PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

While Alexa is a huge presence at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Amazon has been using the popular gathering for another purpose – an opportunity to meet with third-party sellers and promote a new seller support service called marketplace growth. It has three tiers that cost between $2,500 and $5,000 per month.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Also, Amazon leads the pack in Europe’s expanding smart home market. Amazon Unseats Google in Fast-Growing EU Smart Home Market. Amazon’s Fire TV led the way in top smart home entertainment choices in 2019, although more new players are expected to join the crowded field. Europe’s smart home market growth increased 18.1

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JUNE 10, 2022

Regulators must therefore balance the need for stability and regulatory control with the need to allow innovation in the crypto marketplace. Already, Stablecoin issuers and crypto exchanges have paired off in the marketplace as shown below: Stablecoin Exchange. Stablecoin Issuer. Stablecoin. BUSD and USDP.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

The Travelers Companies announced 11 new states where eligible customers can receive a smart home kit discount via the insurance firm’s first digital Amazon storefront. This unique offering helps customers better protect their homes, and provides our independent agents with an innovative way to differentiate themselves in the marketplace.”.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Smart Cities and 5G Threats. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continued to auction 5G bandwidth in December of 2019, with FCC Chairman Ajit Pai stating, “Pushing more spectrum into the commercial marketplace is a key component of our 5G FAST plan to advance American leadership in the next generation of wireless connectivity.”.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Amazon is also offering substantial discounts on smartphones, home appliances, smart gadgets and many other product categories, according to The Indian Express. It was also hailed as a hedge against Amazon’s runaway marketplace growth. According to Marketplace Pulse, in 2020 so far, more than 15,000 new sellers joined the platform.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2019

Samsung is introducing a marketplace for Bixby, the company’s voice assistant, despite its relatively unknown name when stacked against the likes of Alexa, Siri and Cortana. . Also in the marketplace are things like staff picks, reviews and different categories based on the capsule someone would want.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Smart operators are figuring out how to integrate payments into not only the workforce, but also the workflow. A growing marketplace operator is targeting sales to cash-strapped consumers — and offering zero-interest, debit-based loans at the point of sale. percent: Year-over-year revenue jump for companies using AI.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

Earlier this year, XinFin announced it is joining the R3 Corda marketplace, which will host several XinFin enterprise blockchain apps, including its invoice financing solution. The company will also link corporates to real-time remittance, trade finance, digital asset management and other financial management apps on R3 Corda. ”

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Consumers not only want digital payment methods from utility companies, they are also engaging with companies via apps like Nest that track power usage from smart meters, smart thermostats and connected appliances to provide insights into consumption and potentially save customers money.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Cellulant ’s Agrikore and Tingg Marketplace offerings, for instance, seek to take on the continent’s food struggles. Agrikore, in one case, provides a smart-contracting, payments and marketplace system that is based on the blockchain. However, before we feed the world, we will need to feed ourselves as a continent.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Plus, Apple, Amazon, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are teaming up to make smart homes interoperable. Apple, Amazon, Google Team to Make Smart Homes Interoperable. The new protocol will make smart home devices more compatible for consumers and easier for manufacturers to develop. Uber’s Gig Platform, Uber Works, Debuts in Miami.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

After investing in over 800 firms, Chinese tech company Tencent Holdings said it would bolster its international investments and in industries like “smart retail.” However, with the development of Tencent’s WeChat mini-app ecosystem and payment platform, we will pay more attention to smart retail and payment platforms in future.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The new payment solution will have the security of next-generation smart terminals, and the application marketplace will be Android-based. AEVI and Vantiv’s marketplace solution is the first to run on multiple hardware platforms, said the companies. We are very excited to partner with Vantiv,” said Mike Camerling of AEVI.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

US-based smart debit card provider Wedge has partnered with B2B financial marketplace Fiserv to access the latter’s real-time fintech ledger and debit issuing capabilities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Fraudsters have flocked to online marketplaces with the same zeal as legitimate consumers, taking full advantage of such platforms’ anonymity and transaction speeds. Fraud’s consequences can cripple marketplaces, bringing disaster to more than their bottom lines. The static verification problem. AI’s role in sharing verification.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

Worldline and CashSentinel will work on services that will fit requirements for traditional online marketplaces for physical products, franchise systems, self-checkout solutions and smart city apps.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

The trend was reinforced this week by a half-year status report from footwear resale marketplace StockX. The end of the first half of the year also marks 10 million lifetime trades for the marketplace. “As is the case for any live marketplace, real-life events have ramifications on market performance. . Now that is safe.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Walmart Teams With HomeValet On Smart Box Tech For Deliveries. Walmart is teaming up with delivery solutions startup HomeValet to launch a test pilot that would bring fresh groceries to people’s homes in smart boxes that can store frozen, refrigerated and pantry items at three different controlled temperature ranges.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

That focus isn’t unwarranted, as there are 75 million millennials, and the older half of that generation (the group PYMNTS has termed Bridge Millennials ) is much more likely than the average consumer to own a smart device, and more likely to use it to make a purchase. It’s fertile — and potentially revenue-rich — ground to tap.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Amazon, according to recent data from Canalys , is also the leader in the global market in terms of the number of units shipped during the second quarter of 2019, but Alphabet has lost its long-held second-place spot to Chinese smart speaker manufacturer Baidu. million smart speaker units – slightly edging out Google, which only shipped 4.3

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AUGUST 21, 2017

Facebook’s Marketplace is expanding across Europe to serve 17 more countries: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. presidential election, when 300 violent incidents were reported through the bot.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Apple bought AI firm Xnor for $200 million, edging out Microsoft, Amazon and Intel for the 2-year-old Seattle-based firm that makes smart devices smarter by running machine learning technologies on edge devices. How AI Helps Marketplaces Fight Off-Platform Fraud. Apple Makes $200M Acquisition In Race For AI Dominance.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Ranging from consumer robots for household cleaning and maintenance to smart lighting or home security/monitoring systems, connected consumers are adopting these solutions in their homes and everyday lives as they go through their own digital transformation.” percent.

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JULY 16, 2020

6 spot and has been making smart moves post-pandemic. 10 for this Provider Ranking is mobile-first marketplace OfferUp. Target scored the No. It’s followed by Japanese eCommerce app Mercari at No. 7, international B2C fast-fashion eCommerce platform SHEIN occupying No. 8, indomitable Nike swooshing in at No.

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MARCH 14, 2017

While Amazon’s Echo and Google Home square off in the voice-activated marketplace, Apple’s Siri gears up to function in vehicles and PCs, and Samsung shells out $215 million for virtual assistant startup VivLabs, one Singapore tech startup is approaching the matter from a different angle.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Facebook tries out third-party Marketplace deals from eBay, an automated news aggregator, and veteran executive Andrew Bosworth in the leading role of its new consumer hardware department. Facebook has teamed up with eBay to introduce Daily Deals within the Marketplace section of its mobile app.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The European banking app Monese has formed a partnership with cross-border deposits marketplace Raisin, as reported on Tuesday (Sept. Customers can use Raisin ’s cross-border deposits marketplace to look for the best rates and find the products that best fit their needs. Customers of Monese in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

25) that it’s launching as, what it claims to be, the first inventory finance marketplace in the U.K., InventoryClub deploys smart contracts, dubbed Inventory Finance Agreements, to facilitate the financial agreements. “We In this post-Brexit era, we believe the Commonwealth can become a valuable marketplace for U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Smart home technology can make offices smarte, too, and RingByName is a leader in realizing this.”. In November, shopping for Alexa skills , or capabilities that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive fashion, had been made easier to do after Amazon gave the skills marketplace an overhaul.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Online marketplace eBay is getting into the home installation market in a bigger way, announcing news on Monday (November 12) of new partnerships with Handy , Porch and InstallerNet. The option to book the installation service can be found at checkout.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

The seasonal goods firm behind the seasonal shop, Halloween City, has decided that it will be selling its costumes for the spooky season on Amazon’s marketplace for the first time. Party City is not the first retailer by a long shot to join the Amazon Marketplace party – and for obvious reasons.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Mastercard is partnering with Samsung to bring digital technology to emerging markets and accelerate connectivity and smart devices, Mastercard said on Thursday (March 12). Mastercard Labs created the platform, which will be rolled out to the Samsung Knox team in the Middle East and Africa early this year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Our customers want that, our marketplace sellers want that, and so do we.”. Amazon Echo Smart Speakers Outselling Google Home. The Amazon Echo smart home speaker is outselling Google Home by a wide margin. Amazon is the sales leader in the smart speaker market, capturing 36.6 percent of the smart speaker market with 10.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

Stasher, a luggage “sharing economy solution” debuting in 2015, utilizes a marketplace and app that coordinates travelers, convention goers and tourists with area businesses such as shops and hotels that can temporarily store their luggage. Popular luggage storage app Stasher has secured another $2.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

For instance, Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance unveiled a new working group to promote the adoption of a new, royalty-free connectivity standard to make smart home products more compatible with security as a design tenet. 18 announcement. 18 announcement. Google’s Move.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The “smart coding” capability, as Basware described it, identifies where costs should be allocated and accurately codes the invoice. Our customers are always inspiring us to improve and deliver innovations that drive measurable value for their organizations, and smart coding is a direct result of that.”.

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