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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Smartphone maker HTC has launched a new entry-level phone aimed at cryptocurrency users, TechCrunch reported on Monday (Oct. The differentiator is that it includes a hardware wallet and can run a “full Bitcoin node,” which HTC says is a first for a smartphone. “We It also has a 5.7-inch

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Smartphone sales worldwide fell in the fourth quarter of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016, marking the first decline Gartner has seen since the firm started tracking sales in 2004. A little more than 400 million smartphones were sold to consumers in the last three months of 2017, which marks a 5.6

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MARCH 13, 2019

The decline in smartphone demand in China continued last month, with the market suffering its worst month in years as shipments fell in February. According to a report in CNBC , citing the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, mobile phone shipments were 14.51 Smartphone shipments came in at 13.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

will allow consumers use their smartphones to schedule and pay for medical visits, get diagnoses and text with doctors. Mergers and acquisitions in healthcare are second only to those among technology companies. A payment app being launched by health insurer Anthem Inc. CVS Health Corp. and Cigna Corp. . billion.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 8, 2018

That's because most of the daily banking activity has shifted from branches to the smartphone. PREMIUM - When was the last time you went to your bank branch to deposit money? Still thinking? But that's not to say people don’t use bank branches at all. They do, but not for the same reasons as they […].

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

20) launched its Galaxy Fold , a device designed to act as a smartphone or small tablet depending on consumer need. The phone’s release comes at a tough time for smartphone makers, which are facing increasing challenges in getting consumers to upgrade their devices. The smartphone market in China reportedly contracted 9.7

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Driven by demand for the iPhone X, Apple captured 51 percent of the revenue in the world’s wholesale smartphone market. Sales of its iPhones topped more than $60 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017, which was approximately seven times higher than sales of Huawei’s smartphones , MacRumors reported. By comparison, Huawei saw $8.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

In the midst of troubling sales forecasts for Apple and Samsung, smartphone shipments in China dropped by 12-15.5 The China Academy of Information and Communications (CAICT), which is a research institute under the umbrella of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said smartphone shipments fell 15.5

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Lenovo’s 5G PC will have a 24-hour battery life, a 14-inch display, Dolby Atmos sound technology, a fingerprint scanner and an IR camera. Right now, there are more than 340 operators putting money into 5G around the world, he said, including 45 that already offer 5G technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Lenovo’s 5G PC will have a 24-hour battery life, a 14-inch display, Dolby Atmos sound technology, a fingerprint scanner and an IR camera. Right now, there are more than 340 operators putting money into 5G around the world, he said, including 45 that already offer 5G technology.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

The move would essentially beat Apple to the market with smartphones featuring 5G technology, because reports say that Apple is going to wait until 2020 to release the first iPhones featuring the tech. Instead, many predict the company will switch to Intel modems, although that technology won’t be ready for production until late 2019.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

As the coronavirus hampered demand, Apple sold less than 500,000 smartphones in China last month. Canalys and IDC have forecast in the past that overall smartphone shipments would fall approximately 40 percent in Q1 as the outbreak of the coronavirus impacted demand. million from 12.72 million units in February of last year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

New data shows that smartphone shipments in North America have fallen to a five-year low , plummeting 18 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2019. The company narrowed Apple’s lead, shipping 29 percent of North America’s smartphones, compared to 23 percent in the first quarter of 2018. million to 36.4

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

As technology has evolved, so have their tactics.   The dial-up world of the 1990s was a golden age for credit card telephone fraud schemes. The smartphone explosion along with other digital devices and… The post One big idea to turn payments fraud from risk to opportunity appeared first on Accenture Banking Blog.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Perhaps the most telling sign of China’s continued softening smartphone numbers was Apple CEO Tim Cook’s message to investors in early January, citing the decreased demand for phones in the world’s largest market. The top five smartphone vendors’ market share has increased from 73 percent in 2017 to 88 percent in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

The smartphone market declined for the first time ever in 2017, with shipments dropping 4 percent year-over-year, according to market research firm Canalys. The BBC , citing data from Canalys, reported that the decline marks the end of an eight-year period of growth in China’s smartphone market.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

Those technologies come with a disadvantage. Rabbit is hardly alone in its use of automated retail technology. And, with the help of this technology, digital innovators are creating networks of kiosks that disperse chargers to ensure that on-the-go consumers always have power for their phones.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

They tie in to public key storage offerings, and the tech giant has said that the offerings apply to smartphones and software The site maintained that the trademarks may be tied to offering storage for cryptocurrencies.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Worries over security concerns have prevented digital payments from taking off in Japan, but that is starting to change with Japanese smartphone owners indicating interest in mobile payments. percent among smartphone users in Japan that were male. That percentage was 41.3

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

Smartphone growth last year was just 2.7 percent — and while market research firm Garner is projecting that sales of smartphones will jump close to 5% this year, that forecast may prove to be too optimistic given the lack of reasons to upgrade. Barron’s noted shares are down 43 percent this year, presenting a buying opportunity.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

LG Electronics revealed its new 5G smartphone, which boasts a dual screen that will allow users to watch a film on one screen while searching the internet on the other. The company is just the latest smartphone maker to set its sights on 5G. Verizon and Samsung announced in December that they would launch 5G phones in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

trillion in quarterly operating profit, explaining that “stronger smartphone sales and improved utilization in mobile OLED screens were weighed down by continued weakness in the memory chip market.”. The company does have plans to use 5G technology to try to boost its bottom line. The company posted KRW 62 trillion ($53.3

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Stephen Ritter , Mitek's chief technology officer, said gig economy apps are particularly ripe for it due to their popularity. Identity verification has been a point of thorny contention as the world has moved more into the digital age, due to the immense potential for fraud to occur, PYMNTS reported last year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

If the bride and her entourage can’t make it to the store, they can visit the franchise’s website, where the party uses their smartphones to load a 3-D image of a mannequin in a selected wedding or bridesmaid dress. David’s Bridal has countered that disruption with another disruption: augmented reality (AR).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Across the globe, smartphone shipments are anticipated to hover below 1.5 According to International Data Corporation’s WorldWide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, the smartphone market will only grow by 1.6 Innovations in AR/VR may intersect with the smartphone market and force users to upgrade their mobile devices.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In other news, Telefónica plans to experiment with a system based on blockchain technology, enabling individuals to benefit from their personal information, CoinDesk reported. 20) that a new smartphone would have a built-in digital currency feature, MarketWatch reported. Samsung announced on Wednesday (Feb.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Last week, Samsung announced the acquisition of LoopPay, a US-based smartphone payment solution vendor. It has been receiving attention as it may be poised to bring further growth to Samsung’s smartphone. The strength of LoopPay technology is broad versatility.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 5, 2016

Navy Federal Credit Union added a financial calendar to its smartphone app with a new update released this week. The idea began with Navy Federal’s tablet applications and proved valuable to customers there, according to Tim Day, assistant vice president of digital channels at Navy Federal and head of the credit Read More.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Lenovo has reportedly rolled out the first-ever AR smartphone using Google’s depth-sensing technology dubbed Tango. In conjunction with the launch of the new smartphone, Google announced more than 35 new apps for Tango, all of which can be downloaded at the Google Play Store as of now.

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Payments Dive

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Finxact's Dan McKinney believes financial institutions are finally starting to make it easier for consumers to interact with them on a smartphone.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker, is now operating in the U.K. is one of the important global centers for technology,” Wang said in the interview before the Mi 8 Pro was launched. is one of the important global centers for technology,” Wang said in the interview before the Mi 8 Pro was launched.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Yes, India has a rapidly growing base of smartphone users, but most of those are men. The Wall Street Journal reports that millions of Indian women are prevented from owning a smartphone by fathers or husbands who fear that along with the phone comes a dangerous freedom. billion coming from India.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Ravi Shankar Prasad , minister for electronics and information technology, touted the potential of India to become a new world leader for manufacturing mobile phone technology, as he spoke at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday (June 2).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

And in technology rentals, kiosks with rentable chargers are everywhere in China, and companies such as Rabbit are offering them in the United States. The company, for its part, provides furniture to customers in exchange for monthly fees from customers. All this, Today in Data. Data: 2017: The year IKEA bought TaskRabbit.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

In other news, Samsung is planning to launch its blockchain technology onto its budget smartphone. “We Despite its gains, some people are skeptical because XRP does not run a decentralized blockchain, and that it allows the potential reversibility of transactions, according to Cryptovest.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

Citing a bond manager from BlackRock, Reuters reported consumers aren’t spending money on consumer electronics like cameras, radios and TVs, as well as taxis and stores, swapping them out for programs on their iPhones and other high-end smartphones. percent in May compared to last year, marking the smallest increase since May of 2015.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

Philz Coffee is hardly the only quick-service restaurant (QSR) to adopt mobile-ordering technology. Here’s how QSRs from — Starbucks to McDonald’s — are integrating the technology. It’s working toward rolling out these technology upgrades in all of its worldwide locations by the end of 2018. New QSR Offerings. locations.

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