Samsung Electronics announced Tuesday (August 21) that Samsung Pay, its digital payments platform, recently passed the mark of more than 1.3 billion transactions globally. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...
Native apps are boring and the web is not dead, said Sir Tim Berners-Lee in November of 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the commercial web. He’s entitled to that opinion: He’s the one, after all, who invented the World Wide Web. Get the Full...
Tencent’s WeChat, which is the leading messaging app in China, has rolled out a digital payment platform in Malaysia in what is its first Asian market outside of China and Hong Kong. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...
The business of music is the business of payment flow, with all that money-moving among consumers, artists, labels and other participants involved providing songs, dance, video and related content to fans. It seems like a criminal understatement to say that that business has changed (and...
The journey of seafood from ocean to table is one of constant danger for the people who make up the fishing industry. Refrigeration technology can fail. Transport can be delayed at borders. Markets and currencies can fluctuate in seemingly strange ways, sucking profit from the...
More than 50 percent: That’s the amount of U.S. bills paid online. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By...
More than 300 prison inmates in Idaho received a quarter million dollars in credits to their JPay accounts by allegedly exploiting a bug in the system. According to a report in the Associated Press citing officials, the credits happened when users placed items in their online shopping...
Ant Financial Services, the Chinese payment affiliate of Alibaba, has created a massive FinTech company that is turning Chinese banking on its head as the sector contends with the disruptive nature of FinTechs. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...
The digital economy doesn’t depend on just numbers and images. Words still matter. Companies need lively product descriptions and online ad copy, along with other textual content that serves to persuade consumers to part with their money. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...
