Leading mobile order-ahead apps see the competition for the top spot dwindle in this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps. With a proprietary combination of publicly available information and app usage data to which PYMNTS has access, we rank restaurants’ mobile order-ahead...
Tikkie, a payment app offered by Dutch bank ABN AMRO, has launched a new group payments feature called “Groepie,” aiming to give users an easier way to track and settle costs from group outings. According to a company blog post published Monday (Aug. 15), the...
Status quo was the theme amid the personal loan provider apps, in PYMNTS’ latest reading … at least for the most part. At least if you’re looking at the top five contenders. The Top 5: Song Remains the Same MoneyLion maintains its top spot in...
Mobile wallets are catching on — especially for in-store commerce. There’s a significant greenfield opportunity out there for the various “Pays,” and Apple — specifically, Apple Pay — is taking significant market share. As noted in the recent report, “Mobile Wallets Adoption: Apple Pay @8...
As it deals with a growing financial crisis, Nigeria is preparing to implement a 5% tax on voice calls, text messages and mobile data. As Bloomberg News reported Friday (Aug. 12), Nigerian Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed announced the tax in a statement outlining the country’s...
Robinhood, the popular brokerage app, will lay off about 23% of its staff as customers slow down trading, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) wrote Tuesday (Aug. 2). This is the second time the company has made a round of layoffs this year, following a cut...
Apple Pay extended its commanding lead over the mobile wallet competition in the last 12 months, now capturing 48% of all in-store mobile wallet payments in the United States, with second place Google Pay far behind at 17%. However, mobile wallets remain unpopular for in-store...
“The Super App Shift: How Consumers Want To Save, Shop And Spend In The Connected Economy,” a report recently published by PYMNTS, defines a “super app” as one providing “a user interface through which consumers can shop, order food, check social media, bank and so...
Spotify has stopped making Car Thing, its in-car smart player, the streaming company said in its earnings report Wednesday (July 27). According to the report, Spotify missed its gross margins in the second quarter of 2022, saying they were “negatively impacted by our decision to...