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3.3KAmazon Opens Alexa Up To Other Hardware Developers
Amazon’s suite of Echo products could end up at other hardware companies, with the eCommerce giant announcing it’s making its technology available to...
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7.2KAndroid Pay Expands To Mobile Banking Apps
Android Pay announced new partnerships with a handful of banks from around the globe, including Bank of America, USAA, Bank of New...
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2.1KGoogle Home To Support Multiple Users, Ushers In Increased Functionality
Google Home is reportedly gearing up to support multiple users. According to a report, while multiple users aren’t supported on Google Home...
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2.8KIndia’s Flipkart Raises $1.4B From Three Major Players
Flipkart, India’s leading eCommerce marketplace, has raised $1.4 billion from Tencent Holdings, Microsoft and eBay. According to Fortune, this latest round — Flipkart’s biggest...
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4.7KFlow Lands $16M In VC Funding, Wants VC Insight
Flow, a startup that helps companies sell their products around the globe, has raised fresh funding from Forerunner Ventures and Fung Capital....
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5.0KMonzo Announces Banking Restrictions Have Been Lifted
Monzo, an upstart bank in the U.K., announced Wednesday (April 5) that its banking restrictions have been lifted, which means Monzo is...
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4.8KStarbucks iOS App Adds Gifting Via iMessage, Apple Pay
Starbucks is moving ahead full force in its offerings when it comes to technology enhancements. Just recently, the company announced its plans for...
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3.3KStripe of Turkey Iyzico Completes $15M VC Round Of Funding
Iyzico, the Turkish startup that enables eCommerce sites and other apps to accept online payments, completed a $15 million round of fundraising...
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3.7KLloyds To Shrink Size Of Branches, Get Rid Of Service Counter
Lloyds Bank of the U.K. announced it is gearing up to reduce the square footage of hundreds of its branches, and in...
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8.7KWeChat Is Expanding Into Europe, US To Get More High-End Brands On Its Platform
WeChat, the China-based social media and messaging service, is aiming to expand in Europe and the U.S. to develop a payment service...
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3.7KCatching Consumers In Context And How POPcodes Makes It Possible
That the retail world has changed very quickly and fundamentally in the last several years is no longer up for debate. The digital age...
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5.4KAndroid App Revenue To Surpass Apple App Revenue This Year
App Annie, the research firm, is predicting Apple will lose its first place position over Android, based on revenue from mobile apps...
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4.9KData Enablers: Opera Solutions Signals Big Data Value
Big Data may be everywhere, but that doesn’t mean that companies are able to actually get the most out of it in...
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3.1KMicrosoft Enhances Cortana, Gets Access To Android Lock Screen
Microsoft announced this week that Cortana, its voice assistant that it rolled out a year ago on Android and iOS devices in...
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3.5KClarity Money Raises $11M In VC Dollars To Hire, Add Features
Clarity Money, the personal finance app, has reportedly raised $11 million in venture capital funding, which it will use to expand its...
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2.0KGoogle Home Serves Up Beauty and The Beast Ad
Google is using its Google Home internet-connected speaker to serve up ads in what could be the start of showing ads more...
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3.3KUber Updates Driver-Facing App To Make It Easier For Them
Aiming to make it easier for Uber drivers, the company has made big updates to its driver-facing app. According to a report...
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3.6KRingByName Integrates With Amazon Alexa Family of Devices
RingByName, the cloud communications services company, announced Tuesday (March 14) it is the first cloud business phone service to integrate with Amazon’s...
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6.3KPayPal’s Cash To Digital Roadmap
PayPal has had something of a “blink and you just might miss something” of a 2017 — and notably we are only halfway...
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4.2KPayPal Leads $48M Round In Korea’s Viva Republica and Its Toss App
Viva Republica, the developer of the financial services app Toss in Korea, has raised $48 million in a Series C round of...
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4.4KNMB, MasterCard Team For Digital Platform For Farmers In Tanzania
National Microfinance Bank (NMB) announced Thursday (March 9) that it signed a strategic partnership agreement with Mastercard to ensure the digitization of...
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4.8KUber Seeing Employees Look To Leave Over Culture Fit Issues
Uber employees may be losing faith in the startup’s executives, with The Financial Times reporting that recruiters in the Bay Area, as well as executives at...
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2.3KAmazon Inks Deal With Repsol For Delivery Pickup At Gas Stations
eCommerce giant Amazon has reportedly inked a deal with Repsol to enable customers to pickup online orders at gas stations in Spain...
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4.4KUber Aims To Create Content Marketplace On App
Uber is aiming to turn its taxi hailing app into a so-called content marketplace, offering customers potentially a slew of content from...
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6.3KGlobal Mobile Economy Shows No Signs Of Slowdown
The mobile money market is continuing to not only grow, but also have an increasing impact on lives, economies and innovation. This...
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3.9KSimple Rolls Out Shared Accounts After Months Of Testing
Simple, the online bank, announced Tuesday (Feb. 28) the launch of Shared accounts. In a blog post, Simple said it launched the...
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4.6KAnother Messaging App Goes Contextual
Viber, a messaging app, announced on Thursday (Feb. 23) that it will start showing users items that are for sale based on the...
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8.3KUp Goes The mPOS: Market Is Slated To Grow 50 Percent
The global mPOS market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 50 percent between 2016 and 2020, according to a new...
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7.9KDaimler Invests In Phone-Based Financing App AutoGravity
While most manufacuturers seem to be investing in smart car technology these days, Daimler is throwing some of its economic muscle in...
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9.1KAmazon: 43 Percent Of Online Sales In 2016
It’s well known that Amazon has dominated the eCommerce market for years, but a new report shows just how much: Slice Intelligence...
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5.5KShifting Away From the “Payroll Paradigm”
The global reach of the eCommerce marketplace model has opened up income opportunities for people where once none existed. Getting people paid...
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5.1KIndia’s Millennials Dial Up Mobile Shopping
Young adults in India are using their smartphones for shopping online at an increasing rate. According to eMarketer, it’s expected that younger...
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6.4KMobile Payments Tracker: Beacon 3.0
It was but a short time ago beacons were the next big thing. Unlocking the power of mobile location technology, beacons in...
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4.1KFulfillment By Amazon Delivered Over 2 Billion Items
Amazon’s Fulfillment by Amazon service delivered more than 2 billion items around the globe in 2016. In a press release issued Wednesday...
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12.2KMore Holiday Shoppers Made Mobile Purchases This Season
Consumers aren’t just using their mobile devices to browse; they are also making purchases at a higher rate, according to NetElixir. According...
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5.8KeCommerce Did Brisk Business This Holiday Season
Holiday shopping may have gotten off to a slow start with uncertainty surroundings the U.S. election and concerns over the surprise Trump victory,...
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5.6KShoppers Use Mobile For In-Store Comparisons
New data collected in a survey by online and mobile publishing and advertising company Opera Mediaworks back in September reveals interesting trends...
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6.2KSingapore, Thailand Love Instagram, eCommerce
Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia, with its population of over 620 million, is predicted to be the next site of...
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6.2KThe Virtual Barista Is In: Starbucks’ Chatbot
A chatbot is on the horizon for regular users of the Starbucks mobile app. Called My Starbucks Barista, the new technology’s announcement...
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6.5KWhy Wish eCommerce App Works Magic
Last month Wish, the company behind the popular shopping website and eCommerce app of the same name, was found to be raising...
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4.1KGoogle’s Black Friday Mobile Data
The holiday shopping season has finally kicked into high gear — in online stores and brick-and-mortar alike. Recent data from Google show...
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3.4KAmazon To Host eSports Tournament
Amazon continues to bank on the popularity of eSports. The online retail giant recently announced that it will hold its first-ever eSports...
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4.0KPayPal Holiday Predictions? It Will Be The Season That Mobile Made
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — as anyone who has been in a store during the last few weeks...
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Judge: Amazon Must Reimburse Parents For Children’s Charges
They made it too easy. That’s what a federal judge has decided Amazon did, making it too simple for children to purchase...
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5.1KMarketers Focus On Mobile Shopping For The Holidays
The best way to reach a holiday shopper might just be through their smartphone. That’s why marketers will be leveraging mobile in...
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6.0KmVisa’s Mobile Pay Platform Rollout Launched
mVisa’s new mobile pay service is enabling 60 million more consumers to make digital payments on their mobile devices through a rollout on...
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3.8KGoogle Enables Indian Customers To Pay Within Play Store
Google is reportedly enabling customers in India to pay directly from their bank account when using the Google Play Store. According to...
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12.5KWalmart Embraces Chase Pay (And The Rest Of The Mobile Pay Plays This Week)
Walmart and Chase are becoming payments BFFs. In late September, the two firms announced that Walmart and Sam’s Club would flip its...
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10.3KMobile Internet Use Officially Surpasses Desktop
For the first time ever, internet usage on mobile and tablet devices surpassed desktops on a worldwide basis in October, according to...
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3.3KmCommerce Set To Grow At CAGR Of 33.1 Percent
The global mCommerce market is estimated to register robust growth from 2016 to 2022 and is expected to grow at a CAGR...
