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Tencent’s WeChat Beats Apple Pay To Hong Kong
January 29, 2016

Before Apple could land Apple Pay in China’s growing mobile payments market, China’s second-largest Internet company, Tencent, announced Thursday (Jan. 28) that its WeChat mobile wallet has arrived in Hong Kong. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...

Apple Pay’s Ups And Downs, And Ahrendts’ Happy Retail Results
January 29, 2016

There is an old saying, alternately attributed to Bob Newhart, Tom Lehrer, The New Yorker and the New Statesman that sums up the news about Apple in a post–earnings week: Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

Merchant Innovation
Uber Partners With Nordstrom, Google, SAP On Package Delivery
January 29, 2016

Uber is expanding its delivery service UberRUSH with a string of new partnerships with retail heavyweights, such as Nordstrom, and tech companies, including SAP and Google. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

B2B Payments
Making Invoicing More Mobile
January 29, 2016

Managing cash flow involves managing a lot of moving parts — none more critical than making sure that equipment and supplies come in the door so that people can do their work and also, of course, paying for all that. As in many things B2B, the...

The Bitcoin Banks, Robots And Terrorists Edition
January 29, 2016

In any given week, you’re bound to find a story about bitcoin that makes it look promising, a story that makes it look bad, and a story that reminds us all that bitcoin is just plain off the wall. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

International
Samsung Electronics Sells Off Samsung Card Stake
January 28, 2016

The results are finally and officially in, and Samsung has fallen short of expectations, again, with a chip supply glut presaging tough swimming for at least some corners of the tech world, especially as it’s tied to smartphones. Get the Full Story Complete the form...

Alibaba’s 192 Percent Mobile Revenue Momentum
January 28, 2016

It was pretty obvious based on its Singles’ Day mobile figures that Alibaba had already secured the title for the leader in mobile commerce. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

Retail
How Cigna Is Using Retail To Change Health Care’s Story
January 28, 2016

Shopping has a long and noble track record in making people feel better. It’s why the idiom “retail therapy” exists after all — to describe the tiny, but scientifically demonstrable psychological benefits that actually go along with buying something for the average human being. Get...

A Far Offline Place
January 28, 2016

What’s more offline than the Amish lifestyle? Very few things, English. But that hasn’t stopped some of those characteristically unplugged folk from finding ways to connect into online commerce, providing potential business from an incredibly unlikely source.