Google Wallet is rolling out a new experience that gives parents and guardians a way to allow their children to use their Android device to make payments and store passes with appropriate supervision. The company will roll out this update over the next few weeks...
Robinhood has added a prediction markets hub to its app, allowing users to trade on the outcomes of events. The first contracts, which started rolling out Monday (March 17), cover what the upper bound of the target Fed funds rate will be in May and...
Cross-border finance FinTech AstroPay received a payments license in Brazil. The license from the Brazilian central bank allows the company to offer its multicurrency digital wallet in Latin America’s biggest market, AstroPay said in a Thursday (Jan. 30) news release. “This expansion marks a pivotal...
Epic Games will reportedly add third-party games to its marketplace app on Android globally and on Apple iOS in the European Union. “The news is out,” the company said in a Thursday (Jan. 23) post on social platform X. “We’re bringing a bunch of awesome...
The U.K. government said Tuesday (Jan. 21) that it will launch a GOV.UK Wallet later this year and then work to issue government-issued letters and identity documents virtually and make them available to people on their phones. Digital versions of a Veteran Card and a...
Global consumer spending in mobile apps and games reportedly increased 15.7% year-over-year in 2024, even as the number of app downloads decreased by 2.3%. The year’s spending across Apple’s App Store and Google Play reached $127.3 billion, up from $110 billion the previous year, with a decline in Google...
Temu was the most downloaded free app in Apple’s App Store in 2024, Apple said Monday (Dec. 16). The app earned that ranking across iPhone and iPad, Apple said in a Monday press release. In 2023, when Apple broke down its rankings by device, Temu...
The Republican and Democratic leaders of a House select committee said Friday (Dec. 13) that TikTok should sell its app and that Apple and Google should be ready to remove TikTok from their app stores by Jan. 19 if the company does not sell it. Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Mich.,...
The concept behind tokenization is straightforward. Sensitive data (often personal information) is replaced with a non-sensitive, digital representation (token). The simple concept is helping secure consumers’ identities, crafting a digital representation of the user that travels with them throughout their online and in-store journeys and...