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...
In discussions of super apps, a handful of Asian mobile apps such as AliPay, Gojek, Grab and WeChat are often cited as notable examples. Meanwhile, a handful of American multinationals are also increasingly staking a claim for super app status. PayPal, Facebook/WhatsApp and Uber have...
Global consumers want a super app, according to “The Super App Shift,” a PYMNTS and PayPal collaboration based on a survey of 9,904 consumers in Australia, Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. Get the report: The Super App Shift A super app provides a user...
Restaurant customers continue to look for frictionless payment options, but PYMNTS findings reveal that these technologies are becoming less widely available rather than more. By the Numbers Research from the latest edition of PYMNTS’ Restaurant Readiness Index, created in collaboration with Paytronix, which drew from...
Like Scrooge McDuck frolicking in his pile of coins, PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Digital Banking Apps is awash in valuable items. In fact, 15 apps have earned a place on this month’s Top 10 list. Among the highlights to be found on this month’s bank...
A perfect score and a 14-point lead are tough to beat, as proven by the leaders in the PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Buy Now, Pay Later Apps. As they were in the previous edition of this monthly scorecard, Affirm and Klarna are tied with each...
People working in the automotive parts and service industry often need to be able to get information on the go. They may be looking at a customer’s car in the parking lot one minute and checking shelves in the stockroom the next. In each case,...
Consumer-to-business (C2B) payments firm Sionic has debuted CODE Pay, a free mobile app for local merchants to accept real-time, bank-to-bank, lower-cost cash deposits from customers at the point of sale (POS), according to a company press release Tuesday (July 12). “We are excited to give...
Another month has passed, so the streaming apps are ready for their close-up. As happens every 30 days or so, PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Streaming Apps puts the spotlight on these famous apps and gauges their star power based on such factors as channel coverage,...