As part of the ongoing separation of Airtel Africa’s mobile money business from the parent telecommunications company, Airtel Kenya’s division has become the latest to spin off its mobile money services and will now be operated under a separate legal entity. In an interview with...
On Oct. 20, 2014, Apple launched Apple Pay, an ambitious vision to revolutionize payments mobility and security. The product promised to replace cards at the point of sale with digital wallets conveniently located in their iPhones. PYMNTS estimates that more than three-quarters of major United...
Technology makes everything easier. Except when it doesn’t work — and then makes everything harder. And if there is any indication that a “digital first” but not “digital only” mindset might be an optimal one, even in the post-pandemic world, one need no farther than...
Samsung Electronics will launch its Samsung Wallet in 11 new markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) before the end of the year, the company announced in a Friday (Oct. 14) press release. The digital wallet will also become available in Kazakhstan and...
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, saw its operating losses triple in 2021, ballooning to more than $7 billion as the company spent to fuel its growth. That’s according to a Thursday (Oct. 6) report by The Wall Street Journal, citing an internal financial...
Google unveiled a suite of new products Thursday (Oct. 6), including its first-ever watch and phones priced lower than the ones offered by market leaders Apple and Samsung. Announced in a company blog post, the products include Google’s Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro phones,...
When PYMNTS assessed the landscape of digital payments in Italy for the “Benchmarking the EU’s Digital Engagement” series, it was observed that the country sits around the middle of the table for mobile wallet usage. In fact, Italians use the payment method for 42.1% of...
Once again, DoorDash remains far and away the top-performing aggregator, with competitors not even coming close in this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Aggregators. The ranking leverages a proprietary combination of publicly available information as well as app usage data to which PYMNTS has...
Whether it’s flu season or your everyday medications, prescription apps are saving people money, and that makes PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Prescription Apps a must read. That’s our opinion of course, but this latest tally finds an interesting mix of apps holding tight to their...