El Salvador’s Chivo digital wallet has largely failed as a digital wallet for cryptocurrency, but it just might succeed as a dollar debit app for unbanked citizens. The Chivo Wallet is President Nayib Bukele’s $425 million experiment to convince many citizens to use bitcoin after...
Video sharing platform TikTok has provided Republican lawmakers with a more detailed plan on how it plans to keep its user data in the U.S. out of reach of its Chinese owner ByteDance. As the New York Times reported Friday (July 1), CEO Shou Zi...
Looking for a better form of communication between patients and healthcare providers? Take a look at the following 10 options and contact them in the morning. In this latest edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Telemedicine Apps, there’s information about solutions that may provide the...
If you’re looking for coupon apps, we’ve got a deal for you. How about 13 for the price of 10? In the latest edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Coupon Apps, 13 contenders have earned a place in the Top 10. With three tied scores...
Chinese social media app WeChat is reportedly banning accounts associated with cryptocurrency and NFTs. According to the report, none of the over 1 billion WeChat users will be allowed to discuss anything related to digital assets. The details of the ban apparently indicate that any...
It’s gone down to the wire again in PYMNTS’ latest Provider Ranking of Gig Economy Apps, as the scores of the leader and the runner-up are just one point apart. They and the other six top-ranked apps hold the same positions in the rankings as...
The super app offers a digital front door for a range of activities — from banking and investing to insurance, peer-to-peer (P2P) and beyond. In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, João Vitor Menin, CEO of Inter&Co., told Webster that bringing Brazil’s super app —...
Twitter will be debuting “Branded Likes” next week, letting brands make custom animations to help their engagement on the social media giant, according to a tweet from the company Wednesday (June 22). The tweet gives an example from the new “Scream” movie, in which users...
Category leaders are forced to share the crown with a new entrant into the No. 1 spot in this month’s edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps. Each month, using a proprietary combination of publicly available information and app usage data to which...