- December 6, 2023
Mastercard and Samsung Electronics have partnered on a new program called Wallet Express in the United Kingdom.
This collaboration aims to provide banks and card issuers with an efficient way to expand their digital wallet offerings, ...
- November 30, 2023
The Bank of Korea plans to launch a pilot program for its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The program will involve 100,000 selected South Korean citizens ...
- November 16, 2023
Samsung has reportedly disclosed a year-long breach of its systems, which resulted in unauthorized access to the personal data of customers who made purchases at its U.K. store.
The breach occurred ...
- November 13, 2023
As the payments ecosystem continues to evolve, it is missing just one key element.
That element? A single source of truth in the form of a dynamic digital identity that can ...
- November 8, 2023
Samsung reportedly hopes to introduce “Gauss” to the likes of Grok, Ernie and ChatGPT.
Gauss is the name of the generative artificial intelligence (AI) model the smartphone giant is testing in-house, ...
- November 1, 2023
Apple has reached a significant milestone in the Indian smartphone market by recording its highest-ever quarterly shipments in the third quarter.
Surpassing 2.5 million units, Apple’s achievement comes at a time when ...
- October 19, 2023
Frictionless commerce company Skipify says it has landed new funding from Samsung’s investment group.
The company says the investment by Samsung Next, announced Thursday (Oct. 19), will let Skipify accelerate the development of its digital wallet.
“We invested in ...
- October 6, 2023
Samsung is expanding its efforts in health and wellness technologies through new collaborations with universities and academic hospitals.
The company launched an Open Innovation Initiative that aims to revolutionize the digital ...
- October 6, 2023
Samsung has partnered with global identity technologies provider IDEMIA to bring mobile driver’s licenses and state IDs to Samsung Wallet.
Arizona and Iowa will be the first states to offer a ...
- August 25, 2023
Samsung is looking to cement its role in consumers’ day-to-day food routines, gearing up to launch an artificial intelligence (AI) food recommendation platform.
The South Korea-based company will introduce its “Samsung ...
- May 16, 2023
Samsung is reportedly working with the Bank of Korea on a central bank digital currency (CBDC).
The consumer tech firm has signed an agreement known as a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with South Korea’s ...
- February 27, 2023
Consumers worldwide are reportedly flocking more and more to iPhones over Android devices.
That shift, driven by younger consumers, could give Apple the same global market dominance it already captured in ...
- November 17, 2022
Amid a broader trend of consumers trimming retail box subscriptions, streaming entertainment looks to be a defiant holdout. Not only has it held onto the attention and budget allocation of ...
- October 17, 2022
Today in the connected economy, Mastercard begins a new phase of its collaboration with cryptocurrency platform Paxos by offering banks help in improving their crypto offerings. Plus, Samsung brings its ...
- October 17, 2022
Today in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Coinbase has hired a new managing director for EMEA, and Samsung is launching its digital wallet in 11 new markets.
Coinbase Picks ...
- October 17, 2022
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 ...
- September 5, 2022
Samsung was the victim of a cybersecurity breach in late July, which saw United States customers’ personal information exposed.
Customers’ names, contact information, demographic details, dates of birth and product registration ...
- June 22, 2022
Samsung Inc. is offering a product called “Samsung Money by Sofi,” which features no overdraft, convenience or account management fees.
According to a sign-up offer on the company’s website, “Samsung Money ...
- June 16, 2022
In today’s FinTech news, Vueling will be the first low-cost airline in Europe to accept cryptocurrencies as a payment method. Plus, Samsung’s new digital wallet merges Pay and Pass and ...
- May 3, 2022
Today in the connected economy, Samsung makes a deal with Dish to sell equipment for its soon-to-launch American 5G network.
Also, restaurant software firm Toast launches a tool for hotel restaurants, ...
- May 3, 2022
Samsung has inked a multi-year deal to sell equipment to Dish for its American 5G network.
As Reuters reported Tuesday (May 3), the agreement marks one of Samsung’s largest radio deals ...
- March 7, 2022
A breach at Samsung Electronics exposed source code for its Galaxy smartphones as well as internal company data — but no personal information was stolen, according to multiple media reports ...
- February 11, 2022
Google is asking a judge to reverse the fine it received last year from South Korea’s competition regulator after the tech giant tried to force the country’s phone makers to ...
- February 10, 2022
Samsung held a glittery launch event for its new flagship Galaxy S22 phone with something new: A preorder button to let attendees buy it in real life. In terms of ...
- January 25, 2022
In today’s FinTech News, Samsung taps biometrics for payments secured by users’ fingerprints, while Huawei tackles contactless payments with Curve via a digital wallet with integrated cards. Spotify, meanwhile, is ...
- January 10, 2022
If the metaverse is to be the next big thing for brand building, companies are going to have to do a lot more than sell nonfungible tokens (NFTs) of Nike ...
- January 7, 2022
Scaled back and stripped-down, yet brash and defiant as always, the annual Las Vegas tech fest known as CES is loath to disappoint, given its something-for-everyone array of things you ...
- January 6, 2022
Samsung has planted its flag in the metaverse with the launch of 837X, a virtual version of its flagship New York City experience center.
“Samsung 837X is a fully immersive experience, ...
- January 3, 2022
Samsung is integrating a nonfungible token (NFT) platform to its 2022 smart TV lineup that includes the Micro LED, Neo QLED and The Frame, according to a press release Monday ...
- December 29, 2021
Samsung Group is in talks to buy the American drugmaker Biogen, according to published reports Wednesday (Dec. 29).
Biogen has apparently approached the South Korean company to purchase its shares, which ...
- December 7, 2021
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Tuesday (Dec. 7) announced that it will combine its mobile and consumer electronics divisions under a pair of new co-chief executive officers, who will replace ...
- November 3, 2021
Samsung SmartThings has become the latest manufacturer of smart home devices to incorporate the new connectivity protocol Matter, enabling users to control enabled devices using select Samsung products.
With this announcement, ...
- October 18, 2021
Apple, Google and Samsung are showing their connected economy cards as the tech giants unveil new devices and services embracing voice, connected homes and possibly wearables.
Samsung seems to be taking a lead ...
- September 1, 2021
Samsung fired its latest shot across the bow of wearables category leader Apple on Aug. 26 with the launch of its Samsung Galaxy Watch 4. Are the wearables wars heating ...
- August 16, 2021
To get your digital currency into the hands of millions, make the point of interaction as familiar, as broad and as wide as possible.
The battle in crypto-land seems to be ...
- August 6, 2021
Sales for China’s smartphone Xiaomi escalated 26 percent, effectively booting Samsung and Apple out of their top spots, according to media reports.
The sales for Xiaomi marked the first time a ...
- June 8, 2021
The U.S. saw a surge in the PC market as work-from-home continued in the first quarter of 2021, a Canalys study found, according to a press release.
The market grew 73 ...
- May 18, 2021
Google and Samsung plan to team up to release a new smartwatch operating system (OS), Yahoo Finance reported.
The OS will be called WearOS and will combine Google’s OS with that ...
- April 29, 2021
Worldwide shipments of smartphones hit 347 million in the first quarter of 2021, a 27 percent increase year over year.
That’s according to a report released Thursday (April 29) by tech ...
- March 10, 2021
With commercial card adoption continuing to climb, service providers are exploring new ways to help businesses overcome adoption barriers and embrace new scenarios to use their corporate cards.
This week’s Commercial ...
