- May 22, 2023
The CE 100 Index gained 2.3% as artificial intelligence (AI) sparked investor enthusiasm and the earnings season continued to wind down for the March quarter.
This past week’s performance brought the ...
- February 27, 2023
Progress is sequential, and nowhere is that growing more apparent than with 5G’s global rollout.
A rollout that’s been plagued by fits and starts.
This, as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) relayed ...
- January 26, 2022
British technology communications company Vodafone has announced that it will begin the retirement of its legacy 3G network next year as part of the company’s strategy to “improve the 4G ...
- July 26, 2021
In today’s top news, Mastercard and Lloyds Bank have teamed up to launch a new open banking API for merchants and consumers. Plus, big tech companies are looking to expand ...
- July 23, 2021
Vodafone could spin off its popular African mobile money service M-Pesa, the company’s CEO told Bloomberg News on Friday (July 23).
M-Pesa, which offers peer-to-peer transactions in countries that include Kenya, ...
- June 16, 2021
In today’s top payments news worldwide, Checkout.com has acquired Icefire, while Bringg has raised $100 million in an Insight Partners-led funding round. Plus, Vodafone and Amazon Web Services collaborate to ...
- June 16, 2021
Vodafone and Amazon Web Services are partnering to bring so-called “edge computing” to business customers in the U.K. Edge computing quickly analyzes bulk data — collected from, say, the factory ...
- May 19, 2021
Vodafone has rolled out “business boosting packages” in partnership with Wix, a website creation platform, according to a press release.
The packages will give small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) a way ...
- April 26, 2021
Two wireless service providers are seeking telecom licenses in Ethiopia, which is the fastest-growing economy in Africa and a place with a largely untapped telecommunications market. That’s according to Bloomberg ...
- October 8, 2020
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is calling for additional government assistance to women and younger workers affected by COVID-19, based on an analysis of anonymized customer activity during shutdowns provided ...
- September 3, 2020
Verizon and Amazon may invest more than $4 billion in India’s Vodafone Idea mobile carrier – and negotiations around a deal could begin imminently, The Mint reported on Thursday (Sept. 3).
Attributing ...
- July 12, 2020
Vodafone, the U.K.-based telecom giant, has run into trouble making payments to vendors in India, according to Sputnik News.
The company’s Indian operation, Vodafone Idea, is facing “capital constraints” and has ...
- June 26, 2020
It’s the end of the work week, and the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you didn’t miss anything with the latest in payments and commerce news. We have ...
- June 26, 2020
In today’s top news, Peter Hazlehurst, head of Uber Money, has resigned, and Brussels will investigate Germany’s financial regulatory authority over failing to supervise Wirecard. Plus, Amazon plans to acquire ...
- June 26, 2020
If you can’t join ‘em, beat ‘em. That seems to be the prevailing attitude behind 5G, as several car companies have taken the delay in building mass networks for the ...
- April 6, 2020
Safaricom, Kenya’s telecommunications giant, and the South African mobile communications company Vodacom have completed the acquisition of the M-PESA brand, along with its product development and support services, from Vodafone ...
- January 22, 2020
In today’s top news, Grab, Razer, AirAsia and CIMB join other companies considering applying for one of five digital banking licenses in Malaysia, and Vodafone leaves the Libra Association. Also, ...
- January 21, 2020
Another company has left the Libra Association, a conglomerate of companies meant to help get Facebook’s cryptocurrency off the ground and handle regulatory initiatives and acceptance measures, according to reports ...
- October 9, 2019
Vodafone has announced it is shutting down 15 percent of its 7,700 stores in Europe, according to Reuters.
CEO Nick Read said the company will also upgrade some of the remaining ...
- October 8, 2019
Vodafone, which is part of the Facebook Libra Association, a conglomeration of 27 different companies meant to guide the proposed cryptocurrency to fruition, is asking for the appointment of a ...
- June 12, 2019
Vodafone, the U.K. telecom company, is enabling customers to make and receive phone calls via an Amazon Echo Speaker with Alexa, its digital voice assistant, built in.
According to a report ...
- May 24, 2019
Kenya’s Safaricom has announced that it is partnering with Vodacom to acquire the intellectual property rights to the M-Pesa mobile financial services platform.
Last year Safaricom launched a new Bonga platform, ...
- May 13, 2019
Investors have pulled about $1.8 billion from a supply chain investment fund operated by GAM and Greensill, reports in Financial News said Friday (May 10).
The GAM Greensill Supply Chain Finance ...
- May 6, 2019
There is a tendency when talking about the Internet of Things (IoT) — and all the miraculous things it will power in the future — to lose sight of the ...
- April 30, 2019
The U.K.’s Chartered Institute of Credit Management has removed or suspended a total of 17 companies from the Prompt Payment Code, a move likely to cause further doubt over whether ...
- March 19, 2019
Vodafone Group has invested in a fund that makes money by paying suppliers late.
The company invested €1 billion ($1.1 billion USD) into the €2.4 billion GAM-Greensill Supply Chain Fund, run by GAM Holding ...
- November 8, 2017
Vodafone announced news on Tuesday (Nov. 7) of its entrance into the Internet of Things (IoT) consumer market through the launch of “V by Vodafone.”
“V by Vodafone” enables consumers ...
- July 13, 2017
More than half the world’s mobile money deployments are coming from a perhaps unexpected source: Sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in a way, that balance makes sense. Mobile money deployments give unbanked ...
- May 29, 2017
Millions more smartphone users in Africa will now have access to basic banking services like borrowing and saving as the popular mobile financial service platform M-Pesa expands to cover more ...
- March 21, 2017
With technology companies and telecom players battling it out for supremacy in India, the market just got more competitive after Vodafone, a U.K. carrier, announced it was combining its India ...
- October 11, 2016
Consumers in the U.K. can now use contactless payments with Android smartphones thanks to a partnership between Vodafone and PayPal. Only Visa and Mastercard accounts could be used previously, but ...
- June 30, 2016
MasterCard and Vodafone have secured a new deal that will have MasterCard powering Vodafone Egypt mobile money service, Vodafone Cash.
As part of this pair up, MasterCard has moved 2 million Vodafone ...
- February 25, 2016
“Mobile Is Everything.”
That was the theme of Mobile World Congress 2016.
And as MPD CEO Karen Webster wrote in her column this week: “Mobile is everything because just about everyone in ...
- February 22, 2016
“Consumer Choice” is PayPal’s mantra, brought to life last week as it unveiled a redesigned app that put what customers use and want most right up front.
And today (Feb. 22), ...
- February 18, 2016
Vodafone and TransferTo, a company specializing in international airtime credit and mobile money transmissions, said Wednesday (Feb. 17) that they are working together to enable real-time global money transfers via ...
- February 15, 2016
A new contactless payment method is making its way to European Vodafone customers through a new partnership.
Late last week, NFC World+ reported that Vodafone is teaming up with online payments provider PayPal ...
- November 17, 2015
Vodafone Wallet users with MasterCard cards can now add that payment option into their mobile wallet to make contactless payments for goods and services across Europe within weeks, Vodafone announced ...
- August 4, 2015
Vodafone and Powa Technologies have paired up on a new initiative in the U.K. that allows consumers to pay at they go by topping up mobile credit using QR codes.
Through ...
- July 10, 2015
M-Pesa’s mobile wallet is now an eligible payment option at Walmart India thanks to a partnership Vodafone India has secured with the retailer, The Economic Times reported.
This deal allows business members ...
- April 22, 2015
The two biggest mobile money operators in East Africa have joined forces.
Yesterday (April 21), Vodafone M-Pesa and MTN Mobile Money announced an agreement to interconnect their mobile money services, allowing ...
