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Apple’s In-Store Story, Android Pay Goes Wearable And Samsung Open For Business In Thailand
February 09, 2017

As mobile payments continue their race into the mainstream, land grab expansion seems to have become the name of the game. Summed up in a single word, the theme of the week in mobile was “more” for many of the major mobile movers — more...

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Apple Takes Top Spot In Global Smartphone Market Share
February 02, 2017

Apple’s quarterly report, disclosing all-time high records for iPhone sales in the period that ended in December, helped bring the tech giant to take the number one position in global smartphone market share. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Samsung Finally Shares What Caused Galaxy Note 7 Fiasco
January 23, 2017

On Sunday night (Jan. 22), tech giant Samsung revealed that a combination of rushed manufacturing and smartphone bad batteries resulted in ongoing problems with its Galaxy Note 7 devices late last year. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy...

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The Mobile Card Reader Market Set To Grow At CAGR Of Close To 54 Percent
December 29, 2016

Technavio, the research firm, is forecasting the global mobile card reader market will grow at a CAGR of close to 54 percent from 2017 to 2021. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS...

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The Big Questions For Mobile In 2017
December 29, 2016

Well, the gifts have been opened, the turkey is a memory being celebrated in cold sandwich form this week and the malls are once again full of shoppers — who are now returning what they didn’t like getting and getting themselves the right ones (and whatever else...

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The Year In Mobile Payments
December 22, 2016

Well, another year will soon be one for the history books, and given the type of year 2016 has been, we imagine it will be a chapter future generations will find themselves flipping through repeatedly. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

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As A Nation – We Check Our Phones 9 Billion Times Per Day
December 14, 2016

Deloitte’s newest survey on person-to-person communication is out — and it comes to the wholly unshocking conclusion that our phones are changing who we are. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Samsung To Dole Out Galaxy Note 7 Deathblow
December 12, 2016

The end is near. Samsung announced on Friday (Dec. 9) that a forthcoming software update for Galaxy Note 7s will brick the smartphone model. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Helpshift Leads CRM Industry Into Post-PC Era
November 30, 2016

After weeks of rather anemic activity, investment pacing picked up quite a bit into the period that ended November 25. No more $140 million weeks, as this time around the tally stood at just under $900 million. The preponderance of activity, of course, stood within...