mobile app

Facebook Tracker: Advertising Crackdown

In this week’s Facebook tracker, the social media giant amps up community vibes with its new standalone group video chat Bonfire app,...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Target Stock Falls More Than 3 Percent As It Slashes Prices

Target recently announced it has lowered its prices on thousands of items, a news report which resulted in its stock price falling more...

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Payment Methods

BOA Adds More Customization To Its Mobile App

Bank of America (BOA) announced Wednesday (Sept. 6) it had launched a series of updates to its mobile app to provide more...

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Urban FT Confirms Its Making A Bid To Buy Digiliti Money Group

Urban FT, an industry leading software as a service (SaaS)-based digital banking platform, has confirmed it is in advanced negotiations with Digiliti Money...

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Retail App Tulip Raises $40M In Latest Funding Round

Cloud-based software firm Tulip Retail, which provides a mobile app suite for store associates in retail settings, has raised $40 million in its latest...

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Kohl’s To Debut New eCommerce Facility, Small-Format Stores

Retailer Kohl’s will boost both its brick-and-mortar and eCommerce capabilities this year by adding four small-format, brick-and-mortar locations to its roster of...

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Ridesharing

Uber Driver Tips To Hit $50 Million

Ridesharing mobile app platform Uber rolled out the ability to tip drivers through its app back in June and has already seen positive results...

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Wearables

Igniting Smartwatches One Student At A Time

Despite Tim Cook’s most enthusiastic comments that the Apple Watch is doing “great,” the figures on the ground in the U.S. indicate...

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Facebook Tests eBay’s Daily Deals In Mobile App Marketplace

Facebook has launched a new feature within the Marketplace section on its mobile app, and a selection of eBay’s Daily Deals are...

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Google

Google To Pay Apple As Much As $3B To Be The Default Search Engine

Google has long been a default search on Apple’s iPhone, and in order to keep that from changing, the company is reportedly...

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Innovation

The Great Online Innovation Pile On Of 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Startups are piling onto Facebook,...

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Facebook Quietly Launched Photo-Sharing App In China This Year

Facebook has reportedly entered the market in China, anonymously launching a new photo-sharing app earlier in the year. According to a report, the...

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Wearables

Google Assistant Isn’t Helping Some Android Wear Customers

Google is facing backlash from some Android Wear customers who are complaining that Google Assistant can only do Google searches on their...

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Fashion App ASOS Adds Image Search Feature

Searching by images has become one of the more popular ways to find something online. Whether it’s finding new recipes or new...

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Innovation

Uber Launches In-App Chat Feature

Uber, the ride-hailing company, launched an in-app chat feature Thursday (Aug. 10). According to a report in Mashable with the new feature...

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B2B Payments

IDFC Bank, Zeta Launch Digital Employee Spend Solution

India’s IDFC Bank is broadening its presence in the corporate payments space through a new partnership with digital payments firm Zeta. Reports...

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Legal

App Developers In China File Antitrust Suit Vs. Apple

Apple has been engaging in anti-competitive behavior in China, its largest mobile applications market, according to a lawsuit filed with regulators in...

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Security & Fraud

BoA Testing Samsung Iris Tech For Authentication

Bank of America is reportedly launching a pilot of Samsung Electronics technology that will enable customers to access the mobile banking app...

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Payment Methods

Venmo Rolls Out QR Code Feature To Ease P2P Mobile Payments

Venmo recently launched a new QR code feature to more easily locate friends within its mobile payments app. According to a news report...

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Consumer Finance

Savings App Qapital Adds Checking Account, Debit Card To Its Services

Savings app Qapital is now offering a new checking account and debit card to its customers, in addition to its already existing...

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Mobile Payments

PayPal And Skype Team On Mobile Payments

PayPal, the online payment company that has been striking a flurry of deals in recent weeks, has teamed with Microsoft to enable...

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International

Paytm’s WeChat Ambitions

In rather short order, India has emerged as one of the world’s most competitive battlegrounds for those looking to build the next...

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Today In Data

Today in Data: Mobile App News Breakdown

To be successful in today’s business arena, there’s little to no getting around not having some form of a mobile app. Through...

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Merchant Innovation

Supermarket Food Lion Launches New Mobile App

Supermarket operator Food Lion announced Tuesday (Aug. 1) it launched a new mobile app to make grocery shopping — and saving on grocery...

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Startups

Juvo Raises $40 Million To Expand Into New Markets

Juvo, the San Francisco tech startup that focuses on financial inclusion and helps unbanked consumers in emerging markets improve their standing from...

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Lyft Partners With Amtrak So Users Can Book First, Last Legs Of Trip

Lyft and Amtrak are partnering up so that travelers can book a Lyft trip directly using Amtrak’s mobile app. According to Tech...

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Fraud Prevention

Prosper Gets Rid Of App Designed To Protect Identities

Prosper Marketplace, the online lender, is reportedly getting rid of its Prosper Daily mobile app, which enabled customers to monitor their personal...

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Security & Fraud

VPN Apps Removed From Apple’s China App Store

Apple has reportedly removed VPN apps from its store in China. Virtual private networks (VPNs) could enable users to access China’s uncensored...

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The Missing ‘M’ In Facebook Messenger

Some of our most important innovations have happened by accident. In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming left his lab for vacation without cleaning up....

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Groupon And The Big Business Of Beauty

Beauty is and always has been one of humanity’s favorite topics. English poet Thomas Overbury famously observed that it is only skin...

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Ridesharing

Uber Revamps Driver Support System

In an attempt to retain its drivers and recruit new ones, Uber is revamping its driver support system. According to news from Recode,...

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B2B Payments

Indonesian FinTech Launches App For Individual SME Investors

An Indonesia-based alternative lender is turning to the mobile device to attract small business investors. Reports Friday (July 21) said Mitrausahua Indonesia...

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B2B Payments

BofA Allows SMEs To Apply For A Loan Through Mobile App

Bank of America (BoA) is expanding its mobile service for small- and medium-sized (SME) customers. An announcement by the financial institution (FI)...

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Dote Raises $7.2M For Mobile Shopping App Aiming To Compete With Amazon

A newly launched retail app called Dote has raised $7.2 million in a venture capital funding round to compete with Amazon in...

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Wells Fargo Launching Mobile App Feature So Users Can Track Subscriptions

Wells Fargo is launching a feature on its mobile app that will allow its customers to find where they’ve shared their payment...

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Google

Google Rebrands Google Now To Feed

Google’s Google Now, which provides mobile users information about things they are interested in, has rebranded the feature as Google Feed. According...

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Banking

Urban FT Acquires iParse To Bridge The Mobile Banking Gap

When it comes to mobile banking, there’s often a massive gap between the consumer’s experience with a big bank and with a...

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Say Hello To The New Retail Intermediary

“There is also no question that doing business with [XXX] can give a supplier a fast, heady jolt of sales and market...

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Mastercard

Bicycle, Bicycle — Why People Want To Ride Mobike’s Bicycle

Bike-sharing has become big business worldwide in a relatively short span of time. Virtually unheard of even a few years ago, these...

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Banking

In Land Of Free Banking Apps, Red Ink And Investor Support Only Go So Far

Upstarts are trying to eat traditional banks’ lunch, especially in Europe. But the field is a crowded one, awash in red ink. Will...

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Investments

Stash Raises $40M In New Round Of Venture Funding

Stash, a startup headquartered in New York that enables consumers to save up small amounts of money through micro-investing, has landed $40 million...

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UpKeep Helps Facilities Maintenance Go Digital

Some innovative entrepreneurs are just born that way. They were the kids who founded lemonade stands before they could count or make lemonade by themselves...

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BillMo Now Top Free Finance App In Mexico In Google Play Store

BillMo, a U.S.-based company providing a low-cost money transfer and mobile wallet application, is now the No. 1-ranked free financial app in...

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Cash

Idea Bank Is Driving ATM Innovation — Literally, In A BMW

Cash is one of the more underrated players in the payments and commerce ecosystem. It’s often declared dead, innovators of all stripes...

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Google

Google’s Big Mobile Moves In India

Over the last 18 months, India has moved full-speed ahead from a nearly entirely cash-based society to one with ambitions of being...

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Credit Card Management App Tally Launches In Several States

Tally, an app that helps pay and organize credit cards, has officially launched and is now available to half of all U.S....

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Apple

IKEA Moves Into AR Furniture With Apple Partnership

Following its Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple has another announcement. The tech giant recently shared its new partnership with IKEA and is moving forward...

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Protein Bar And Kitchen Customers Earn Loyalty Points No Matter How They Pay

Like the ingredients in its wraps, salads and bowls, the Protein Bar and Kitchen is staying fresh. It’s got a new mobile...

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