Payments company Klarna says it is getting into the mobile business. The company on Wednesday (June 18) announced plans to launch an “unlimited” phone plan in the U.S. in the weeks ahead before bringing it to the U.K., Germany and other countries. “Klarna has saved consumers time and money,...
Companies in the FinTech sector are making inroads into the telecom world. That’s according to a report Sunday (May 4) by the Financial Times (FT), pegged to the recent announcement from neobank Revolut that it was launching a mobile service. As covered here last week,...
Travel agents have long gone the way of video store clerks, and consumers haven’t walked into an airport or hotel to make a flight or room reservation in more than a generation. Booking travel, whether a short Uber ride across town or vacation abroad, first...
Mobile phones have long been our go-to cameras, atlases, encyclopedias, newspapers, calculators, clocks, calendars and, occasionally, telephones. It was only a matter of time before they became the preferred storefront of consumers worldwide. At least that’s the conclusion of the “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index” from...
February 18, 2025
Mobile phones have long been our go-to cameras, atlases, encyclopedias, newspapers, calculators, clocks, calendars and, occasionally, telephones. It was only a matter of time before they became the preferred storefront of consumers worldwide. At least that’s the conclusion of the “2025 Global Digital Shopping Index” from PYMNTS Intelligence in cooperation with Visa. Online shopping is as […]
May 25, 2020
It may feel like the pandemic has always been here. That there was no “before” this — before the worry about microbes, social distancing and sheltering in place. And it...
May 13, 2019
Banking — especially mobile banking — offers ‘single points of failure’ that allow fraudsters to make off with victims’ data and money. Karl Kilb III, CEO of Boloro, tells PYMNTS...
January 15, 2019
From hardware to software, from cash registers to digital wallets, the way commerce is done at smaller firms (SMBs) is changing, especially as mobile makes inroads into the way we...
August 18, 2025
Add Monzo to the growing list of digital banks exploring the mobile phone market. The U.K. FinTech is weighing the launch of its own digital SIM and monthly contracts, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday (Aug. 18), citing sources familiar with the matter. The report added that Monzo confirmed it had entered the “early stages” of its plan. […]
June 18, 2025
Payments company Klarna says it is getting into the mobile business. The company on Wednesday (June 18) announced plans to launch an “unlimited” phone plan in the U.S. in the weeks ahead before bringing...
May 04, 2025
Companies in the FinTech sector are making inroads into the telecom world. That’s according to a report Sunday (May 4) by the Financial Times (FT), pegged to the recent announcement...
August 12, 2024
Google will reportedly make a more aggressive push into consumer devices with the upcoming launch of its latest Pixel smartphones. The company signaled this effort by moving up the launch of...