Samsung’s decade-plus reign as the king of the smartphone market is over. “The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010, and for 2023 it is now Apple,” research group IDC said Monday (Jan. 15) in...
Silicon Valley’s 72-hour OpenAI drama was quelled last week with the return of Sam Altman as CEO to the firm he co-founded in 2015. The board will be reconstituted with grownups who might have more business — and common — sense. Many open questions remain....
Apple’s sales of iPhones are reportedly running lower than historical trends, while store inventories are up. Among the devices, there has been healthy demand for the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max — but this has only partially offset slower sales of the iPhone 15...
Apple’s chief iPhone supplier will increase investments outside of China as consumer electronic demand weakens. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, released earnings Wednesday (Mar. 15) that projected flat revenue for the first quarter and full year, with lower demand for consumer electronics offset by other...
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 seem that we’ve always done what we’ve needed to do online — work from home, learn from home, and of course, bank and shop […]
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...
January 14, 2019
Africa is home to 54 countries and hundreds of millions of smartphone users — young, tech-savvy and ready to embrace digital payments and banking. Emergent’s Saqib Nazir talks about the opportunities...
April 15, 2024
Apple’s reign as the world’s top smartphone maker was short-lived. The iPhone maker supplanted Samsung late last year as the number-one seller of the devices, though Samsung regained the crown during this year’s first quarter, according to a report Sunday (April 14) by IDC. That report shows Apple’s iPhone shipments declining and points to a […]
January 16, 2024
Samsung’s decade-plus reign as the king of the smartphone market is over. “The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010,...
November 21, 2023
Apple’s sales of iPhones are reportedly running lower than historical trends, while store inventories are up. Among the devices, there has been healthy demand for the iPhone 15 Pro and...
March 15, 2023
Apple’s chief iPhone supplier will increase investments outside of China as consumer electronic demand weakens. Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer, released earnings Wednesday (Mar. 15) that projected flat revenue for...
