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...
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 the phone from October to August, scheduling it before the debut of the next iPhone...
AT&T is finding that by offering both mobility and broadband services, it’s gaining and retaining more customers. The company added 419,000 postpaid phone subscribers during the second quarter, up from 326,000 during the same quarter a year earlier, executives said Wednesday (July 24) during the...
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...
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 from neobank Revolut that it was launching a mobile service. As covered here last week, this program will offer users unlimited calls, texts and data […]
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...
July 24, 2024
AT&T is finding that by offering both mobility and broadband services, it’s gaining and retaining more customers. The company added 419,000 postpaid phone subscribers during the second quarter, up from...
June 18, 2024
Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei is reportedly considering levying in-app purchase fees on its operating system. That’s according to a report Tuesday (June 18) by Bloomberg News, which dubbed this as a...
