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DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay. Take PayPal, for example.

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JUNE 2, 2019

There are plenty of signs that Apple is gearing up to say goodbye to iTunes. MacRumors reported that Apple has taken down all of the social media content from its iTunes page on Facebook, including posts, photos, and videos. The company is taking more of a focus on the booming subscription eCommerce market.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

With the recent launch of the Apple Card , Apple has sent a signal that they seek to offer a better user experience than banks. In fact, their slogan for the card is “Created by Apple, Not a Bank?.” But Apple changed the definition of a cellphone — to a smartphone,” she remarked. Especially in the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

The country’s four largest tech firms wasted no time pushing back on a congressional antitrust report that suggested Amazon , Apple , Facebook and Google have become too powerful and might need to be broken up. Apple: 85 Percent of App Store Money Goes to Third Parties. Apple likewise rejected charges that it’s a monopoly.

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APRIL 30, 2019

For the next quarter, Apple is looking for $52.5 The major point of concern among analysts, investors and Apple watchers was the continued decline in iPhone sales revenue. The iPhone is still Apple’s cash engine – responsible for 53.3 The year has seen increasing focus on Apple’s up-and-coming revenue engine.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

If 2020 was the year of streaming media, of content done a million different ways, of apps and Apple, and Google’s and Amazon’s algorithms … it was also the year of Big Tech regulation, where 2020 set the stage for a 2021 that could be seismic in changing the way companies — from Facebook to Apple to debt collectors — interact with consumers.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Apple has temporarily suspended its usual 30 percent assessment on fees users pay to small businesses that host what Facebook calls “Paid Online Events,” The Verge reported Friday (Sept. Facebook launched Paid Online Events to give small businesses a way to make money after COVID-19 made selling tickets impossible.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It may not be that easy for Apple , a tech giant that seems to have missed one of the most important anchors of connected commerce – the home – along with trendlines that suggest the smartphone is slowly becoming less central to the consumer and the commerce experience. Apple is investing heavily to make sure they stay on that list.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

UK Regulations to Create New Digital Markets Unit. antitrust regulators are creating a Digital Markets Unit that will be given the duty to enforce rules applicable to Big Tech firms. That new division will fall under the country’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). Apple Faces $12M Fine Over iPhone Marketing.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

In a roundup of today’s top retail stories: The automotive market continues its comeback with a digital spin, conversational commerce is the next big pandemic-fueled trend, and Tiffany said that its preliminary sales results for August and September 2020 are positive. Automotive Continues Comeback Leading With Digital-First Tools.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

7) that it is supporting SWIFT’s latest service to speed effortless global cross-border payments for small and medium-sized business (SMB) and consumer markets. Report: Dosh CEO On Giving Online Shoppers Safety And Speed At Sign-Up. Today’s online consumers don’t expect to have to choose between speed and security.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Auto brands are taking control of online purchasing platforms by revealing new experiences for the buying, financing or leasing of new vehicles. The clothing market is a quickly evolving place, a fact showcased by Amazon’s quickly increasing share of the market. percent of the market. Currently, that has grown to 14.5

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JANUARY 14, 2019

PayPal appointed Allison Johnson , a marketing veteran with over two decades of experience in her field, as the company’s new executive VP and chief marketing officer (CMO) on Monday (Jan. I was an early convert to PayPal’s vision of fast, secure online payments. Johnson brings a vast knowledge of marketing to her position.

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We developed an accuracy-based framework to have agents crawl various bank websites and rate the website on a scale from 0 to 100 with 100 signifying the fact that the website contained enough information to evaluate various transaction, savings and money market accounts and then the agent could successfully complete the opening of a single account.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Apple and Google executives may be wondering if there's an app for, "time to call the lawyers.". 8) issued a news release stating that it will look at the market power the two companies exert in the country. Meanwhile, Apple faces a probe of its App Store practices in the European Union. Public input will be accepted until Oct.

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JULY 11, 2022

When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout. Fintech enthusiasts should also keep a close watch on Apple’s newly unveiled BNPL system, Apple Pay Later.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

But consolidation looms, according to some observers, and online food delivery services will eventually have to shift more focus away from consumers and toward restaurant operators in order to thrive in a crowded marketplace. But online food delivery operations have more important things to worry about than drones and self-driving vehicles.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Apple gave the green light to bug repairs to the Hey iOS app after its developer, Basecamp , complained about the unfairness of the rules governing the App Store but pledged to make changes to a new version of its app at the suggestion of an Apple executive.

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MARCH 22, 2020

With Apple stores closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, people who left their iPhones or other devices for repair won’t be able to retrieve them until further notice, according to reports. Customers were given a two-day window to pick up their devices beyond the official March 14 closing of Apple stores.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The Wall Street Journal reports the Cupertino, California-based multinational technology company has filed a counter lawsuit against Epic Games accusing the North Carolina software developer of greed and deceit in the fight over the iPhone maker’s App store online software store. 28, which it did, arguing that Epic violated Apple’s rules.

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These companies include firms like Stripe, a six-year-old start-up that is the preferred code for building online checkout services. Really easy to work with, the company is the chosen system for many other innovative companies including Kickstarter and Apple Pay, and valued at almost $10 billion by the end of 2016.

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JULY 3, 2020

Now all Lake needs to do is to create a marketing campaign that communicates all of this to the different customer segments. Despite the criticism the idea has received, the CEO and his team have read the market perfectly. And unlike Stitch Fix, marketing the new plan isn’t the issue for Nike. Tim Cook, CEO, Apple.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the midst of the concurrent holiday gifting and eating season, some of the world’s biggest tech companies are squaring off in hopes of dominating a new market: connected fitness. It’s comfortable, easy, and the technology behind it surpasses any workout machine on the market,” Elle magazine said. Thirteen months after Google’s $2.1

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

The 2020 holiday shopping season is picking up, and consumers are heading online or to reopened brick-and-mortar stores to shop and pay for gifts. We do see people using instruments on for making a lot of repeat purchases, and we are also seeing increased usage of mobile wallets and things like Apple Pay and Google Pay,” she said. “I

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JULY 23, 2020

But regardless of how the business works, don’t call the products of Misfits Market ugly. There’s the excess and then there’s the rest of the produce that doesn’t make the cut,” Ramesh, Misfits Market’s founder and CEO, tells PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster. It’s anything that is nonstandard. It’s anything that is nonstandard.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. It won’t be easy, and some players see it as ultimately handing even more market-making power to Google, Apple and Facebook. Merchants Waiting It Out.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In today’s top news, Apple countersued Epic Games for punitive damages, and telemedicine company Amwell priced its initial public offering (IPO). Apple Seeks Punitive Damages In Battle Against Epic Games. But simply enabling consumers to shop online doesn't cut it when they want to pick up and inspect products at physical stores.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Throughout the six-plus-hour grilling, the stock prices of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were all up — and stayed that way throughout the day. Between the close of business on Tuesday and end of day on Friday, though, Barron’s reported that Alphabet, Apple, Amazon and Facebook collectively added $370 billion to their market caps.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

20th) is Apple Pay ’s sixth birthday – a day that finds the digital payment method carrying a bit of the same air of great expectations that came with its launch in 2014. But, as it turned out, even Apple didn’t have the power to change people’s payments preferences. Apple’s New Numbers Grove. Tuesday (Oct. 23 and Sept.

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JULY 8, 2019

Josh Beck wrote in a note to investors that the online marketplace has received “overwhelmingly positive” feedback from developers, partners and merchants at three recent conferences. The company’s market share, he said, could grow three times in five years to 9 percent. He also raised his 2020 revenue price target from $300 to $350.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

11 (“11-11”) in China and some other countries — saw online sales explode past last year’s sales totals. online sales seen last year between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. billion online during that period, according to Adobe Analytics data. brands from Apple to Nike made strong showings. and Apple Inc.

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JULY 1, 2020

PEPSI promises to rival not only the two credit card giants, but also other financial technology companies including Google , Apple , Alipay and WeChat Pay. . A so-called “scheme manager” will be the central governing body, the online news service reported.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is preparing to enter the mobile payments market, reportedly working to get retailers to accept Amazon Pay as a payment method. The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, reported Amazon wants the service to be expanded beyond making payments online. Amazon wants to first gain market share in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

Add in a drought of live performances due to coronavirus restrictions and health concerns and the market for digital content has exploded this year. Top-ranked Spotify is leading the space, with 286 million monthly active users — half of which pay at least $99 per year for ad-free premium listening — and a $62 billion market value.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Vestager has said the injunctions would be more widely deployed as antitrust investigations continue into Google, Amazon and Apple, among others. “If 6), such actions could crimp the horizontal expansion of online platforms, where growth and addition of ancillary services is critical to the development of the connected economy.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The meeting would include marquee names such as Facebook, Apple, Alphabet and several others. Finance , the call would be held by Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, who oversees the regulation of digital activities, and would focus on the Digital Services Act (DSA). 24 to Dec 2. As noted by Yahoo!

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