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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Samsung on Wednesday (Feb. According to Samsung , the “Galaxy Fold opens smoothly and naturally, like a book, and closes flat and compact with a satisfying click.” Last year in California, Samsung gave a first look at its foldable phone , which has a screen similar to a small tablet. starts at $1,980.”

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 users will have to do without their phones for a while unless they want to risk a handset exploding in their back pocket — or worse, next to their ear. It’s also poor timing because the news coincides with Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus launch and is bound to cause some Samsung users to jump ship.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It couldn’t get much worse for Samsung. Once heralded as the best smartphone ever, the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 has instead proven to be the most combustible smartphone ever. The situation for Samsung is reminiscent of the Irish car manufacturer DeLorean ’s short-lived celebrity in the 1980s. Compounding the agony, the U.S.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

In the wake of the headline-grabbing choice to discontinue production of its Galaxy Note phone due to seemingly intractable battery fires, Samsung’s investors want some clarity about what exactly went so wrong. The order came as Samsung shares continue their free-fall to a new one-month low.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

With Amazon’s Alexa out ahead of the rest of the AI field, reports indicate that some of the competitor brands are contemplating joining forces to take on the task. Samsung, in its quarterly earnings call, indicated that it is working with its partner/rival Google to make a better-working AI on a wider range of devices.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

The numbers are in, and Apple officially outdid Samsung when it came to holiday sales this year. This means that for every Samsung device activated during the holiday season, Apple saw two. This year, 44 percent of new phone and tablet activations were Apple devices with Samsung seeing 21 percent.

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MARCH 25, 2019

And this isn’t a small or niche subset of consumers – according to the latest edition of the Digital Consumer Report , a PYMNTS/ Samsung Pay collaboration, 58 percent of consumers reported engaging in contextual commerce. And brands and technologists have to do a lot of work to build trust in these emerging forms, they noted.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

This time last year, battery issues in the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 created a series of unfortunate problems that resulted in a ban on the devices by the FAA , an expensive recall and damage to Samsung’s share price in the aftermath. Overall, the saga of the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 had shaved $14.3 It’s just that Samsung grew more.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

India has overtaken the United States to become the world’s second largest smartphone market. According to news from a report by Canalys , smartphone shipments in India grew 23 percent year over year in Q3 2017 to reach just over 40 million units, making the country the world’s second largest smartphone market after China.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

The privately-held appliances brand sells vacuum cleaners under the Shark logo, while its line of food processors, coffee makers, pressure cookers and blenders are sold under the Ninja branding. In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. Sizzle of the Week (With A Side Of Fizzle): Samsung. Every once and awhile one of the players we review manages to split the decision between a sizzle and a fizzle, and this week that player is Samsung. Not the type of news that warrants a stiff upper lip.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Marking the sixteenth consecutive quarter of declines in the tablet market, the third quarter experienced an 8.6 When it comes to brands of tablets, Apple stayed in the lead. Amazon and Samsung were also in the top three. percent fall on a year-over-year basis.

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APRIL 30, 2018

China’s smartphone market saw its largest decline in terms of shipments during the first quarter as competition heated up, pushing Apple into fifth place. The Chinese smartphone market initially surpassed the current shipment volume back in the fourth quarter of 2013, noted the research firm.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market. Hot on the heels of M-Pesa, Samsung plans to initiate payment services in South Africa in the first quarter of 2017.

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JANUARY 12, 2020

12), as Samsung has unveiled its Galaxy XCover Pro, an enterprise-grade smartphone that comes pre-installed with Visa’s Tap to Phone app. The partnership with Samsung is the first time the Tap to Phone software has been integrated into a device. The mPOS landscape got more interesting today (Jan.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

The app has the potential to fit into the emerging trend of smart kitchens, particularly as manufacturers of household appliances — such as Samsung — seek to integrate smart technology into their products. It plans to hire 12 to 14 people across technical and marketing domains. Krishna also plans to expand Chefling’s workforce.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

And the cooling passion for rapidly replacing phones is paired with a waning enthusiasm for the highest end phones on the market, according to research from Gartner. I think the data in the global market attests to that,” Grant said. Customers are paying for features, not necessarily brand names, particularly in the developing world.

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APRIL 30, 2020

TrendForce , a provider of technology market intelligence, reported global production of cellphones for the period from April through June is expected to drop to 287 million units, or 16.5 Samsung, the first-quarter leader, was experiencing constrained growth this year even without the emergence of COVID-19, the report said.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

The funds can then be uploaded to a mobile wallet, including Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay. Their collaboration links Bitty to Visa Direct functionality, allowing it to brand virtual and physical prepaid and debit cards linked to a business account.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million for all Swiss watch brands combined. Since the first Apple smartwatch hit the market in 2014, it has become among the tech giant’s biggest products. The window for Swiss watch brands to make an impact in smartwatches is closing. All figures are a result of research by the market research firm Strategy Analytics.

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MAY 11, 2016

At least that’s the case in two of their largest smartphone markets — China and Europe — where Android continues to cut into Apple’s market share. percent market share, and in the U.S. As for Apple’s iOS figures, its market share declined in the EU from 20.2 percent of the smartphone market, up from 6.9

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Apple got pushed out of the number two spot in terms of smartphone shipments for the second quarter of 2018, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). million units, and record high market shares of 15.8 Samsung, meanwhile, was in first place with a comfortable lead over the second and third place players.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The retail giant disclosed via Twitter that it plans to keep most Walmart and Neighborhood Market locations open from 7 a.m. Starting November 14, Walmart stores and Neighborhood Markets will be open 7 AM to 11 PM until further notice. 14, with amazing deals on iPhones and Samsung phones.”. local time.

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APRIL 7, 2017

Big Tech Battle of Market Caps : Amazon’s market cap has hit a significant milestone. With a new high of $900 a share, the company’s recent market cap stood at more than $430 billion. That’s nearly twice the market cap of Walmart and has three times the revenue of that stalwart eCommerce player. The lesson here?

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Before jumping head first onto the AR bandwagon, though, retailers need to ask themselves: How do AR features like these build up the brand names of the retailers that use them? Do they add value or are they frivolous marketing ploys? As we will demonstrate, the answer depends on the use case.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Last month, the FinTech introduced a “ Wish Lis t ” to up its social game by connecting with lists curated by brands, influencers and shopping experts and share them with family. It partners with more than 200,000 merchants, including H&M, Ikea, Samsung, Peloton, Abercrombie & Fitch and Nike.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The tech giant's first 5G-enabled smartphone will be a latecomer in China, as local brands have been offering their own versions ready to use on the country's established 5G internet networks. That said, Apple has been later to the game than some rivals, including Samsung, which already boasts multiple 5G-capable devices.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

After Samsung and Apple, Huawei had the third-largest market share for smartphones, according to IDC , for Q2 2016. OPPO, which has the fourth-largest market share at 6.6 The firm is an aggressive marketer, and its R9 and A31 were its top models in Q2 2016. Also an aggressive marketer, Vivo has a strong brand presence.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Which means regardless of the ultimate fate of Samsung’s newest flagship phone — the Galaxy S8 — Samsung has already won a pretty major victory. The star of the show was the Galaxy 8 phone — and on the whole distinctly “Samsung” looking infinity edge, all curved side-design. inch screen. That was just the warm-up act.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

As of early 2019, Amazon and Google are the two main competitors for that crown, and they are not quite equally matched insofar as Amazon’s market share is greater. Among the highlights were Alexa’s smart TV expansion – particularly into models made by LG and Samsung. Google Goes Big.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Unlike the US, where the smartphone market is divided between a small number of key players, in Asia there are many companies vying to become the dominant smartphone provider, from global giants to smaller local startups. Using CB Insights data, we mapped out the key emerging Asian smartphone brands challenging established players.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Engagement Labs, the data and analytics company that assists marketers, says the group of people born between 1997 and 2016 are 86 million strong, and influence $600 billion of spending by families. As a result, digital devices from the likes of Apple and Samsung are going to be popular with this group, as are food and beverage brands.

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JANUARY 12, 2019

And if consumers are not in the market for their own smart toilet, they can get one for their dog. Among a slew of other announcements at CES, Samsung snuck in some rather interesting robot-related news : The firm has developed three new consumer and retail robots, as well as a wearable exoskeleton.

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JULY 27, 2016

Whatley noted that the payment solution has enabled many charities to accept credit cards, including the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, which uses DipJar in both a retail setting to collect money for itself and to collect money at events, and The Salvation Army, which uses branded DipJars for various campaigns.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Amazon also is the market leader when it comes to smart speaker sales, with about 70 percent of the market, although Google is expected to catch up by 2022. As for earbuds, Apple has 60 percent of the market, with brands like Samsung and Bose trailing behind. .

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MAY 29, 2018

The two collaborated on a payments solution designed to enable MegaFon subscribers to make purchases or pay bills via their smartphone using Apple Pay or Samsung Pay and a linked virtual Mastercard. And speaking of Samsung Pay , the electronics giant recently rolled out a rewards and cash back program for users of its mobile payment service.

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