PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

At a time when the coronavirus has already changed so many aspects of our daily lives, a revision of this post-Thanksgiving retail tradition only makes sense. That prompted the overwhelming majority of big-box retailers to follow suit, except for a few dollar stores and the major pharmacy chains. Not Just Retailers Are Reacting.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Samsung Electronics smartphone sales will increase in the holiday shopping season, with the general trend lasting into 2019, the company said when announcing its Q3 results. AI-based automation will enable Samsung to introduce new services in the 5G era, such as industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and connected cars.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In an Academy Awards TV advertisement that hinted at the features of the new device, Samsung unveiled its new foldable phone. In other news, a myriad of videos, screenshots and images of Samsung’s Galaxy Home Mini have made its way to the internet, according to The Verge. 12, which is one day after the rollout of the Galaxy S20.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Samsung, the South Korean consumer electronics giant, announced Thursday (March 20) a partnership with Prepaid Financial Services (PFS) to launch Samsung Pay for its branded cards. In a press release , Samsung said cardholders on specific programs issued and managed by PFS in the U.K. can now enable Samsung Pay.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

As retail shifts further into online spaces, the pressure is on for traditional stores to integrate digital features into their physical spaces to keep consumers interested. Samsung’s booth at the NRF Big Show 2017 showcases a retail journey from beginning to end using the company’s innovations.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

NCR and Samsung Electronics America announced news on Wednesday (Nov. 8) of the launch of NCR Silver Quantum, an all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) station featuring an integrated payment device that comes equipped with mobile wallet acceptance capability, customer display, a loyalty scanner and a Samsung Galaxy tablet.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

Samsung has seen the benefits of loyalty, and it is making it a part of its mobile wallet. The electronics company announced yesterday (May 18) that Samsung Pay users in the U.S. The release adds that Samsung Pay’s new membership feature allows users to store other types of cards as well, including insurance and ID cards.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

and China impacts the global markets for smartphones and chips, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd. predicts a sharp drop in operating profit for the second quarter. Operating profit for April through June likely dropped 56 percent to $5.6 As the trade war between the U.S. billion or 6.5 Intensified U.S.-China

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Security researchers in Israel have discovered serious vulnerabilities in the operating system used by Samsung in its smart televisions, smart watches and mobile devices, Fortune reported. It’s possible that tens of millions of Samsung products could be at risk of being remotely take over by hackers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2016

13) the rollout of Android Pay and Samsung Pay to its personal banking clients. In a press release , Scottrade said that, with Android Pay and Samsung Pay, Scottrade Bank now offers multiple mobile payment solutions. Scottrade Bank, a division of Scottrade Financial Services, announced Tuesday (Dec. Scottrade and U.S.

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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. Stores with more reduced hours will keep current hours of operation. The extension continues a trend that began in August of the chain reversing operational cuts put into place when COVID-19 first struck.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most of the time, the big battles in retail take place on the battlefields of brick-and-mortar storefronts and customers’ keyboards. Reuters reported that, despite a string of losses in the courtroom and an order to pay Apple $120 million in damages for patent infringement, Samsung received a bit of good news on Friday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Samsung Electronics , the South Korean consumer electronics company, is expanding in India, opening on Tuesday (Sept. According to a report in Reuters , citing Samsung Electronics, the 33,000-square-foot store is located in the southern tech hub of Bengaluru. 11) its largest mobile store in the world.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Samsung posted its best operating profit ever in its first-quarter 2018 earnings results, but the manufacturer also had other news: A slowdown is looming for its display panel unit, which makes organic light-emitting diode screens for its own smartphones and Apple’s iPhone X. trillion Korean won ($14.5 trillion Korean won ($56.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

This week in retail, we’ve seen a myriad of movement from nearly all sides. We’ve seen earnings surge , earnings dive down , launches and a significant change in the way grocery stores are operating. On the other end of the spectrum, Green Dot and Flywire are seeing a positive direction.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. The executive also said the retailer saw an “1,000 percent increase” in purchases of pizza slices made through the SmartPay service since January 1. And if a customer uses Samsung Pay to buy those offers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Things have managed to go from bad to worse to nearly incalculably awful for Samsung in the course of the last few days. The first reported failure came last Wednesday (Oct 5) when a “safe” Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught fire aboard an aircraft. As of Monday (Oct. 10) the exploded replacement phone count is up to four.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans. The retail sector is among the largest employers in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are. That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. SMBs: Small business operators remained optimistic into March as data from Capital One stated that half of smaller firms surveyed see optimism about the current business climate, which is better by 9 percent than a year ago. Or at least Bixby will when available.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a part of its retail transformation strategy, HSBC Bank USA spent over $130 million on innovation projects in one year on its U.S. operations. These projects range from less visible, but equally important, system upgrades on the back-end and more visible ones like installing Softbank’s robot Pepper in its New York flagship.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Mike Lawlor, chief services officer of USA Technologies, dove into the innovations that have marked the unattended retail space. The same principle applies to the other retailers who want to broaden their presence to consumers, physically, to be where those people “work, play and transit.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

Mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) adoption is becoming increasingly high on retailers’ to-do lists. In the March mPOS Tracker , PYMNTS explores the new mPOS uptake, as well as how mPOS providers are launching solutions into new markets, boosting their presence where they already operate and partnering to expand their reaches.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In the latest edition of the Digital Consumer Report , in collaboration with Samsung Pay , PYMNTS analyzes how contextual commerce is changing how consumers interact and shop with merchants, and how contextual commerce experiences are growing more important for customers who want to shop in their home and through their smartphones.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 25, 2016

Google has signaled that Android apps will soon run on Chromebooks — yet another sign that “mobile” and “desktop” experiences are converging, and that a single online experience will operate across different devices (including your refrigerator.)

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MARCH 6, 2020

Samsung will move a portion of its domestic phone manufacturing to Vietnam because of the quick spread of the coronavirus and temporarily shutter its facility in Gumi, the Financial Times reported. Samsung said it would “return Gumi’s production to normal levels when appropriate.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Industry executives told the publication that technology giants including Samsung Electronics Co. Samsung Vice Chairman Jay Y. Lee reportedly visited Tokyo over the weekend to discuss how the company could mitigate as much disruption from Japan’s decision as possible, reports said, citing an unnamed Samsung official.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

In the last month, a host of tech giants ranging from Uber to Samsung partnered with emerging payment solutions to get a foot up on the competition. Meanwhile, Samsung is reportedly considering offering its mobile payment solution, Samsung Pay, through competing smartphone brands. The latest in the PaaS world.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Going Big on New Features: the Foldable Samsung. Whatever it is people will say about the newly released Samsung Galaxy Fold , no one is going to suggest that it looks like an iPhone. According to Samsung , the “Galaxy Fold opens smoothly and naturally, like a book, and closes flat and compact with a satisfying click.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

So where to next for the omnichannel retail giant? So while online retail accounts for about 5 percent of Southeast Asian commerce today, the region’s internet economy is poised to grow tremendously by 2025, with a projected annual worth of over $200 billion. Its small size makes establishing an operation simple.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The top five vendors ( Samsung , Xiaomi , Vivo , Oppo and Lenovo ) now account for 75 percent of total shipments in India. Samsung shipped 9.4 It struggles in the mid-range (devices priced between INR15,000 and INR20,000 [US$230 and US$310]), where Samsung, Oppo and Vivo are particularly strong. Growth will continue.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Over a year ago, we published a 2014 edition of our annual Top Retail Payment Trends Report ( 2015 edition is here ), in which we distinguished between app-based wallets – majority of mobile payments solutions in the market at that point – and device-based wallets. Then, Google announced it was buying Softcard’s technology.

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JULY 9, 2019

Those three words strike at the heart of identity, and mean so very much when it comes to the efficient operation of the global digital economy and its continuing growth, whether via retail, payments, financial services, healthcare or other areas. Everything is moving toward digital.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The season isn’t so much revving up as already in full swing — and now the pressure is really on for retailers to switch up their holiday game plans as the clock is ticking and the pie is shrinking. PayPal, Google Pay, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay have all been up this season. A Very Digital Shopping Season . percent to 25.7

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Among the highlights were Alexa’s smart TV expansion – particularly into models made by LG and Samsung. The integration with Samsung was a bit of a head turner, given that the South Korean electronics firm has been a holdout when it comes to offering Alexa or Google Assistant on its TVs, since it has its own assistant, Bixby.

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