A new forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that worldwide smartphone shipments are expected to rebound slightly in 2017 after a slowdown last year. According to a press release, year-over-year growth was 2.5 percent in 2016, marking the lowest growth ever for the...
Au revoir, operator. For the first time ever, more than half of U.S. households don’t have landline service. New data from the U.S. Health Department and the CDC released last week has found that 50.8 percent of American households only had cell phone service in...
With a $500 billion market opportunity and the proliferation of mobile devices among unbanked or underbanked consumers globally, the money transfer space is primed and ready for disruption. For BillMo, that disruptive remittance model revolves around one thing — delivering value. It’s no longer enough to...
Mobile payments continued to gain traction for coffee giant Starbucks in the second quarter of the current fiscal year. Mobile overall was 29 percent of all orders in the U.S., a sequential gain of 2 percent. Within that designation, mobile order and pay was 8 percent of...
Global provider of corporate payment solutions WEX Inc. recently announced the launch of ClearView Advanced, a next-generation reboot of the company’s fleet analytics and benchmarking platform. ClearView Advanced, in addition to analyzing fuel and vehicle data to generate cost- and time-saving insights, has expanded its capabilities...
Government service providers and payments stand to benefit as much as consumer-facing industries from increased connectivity and technological advancement. Recently, for example, Idaho residents looking to make child support payments via mobile devices just got a boost in functionality. The result of a partnership between...
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 8 may be delayed or may come out without fingerprint sensing, as component suppliers are facing challenges with a new optic fingerprint. Pacific Crest Securities’ analysts said in a report Sunday that Apple has a choice either to delay the launch or...
In just a few short years, mobile order-ahead capabilities have become an essential feature across a rapidly growing number of quick-service restaurants (QSR) in the U.S. In a fireside chat at Innovation Project 2017, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and Seth Priebatsch, Chief Ninja of mobile payments,...
Google’s Android operating system has long been the dominant one in the mobile space, but now it’s becoming the leader in the PC world as well, pushing out Microsoft and its OS for the first time ever. Research firm StatCounter released data on Monday (April...
