BMW announced on Wednesday (Aug. 10) the launch of BMW Connected, a new app that melds the car with a user’s digital device, whether it’s an iPhone or an Apple Watch. In a press release, the car manufacturer said the app uses a flexible platform...
The latest news on mobile payments shows that the big banks are wanting in on the mobile wallet race, but are they already too far back in the pack? Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a...
Need more evidence that Apple’s iPhone dominance is slipping? Market data firm Kantar Worldpanel found, in the three months ending in May, that Apple’s iPhone 6s/6s Plus did worse than Samsung’s Galaxy S7/S7 Edge in terms of sales. According to a report, 16 percent of consumers bought...
The fast pace of growth in the global mobile app market is expected to double its value by 2020. In the next four years, the global revenue from mobile apps, which currently stands at $52 billion, will exceed $102 billion, a new report by business...
Microsoft is further shrinking its mobile division with yet another round of layoffs. This time, the tech giant is eliminating as many as 1,850 jobs as it struggles to keep its Finland-based Nokia division afloat. As many as 1,350 of those layoffs will come from the Finnish...
Western consumers might think that the continuing competitive rivalry between Google, Apple and Amazon is heating up, but it certainly lacks the legal flare that the fight between South Korea’s Samsung and China’s Huawei has recently acquired. BBC reported that Huawei has filed lawsuits in courts...
Fiserv, a FinTech solutions provider, has partnered with Bangkok Bank to extend advanced mobile banking services to its 17 million customers. The new functionalities of the Thailand-based bank’s mobile banking app called Bualuang mBanking have been developed on Mobiliti Edge, Fiserv’s mobile banking and payments platform, Fiserv said in...
Bank of America just took a major step toward extending its mobile banking services to a growing base of millennials that are steering away from traditional banking. The bank announced its collaboration with Facebook in which it is developing new capabilities that would allow its customers to stay...
British student banking app Loot is close to sealing a £1 million ($1.41 million) seed funding round, nine months after its launch. The app, which works in association with a prepaid Visa debit card linked to a Loot account, exclusively targets students, who often struggle to manage...
