October 17, 2017
Pay With Venmo Launches At 2M Merchants
Since the dawn of social media, the notion of inserting commerce into social networks has seemed like the natural extension of having groups of friends share every detail of their day-to-day lives on those...
October 17, 2017
Why The ICBA Doesn’t Want Square To Be A Bank
Despite the fact that they are currently being hotly pursued by technologists, the Industrial Loan Charter (ILC) is not exactly a new idea. The concept – originally called a Morris loan –...
October 16, 2017
China: Qualcomm wants Gov to ban Apple iPhones
Qualcomm filed lawsuits in China, seeking to halt the manufacture and sale of Apple iPhones in the country, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Qualcomm filed the suits in a Beijing intellectual...
October 16, 2017
Samsung 3Q Guidance Strong On Components And Mobile As CEO...
By any measure, the news headlines were significant ones for Samsung Electronics last week. As reported by TechCrunch, the company made two separate announcements Thursday. In one, the company offered...
October 16, 2017
Apple And Samsung Tied For US Market Share Of Smartphone...
New data shows that Apple’s smartphone OS and Samsung’s U.S. market share is now tied, with iOS up 3.7 percentage points year over year to achieve 35 percent market share,...
October 16, 2017
Rambus CTO On Tokenization, Part Deux
The latest iteration of EMVCo’s Payment Tokenization Specification has the potential to change the way we shop – even as it changes the way that consumer information is exchanged between...
October 13, 2017
Qualcomm Sues To Stop iPhone Production In China
Qualcomm and Apple continue their legal battles. This time, Qualcomm has filed lawsuits in China to ban the sale and manufacture of iPhones in the country, claiming patent infringement and seeking...
October 13, 2017
Amazon Tracker: Raising The (Pop-Up) Bar
From teenagers to Tokyo, Amazon is perpetually looking for new ways to meet new consumers where they are. In this week’s tracker, the eCommerce giant raises the bar (the pop-up...
October 13, 2017
Apple iPhone X Production Woes Continue
Apple’s iPhone X is being released next month, but according to a news report in The Nikkei Asian Review on Thursday (Oct. 12), manufacturers are having a tough time perfecting the...
