Mobile Applications

What's a mobile app? A mobile app is a software program you can download and access directly using your phone or tablet or generally any touch screen device. Typically a mobile app is purchased or downloaded through an app store or can be side loaded on various platforms.

Expedia Tops Travel App Provider Ranking Ahead of Busy Season
Expedia Tops Travel App Provider Ranking Ahead of Busy Season
November 27, 2024  |  Travel Payments

It’s fitting to look at PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Travel Apps, considering this week is one of the busiest travel periods of the year. Each...

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Report: Meta Plans to Add Advertising to Threads
Report: Meta Plans to Add Advertising to Threads
November 13, 2024  |  Meta

Meta reportedly plans to add advertising to its social media platform, Threads. The company’s Instagram ad unit is spearheading the initiative, and a small number...

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Startups Swipe Right: Tech Powers Entrepreneurial Connections This Cuffing Season
Startups Swipe Right: Tech Powers Entrepreneurial Connections This Cuffing Season
November 09, 2024  |  Mobile Applications

Startup founders are looking to dating app-like interfaces to find their coworking soulmates. Just as apps have made finding love a swipe away, a wave...

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Zelle Reportedly Steering Users to Banking Apps
Zelle Reportedly Steering Users to Banking Apps
October 31, 2024  |  Mobile Applications

Zelle reportedly wants users to use its platform via banking apps instead of its own. An executive for the peer-to-peer payments provider told Reuters on...

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Pinwheel and Candescent Launch Direct Deposit Switching Partnership
Pinwheel and Candescent Launch Direct Deposit Switching Partnership
October 30, 2024  |  Partnerships

FinTech Pinwheel teamed with account opening solutions firm Candescent, formerly Terafina. The partnership brings Pinwheel’s direct deposit switching solution to Candescent’s bank and credit union...

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Affirm Updates BNPL App Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season
Affirm Updates BNPL App Ahead of Holiday Shopping Season
October 30, 2024  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Ahead of the holiday shopping season, payments network Affirm is upgrading its app. The company, known for its buy now, pay later (BNPL) offering, now...

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Japanese Fashion Brand GU’s Seamless Shopping Experience Now Open in US
Japanese Fashion Brand GU’s Seamless Shopping Experience Now Open in US
October 29, 2024  |  Retail

GU, a Japanese fashion brand and sister company to Uniqlo, launched its first U.S. flagship store in New York and its eCommerce platform last month....

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Self-Service Banking Gets Boost From New Digital Channels
Self-Service Banking Gets Boost From New Digital Channels
October 28, 2024  |  Banking

It wasn’t long ago that self-service banking meant punching a keypad on an ATM located at a bank vestibule — after banking hours, perhaps —...

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Western Union to Acquire Dash Mobile Wallet From Singtel
Western Union to Acquire Dash Mobile Wallet From Singtel
October 24, 2024  |  Acquisitions

Western Union plans to acquire Dash, a mobile wallet in Singapore that has more than 1.4 million users. The company and Dash owner Singtel signed...

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