Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Afterpay on Tuesday (Aug. 24) announced the launch of Afterpay Ads. The new advertising solution allows brands to place...
We don’t normally “go there” in this space, but it’s just too tempting. Often marveling at the resilience of the somewhat mysterious SHEIN shopping app...
Telecoms operator Airtel Africa notched a $200 million investment for its Airtel Mobile Commerce unit from the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), MarketWatch and other news...
Vodafone could spin off its popular African mobile money service M-Pesa, the company’s CEO told Bloomberg News on Friday (July 23). M-Pesa, which offers peer-to-peer...
Snapcommerce, the message-driven mobile commerce platform for the price-conscious, has come off a funding round with $85 million, a press release says. With the new...
Mastercard is testing a cloud-based setup that will “enable contactless payments acceptance via a mobile phone.” This Cloud Tap on Phone will mean that “any...
‘Tis the season for predictions — the most dangerous time of the year for potential prognosticators looking to offer the world a sneak peek as...
Super apps – and, from some of the biggest names in commerce, super enthusiasm. And: super amounts of capital being committed to craft consumer-focused ecosystems. The...
That a market is massive and emerging as a target for digitization, does not necessary mean it will be an easy target to pursue —...