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‘Alexa, find me a doctor’ and the wearables revolution revs up
The wearables market seems to be extremely buoyant and expanding in interesting ways. It now seems as if wearables will become ubiquitous, and soon. Read more…
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Carrier billing set to triple by 2024, unless they screw it up
One in five digital content sales will be done via carrier billing. Consumer spending using carrier billing will rise from $28 billion to around $90 billion in five years. Read more…
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Is Apple about to throttle rivals with a payments play?
Apple may come across as cool, trendy and really rather nice but in reality it is big and it is ruthless. Read more…
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Singtel expands VIA cross-border payments to Japan
The Singtel Group’s VIA, Asia’s first cross-border mobile payment alliance, has expanded its footprint to Japan Read more…
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The future for retail is bright but the road is rocky
Research from Juniper may well predict consumer retail spend will increase by 25% in the next three years but that does not mean that it will be easy. Read more…
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Operators not ready for 5G billing, or partners, or revenue: survey
Billing is always the thorn in the sides of operators, always the last thing to be given green light from above. The same is true in 5G. Read more…
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The world of payments may be in for a bumpy ride
There seems to be a lot of activity in the world of payments. Sadly, not all of it is encouraging and some of it seems more than a little confusing. Read more…
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China’s central bank warns rejecting cash payments illegal
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s central bank on Monday warned that rejecting cash as a form of payment was illegal, saying that such practices could eventually could cause the loss of confidence in physical money and Read more…
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Online payment fraud to more than double by 2023: report
Annual online payment fraud losses from e-commerce, airline ticketing, money transfer and banking services will reach $48 billion by 2023; up from the $22 billion in losses projected for 2018, according to a new report Read more…
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Rakuten signs roaming deal with KDDI to boost LTE launch
KDDI has signed an agreement to provide roaming services to Rakuten for its LTE mobile network to be launched in October 2019, which will enable the e-commerce firm to offer a nationwide LTE service from Read more…