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Apple Wins Battle With Australia Banks Over Mobile Payments
November 29th, 2016
Apple Inc. won the first round of a battle with Australia’s largest banks, which have been trying to force the tech company to offer them access to its Apple Pay technology that allows smartphones and tablets to communicate with ...
Samsung Electronics to consider split
November 28th, 2016
South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) will consider splitting itself into two as proposed by U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management, Seoul Economic Daily reported on Monday citing an unnamed source. A split would allow the heirs of ...
Sweden could soon be the first country in the world to have its own digital currency
November 21st, 2016
Sweden’s central bank is looking into launching its own digital currency, it has revealed. If the e-krona is indeed launched, it would make the Riksbank the first major central bank in the world to have a digital currency. “The ...
Citibank Launches Challenge to Apple and Google With Citi Pay
November 11th, 2016
Citi is the latest company to enter the mobile wallet wars, which is dominated by Apple Pay, Android Pay, PayPal, Samsung Pay, and others. On Thursday, the finance titan unveiled Citi Pay, a new mobile wallet for Android phone ...
No matter who wins US Election markets are betting on one truly safe investment
November 7th, 2016
No matter who wins the race for the White House, markets are betting on one truly safe investment, and that is the currency of a country with bleak economic prospects – Japan. Markets had long been pricing in a ...
Accounting software firm plans to float on the London Stock Exchange
October 31st, 2016
FreeAgent, the Edinburgh-based provider of accounting software, has unveiled plans to float on the London Stock Exchange. Led by chief executive and co-founder Ed Molyneux – a former RAF fighter pilot – the company is hoping to join the ...
The law firms that won roles in transaction that to be the largest European technology M&A deal
October 31st, 2016
Allen & Overy (A&O) and DLA Piper have won roles among US heavyweights as Qualcomm acquires Dutch firm NXP Semiconductors for $39bn. Smartphone chip designer Qualcomm has agreed to the world’s biggest automotive chip maker NXP in a deal worth $47bn including ...
India to overtake US as ecommerce superpower
October 29th, 2016
India is set to overtake the US as the world’s second largest ecommerce market within the next 20 years thanks to a young, connected and growing middle class, according to research from Worldpay. While India accounts for less than ...
Samsung said it aims to recover quickly from dragged Q3 mobile earnings after Note 7 shock
October 27th, 2016
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday said it aims to recover quickly from the disastrous withdrawal of the fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 that dragged third-quarter mobile earnings to their lowest level in nearly eight years. The South Korean giant ...
Company wants to introduce hands-free shopping in virtual reality
October 17th, 2016
Alibaba‘s finance arm is working on a technology that could potentially allow users to shop inside virtual stores without having to take off their virtual reality (VR) goggles to settle payments. On Wednesday, Ant Financial, the company behind Alipay, ...