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.

Stripe Acquires OpenChannel for Ecosystem Integration
Stripe Acquires OpenChannel for Ecosystem Integration
December 06, 2021  |  Acquisitions

Digital payment processing firm Stripe on Monday (Dec. 6) announced the acquisition of app marketplace software platform OpenChannel, which helps businesses build app ecosystems for...

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New Provider Ranking of Personal Finance Apps Shows Incremental Movement
New Provider Ranking of Personal Finance Apps Shows Incremental Movement
December 03, 2021  |  Mobile Applications

Managing personal finances has never come easily to most people — except maybe your irritating cousin who’s really good at math, and also a cheapskate — so...

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New Provider Ranking of Order-Ahead Apps Features Shifts and Ties
New Provider Ranking of Order-Ahead Apps Features Shifts and Ties
December 02, 2021  |  Mobile Applications

Feel like ordering takeout? With this month’s PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Mobile Order-Ahead Apps, which compares restaurant apps based on data about their ordering capabilities, their...

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Grab Shares Slide in Nasdaq Debut Following $40B SPAC Deal
Grab Shares Slide in Nasdaq Debut Following $40B SPAC Deal
December 02, 2021  |  IPO

Update: Grab shares dropped 21% to $8.75 on the company’s first day of trading on the Nasdaq, Thursday (Dec. 2). The slump gives Grab a...

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Tencent’s WeChat Pay Envisions Future Where Payment Options are the Norm
Tencent’s WeChat Pay Envisions Future Where Payment Options are the Norm
December 02, 2021  |  Mobile Payments

China’s crackdown on technology companies that offer payment services had the unintended side effect of opening the lines of communication between competitors like Alibaba and...

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Apple Asks Court to Halt App Store Payments Order
Apple Asks Court to Halt App Store Payments Order
December 02, 2021  |  Legal

Attorneys for Apple are asking a federal appeals court to halt an injunction that would require the tech giant to allow external payment links in...

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Paytm Gets First ‘Buy’ Rating Following Rocky IPO 
Paytm Gets First ‘Buy’ Rating Following Rocky IPO 
December 02, 2021  |  IPO

The Indian super app Paytm received its first buy rating this week, following a less-than-stellar debut last month on the country’s stock exchange.  As Bloomberg...

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Song Remains the Same for Top Crypto Exchange Apps  
Song Remains the Same for Top Crypto Exchange Apps  
December 01, 2021  |  Cryptocurrency

Within the cryptocurrency sphere, not much remains static. Certainly not the pricing of the digital issuances themselves, where the price of bitcoin and other holdings...

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Latest Provider Rankings of Payroll Apps
Latest Provider Rankings of Payroll Apps
December 01, 2021  |  Mobile Applications

Most of the same contenders are present, but there have been some changes of position in this month’s PYMNTS Provider Rankings of Payroll Apps.  In...

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