AT&T is finding that by offering both mobility and broadband services, it’s gaining and retaining more customers. The company added 419,000 postpaid phone subscribers during the second quarter, up from 326,000 during the same quarter a year earlier, executives said Wednesday (July 24) during the...
Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei is reportedly considering levying in-app purchase fees on its operating system. That’s according to a report Tuesday (June 18) by Bloomberg News, which dubbed this as a sign of the company’s rising confidence as it takes on Apple in the world’s biggest...
Apple’s reign as the world’s top smartphone maker was short-lived. The iPhone maker supplanted Samsung late last year as the number-one seller of the devices, though Samsung regained the crown during this year’s first quarter, according to a report Sunday (April 14) by IDC. That...
Samsung’s decade-plus reign as the king of the smartphone market is over. “The last time a company not named Samsung was at the top of the smartphone market was 2010, and for 2023 it is now Apple,” research group IDC said Monday (Jan. 15) in...
May 25, 2020
It may feel like the pandemic has always been here. That there was no “before” this — before the worry about microbes, social distancing and sheltering in place. And it may seem that we’ve always done what we’ve needed to do online — work from home, learn from home, and of course, bank and shop […]
May 13, 2019
Banking — especially mobile banking — offers ‘single points of failure’ that allow fraudsters to make off with victims’ data and money. Karl Kilb III, CEO of Boloro, tells PYMNTS...
January 15, 2019
From hardware to software, from cash registers to digital wallets, the way commerce is done at smaller firms (SMBs) is changing, especially as mobile makes inroads into the way we...
January 14, 2019
Africa is home to 54 countries and hundreds of millions of smartphone users — young, tech-savvy and ready to embrace digital payments and banking. Emergent’s Saqib Nazir talks about the opportunities...
August 12, 2024
Google will reportedly make a more aggressive push into consumer devices with the upcoming launch of its latest Pixel smartphones. The company signaled this effort by moving up the launch of the phone from October to August, scheduling it before the debut of the next iPhone from its rival, Apple, Bloomberg reported Monday (Aug. 12). Google will unveil […]
July 24, 2024
AT&T is finding that by offering both mobility and broadband services, it’s gaining and retaining more customers. The company added 419,000 postpaid phone subscribers during the second quarter, up from...
June 18, 2024
Chinese smartphone-maker Huawei is reportedly considering levying in-app purchase fees on its operating system. That’s according to a report Tuesday (June 18) by Bloomberg News, which dubbed this as a...
April 15, 2024
Apple’s reign as the world’s top smartphone maker was short-lived. The iPhone maker supplanted Samsung late last year as the number-one seller of the devices, though Samsung regained the crown...
