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...Apple faces new antitrust battle in BrusselsThe tech giant will be challenged over the way it restricts rivals from accessing its mobile payments system Apple Pay....
...Eva Wang, a former American Express executive who now heads partnerships at Firework, a video-shopping commerce solution, says Apple’s interest in payments and banking is mostly about extending the reach...
...Traditional payments companies like Mastercard, and American Express will probably play a central role as the gateways to commerce on platforms like Meta and Roblox, according to Ghose....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. You can build it, but will they come?...
...And nowadays, we carry gaming devices with us every day in our mobile phones, on our laptops. People play games everywhere....
...Hilton, for example, raised $1bn during the pandemic just by selling advance loyalty points to its credit card partner American Express....
...Write to the FintechFT team at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on November 25 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
...Facebook said it was acting to support the right of people to express themselves “without fear for their safety”. 4....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on December 16, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on October 29. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Isaac is a songwriter and Rob a creative writing major, and TikTok was “an outlet for us to express ourselves in weird ways” amid everyday stresses, Isaac says....
...Google has already teamed up with US retailers Walmart and Target on voice-based shopping, which lets customers buy from their websites through the Google Express app or by placing a voice order with the...
...Last year, China Rapid Finance Ltd, Qudian Inc, Hexindai Inc, Jianpu Technology and PPDAI Group Inc went public in the US....
...Xbox One X on sale today Microsoft was king of the video game hill with the Xbox 360, but things haven’t gone nearly as well for the Xbox One....
...It notes that nearly half of all e-commerce passes through Amazon while Facebook controls 77 per cent of mobile social traffic and Google has 81 per cent of the search engine market....
...The US Chamber of Commerce pointedly brushed aside suggestions of anti-Americanism, and said Europe applied different antitrust principles to those in the US....
...infringer’s entire profits from the ‘article of manufacture’ to which the design was applied”, the DoJ cautioned that the “‘article of manufacture’ will not always be the finished product that is sold in commerce...
...Investors in Stripe range from traditional venture capitalists to credit card companies, including Visa and American Express....
...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
...Indian mobile commerce company Paytm, which is backed by China’s Alibaba, has also been exploring potential sponsorship deals with the BCCI....
...Even some in the advertising industry express sympathy....
...The reason the payments market is growing so fast is that it is no longer limited to online-only transactions, as mobile devices change the way commerce is conducted in a store....
...Debra Aho-Williamson, principal analyst at research firm eMarketer, says retailers need to offer mobile commerce on social networks because that is where consumers spend much of their time....
...“We wanted this to be the simplest way to experience commerce . . . Truly payments are becoming invisible.”...
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