Throwback Thursday: 5 Great Business Giants That Started in Garages
All you need to launch a thriving business is an idea, capital, a place, and a little bit of luck. However, the practice has shown that some of these points can often be omitted
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Lydian Pay Turns iPhone and Android Smartphones into Crypto Payment Terminals
Lydian has announced the launch of its Lydian Pay app on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay: Mobile Wallets Compared
We’ve considered the weak and strong points of these systems, so the choice is yours
Money20/20 Middle East Brings Alipay+ and Tap to Pay to Saudi Arabia
Money20/20 Middle East closed its active three-day run in Riyadh this week, bringing the fintech community a set of regulatory announcements from the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA), a new unicorn in the Kingdom’s payments sector, and cross-border card interoperability with Qatar.
Pay With Your Watch: Top 6 Wearable Payment Devices
Put the bank card down and pay with your watch.
Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi Approval to Sell Tokenized Stocks
Coinbase has received regulatory approval in Abu Dhabi to offer tokenized securities, a step that lets the crypto exchange bring traditional stocks onto the blockchain outside the United States.
What Is a Digital Wallet?
The thing that lets you pay with your smartphone at the store checkout without ever fumbling with your bank cards or cash banknotes is called a digital wallet. We might use it every other day, but never stop to figure out how exactly it functions. This article aims to explain the main types of digital […]
Open Banking vs Open Finance: What Changes When FiDA Arrives in 2027
Open banking and open finance are often treated as the same idea at different stages of maturity. That framing is no longer accurate. The regulatory scope, the participants, and the political stakes have diverged enough that open finance now needs to be understood as its own contest centred on which companies get to sit inside […]
Apple and Amazon Earnings Analyzed
Apple and Amazon both topped Wall Street estimates in their latest quarterly reports, released within hours of each other on July 30. But the two companies got there in very different ways: one through hardware demand, the other largely through a paper gain on an AI investment.
Apple and Amazon Face the Final Test of Big Tech’s $725B AI Spending Bet
As Apple and Amazon get ready to disclose their quarterly profits following the closing of the markets this Thursday, investors are looking at more than just the revenues earned and the profits made. The outcomes will help wrap up the most recent Big Technology earnings season while influencing the continuation of Wall Street’s willingness to […]
Apple and Amazon Push Embedded Finance Further Into the Checkout Experience
Apple and Amazon have put embedded finance back in the spotlight this week. While Apple is preparing to launch a new financing program for its devices, Amazon Business is renewing attention around its existing partnership with Affirm. Such a synchronization among Big Tech players underscore the growing role of installment payments as an integrated part […]
Google Already Lets Developers Skip Its App Store Fees, Will Apple Follow the UK’s Lead?
Britain’s competition regulator wants to make it easier for app developers to send customers around Apple and Google’s in-app payment systems and one of the two companies says it has already gotten there first. Will another tech giant follow suit?
Peach Payments Brings Apple Pay Convenience to Mauritius Merchants
Mauritius becomes the second African country where local merchants can accept iPhone contactless transactions with the help of Apple Pay functionality in Peach Payments ecosystem.
Google Rolls Out Gmail Encryption and Meet on Android Auto
Google is scaling up two of its core productivity tools this week. First, the tech behemoth is bringing end-to-end encryption to mobile Gmail for both Android and iOS smartphones. Simultaneously, the firm is quietly ushering Google Meet onto Android Auto. Though attentive expert eyes note that both rollouts carry notable strings attached that could leave […]
Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Unites Tech Leaders in Face of Growing AI Power That Can Either Shatter or Supercharge Global Cybersecurity
Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks… What do all of these companies have in common besides their massive tech industry presence? Apparently, they all care about AI models able to discover “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web […]
Comparative Analysis: Apple Wallet vs. PayPal — Who Will Win the Stablecoin Money Race in 2026?
Explore the 2026 stablecoin showdown between Apple Wallet and PayPal. Compare fees, usability, and global reach as PayPal expands PYUSD to 70 markets and Apple enables USDC payments via Apple Pay merchant integrations.
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