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Report: Samsung Pay eyes new frontier
A planned expansion of Samsung Pay is the latest in a seemingly endless series of maneuvers made by mobile payment providers throughout 2015.
In an interview with Reuters, Thomas Ko, global co-manager of Samsung Pay, said U.S. consumers will be able to use the mobile wallet solution for online payments in 2016. In addition, Samsung will roll out Samsung Pay to a broader range of lower-priced phones in the U.S. in the coming year. Currently, it is only available as a built-in feature on the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge devices.
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UPS: No holiday break for shipping
Christmas may have passed, but the holiday shipping surge continues
According to UPS, the holiday peak shipping season will extend well into the first week of the New Year. On Jan. 6, 2016 (National Returns Day) alone, consumers are expected to ship more than a million packages back to retailers. By the end of the first week of January, UPS expects to deliver more than 5 million return packages, an increase of 500,000 from the 2014-15 holiday returns season.