Tagged: apps

March 4, 2024 @ 7:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Founder of Sibstar, which is a debit card and app for dementia patients and their families to safely manage their funds, has acquired £125,000 from Dragon’s Den investors Sara Davies and Deborah Maiden. The BBC reality series reportedly sees a number of budding entrepreneurs pitch… Read More

October 18, 2023 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stax Payments, a payment technology provider, announced its acquisition of Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems (APPS), creating an end-to-end, seamless payment processing platform. The integration of APPS marks “a significant expansion of Stax’s technology stack, giving partners and merchants flexible, customizable options for their payment processing needs… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Splitit (ASX:SPT), the white-label service allowing customers to pay by installments using their existing credit on their payment card, and Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV, Corp. (APPS), a North American payment solutions provider, announced they have partnered to deliver an integrated card-based installment payments solution. The… Read More

December 1, 2022 @ 4:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) has taken to Twitter to criticize Apple (NASDAQ:APPL) because it has blocked its most recent App update as Coinbase moved to evade app store fees. Coinbase said that Apple does not understand how NFTs and blockchain work, and thus Apple is in the wrong…. Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Asset management apps or investment apps, like Robinhood or Coinbase, are rising in popularity according to a research report. Apps the enable crypto trading, more traditional stock investments, FOREX and more are seeing increased utilization states Sensor Tower. These types of apps grew 198% during… Read More

June 19, 2021 @ 7:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV, Corp. (APPS), a Fintech holding company offering technology and financial services, has reportedly acquired Cloud-enabled software firm Clique Payments, Inc. The acquisition should allow APPS to further expand its enterprise resource planning and accounting payments integrations solutions to include QuickBooks, FreshBooks,… Read More

August 21, 2018 @ 8:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Urban Massage, a UK-based massage-on-demand scheduling app, is crushing its convertible campaign on Seedrs. Could there be anything better than an incredible massage: overfunding! The campaign is currently overfunding by 131%, having raised over £3,266,740 at this writing, with the confidence of more than 743… Read More

January 24, 2018 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital threat management firm RiskIQ is out with a report that smartphone Apps are a hotbed for scams and hackers in the cryptocurrency space. Having reviewed 18,408 Apps across 20 different App stores, RiskIQ says it has uncovered 661 “blacklisted” Bitcoin Apps allowing crooks to… Read More

November 15, 2017 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global fintech firm InvestCloud announced on Wednesday it has released two new lines of financial apps to run on its digital platform, InvestCloud Gray and InvestCloud Neon. According to the company, InvestCloud Gray digitizes client interactions, providing a modern and flexible platform that is affordable… Read More

July 19, 2017 @ 4:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dash, a payments-focused digital currency, announced on Wednesday it has officially been accepted by Apple as an approved cryptocurrency on the iTunes App Store. Speaking about the approval, CEO of Dash Core Ryan Taylor stated: “As Dash continues to expand our user base and ecosystem of services,… Read More

March 2, 2017 @ 1:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over 48 hours after opening pre-registration for its upcoming equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, app-only bank  Monzo (formally know as Mondo) has attracted more than £8.8 million in interest. The company’s original target for the funding round was £2.5 million, and the funds from the… Read More

February 28, 2017 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

App-only bank Monzo (formally know as Mondo) announced on Tuesday it opened pre-registration for its new equity crowdfunding campaign. Originally seeking £2.5 million, the company has attracted more than £5.8 million in interest so far. As previously reported, Monzo launched its first crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube and raised… Read More

January 17, 2017 @ 11:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Starburst Labs, a maker of web-and-mobile apps for an ecosystem of individual investors, financial advisors, broker-dealers, and financial media brands, has announced it has closed a Series A round of funding totaling $6.25 million.  The company stated it creates, designs, develops, and operates a vertically… Read More

November 25, 2016 @ 9:27 am By Paul Swaddle  |  

  As a mobile app development professional at the largest independent app developers in the UK, I’m asked on countless occasions by enterprise organisations “should we develop a native or hybrid app for our business?” The poser of the questions then sits, perched forward on… Read More

October 31, 2016 @ 10:28 am By Paul Swaddle  |  

For small businesses and big corporate companies alike, mobile is the latest frontier. Yet rather than simply developing a mobile-friendly version of your website or adding a cool e-commerce capability to the mobile user experience, more and more businesses are wisely delving into the mobile… Read More

February 16, 2016 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Aprenita is a recent entry into the online lending sector. While the largest platforms focus on consumer or SME lending, Aprenita has established a laser-focused niche. Founded by Mark Loranger and Sergei Kovalenko, the entrepreneurial pair has “identified a critical funding gap where old systems… Read More

September 18, 2015 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Nextbit, a mobile developer that was created by former Google, Apple, Amazon, and HTC employees, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its new Android smartphone, Robin. Within just three days after its launch, the funding initiative secured a total of $800,000. The company… Read More

September 2, 2015 @ 2:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, CouProm Travel announced that it has teamed up with TravelStarter offer its mobile app to all the travel agencies worldwide that wants to create an extension of their services pre-during and after visiting the destination at no cost to the agency, giving the travel agencies and independent hotel… Read More

November 14, 2014 @ 3:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Lima announced that it was awarded the prize of “Innovation Honoree” at the 2015 CES Innovation Awards in two categories: Software and Mobile Apps and Computer Accessories. Products entered into the CES Innovation Awards are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, independent engineers… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

The Big App Fund has narrowed down the list of entries from the original 425 to a shortlist of 50 businesses.  Entry was closed on October 6th with the next step being a pitch event held at the Facebook offices in London.  The project organized… Read More