Yolt only acquired 1.5 million users as of 2020, suggesting the app couldn’t compete against the wide range of neobanks with advanced PFM tools and personal finance apps like Chip and Moneybox that expanded beyond PFM to include investment services. What’s next for ING?

These offerings could chip away at Klarna’s growth and make it harder for the provider to keep its impressive market share. But Klarna is likely banking on its ambitions of becoming a super app that’s home to shopping and financial services to keep its user base and fend off competitors by tying customers tightly to the company.

But the outlook is not all rosy—lithium shortages, battery scarcity, and the unrelenting chip shortage will hold back EV sales.

What this means: The report indicates a steady rise in smartphone production despite the challenges from the global chip shortage and, more recently, surging cases of COVID-19 shuttering factories and affecting production in various countries. The report said Apple’s iPhone sales are expected to jump 13.8%, outpacing rival Android’s 6.2% growth.

By expanding its fulfillment network through malls and other initiatives, Amazon could chip away at this advantage and protect its own position.

Importantly, Amazon continues to slowly chip away at Google’s share of total US digital ad revenues—which will shrink from 28.9% in 2020 to 26.6% by 2023, even as its digital ad business grows. More specifically, Amazon is stealing share from Google within search, as it continues to better monetize the channel.

Amazon Prime Video launched in the region in late 2016 but has not been able to chip away at the streaming behemoth’s dominance. What’s more, HBO Max and Hulu will be rolling out in these markets in 2021.

Another possible issue is that variable lighting on shelves means the robot needs better (and more expensive) camera systems, which in turn use more powerful chips to run pattern-matching algorithms on images.

Government policies, particularly in the US, Europe, and China, and automaker commitments toward bringing EVs to the mainstream, are all positive signs—but the outlook is not all rosy—lithium shortages, battery scarcity, and the protracted chip shortage will continue to limit EV sales, at least in the short term.

The card’s chip integrates Samsung's technology and will be able to be used anywhere that accepts Mastercard chip cards globally. Biometric payment cards are set to continue gaining momentum thanks to the growing demand for cashless transactions and innovations that are helping drive down issuer costs.

Qualcomm will start shipping chips in 2021 that can handle download speeds of 10 Gbps, so peak performance will continue to rise over the next few years. Again, most of those increases have less to do with the inherent efficiency of 5G, although part of them does. Most of it has to do with the wider bandwidth available to 5G.

In early 2018, though, all four major networks eliminated signature requirements for chip card transactions specifically, opting to focus on digital authentication technologies instead. This move gained steam in 2020, as the pandemic encouraged customers to look for ways to limit physical contact as much as possible.

Whether it’s NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], government bodies, schools, or the Boys and Girls Club in Jackson, each of them is individually trying to chip away at this huge rock. And by joining together, we’ve been able to maximize our effort. How will you decide which markets you want to branch out to?

Coupled with the fact that these platforms can be watched on virtually any connected device, it’s not surprising that time spent watching digital video will continue to chip away at traditional TV time.”. We forecast that other major traditional media saw declines by the end of 2019: newspapers (down 3.7%), magazines (down 4.5%) and radio (down 1.8%).

Such payments were only slightly less popular than chip-and-PIN payments and cash, and streets ahead of mobile phone payments. One recent regulatory edict promises to help the cause of proximity mobile payments, though.

China’s 5G rollout has been a resounding success (thus far), despite the pandemic and geopolitical headwinds, which saw the US ban leading telecom equipment providers Huawei and ZTE from accessing computer chips made with US technology for their 5G products.

A one-month boycott from several large advertisers would temporarily chip away at growth, but a more broad-based and sustained boycott could alter Facebook’s domestic revenues more significantly. “Every time advertisers are forced to try a new option, it can have a lasting impact,” said Stephen Upstone, founder and CEO of LoopMe, a video advertising and optimization platform. Mobile Video.

Companies must continue to chip away at complex efforts like obtaining a single customer view and an omnichannel one; they should also focus on some of the easier-to-execute aspects of customer experience like establishing core values, identifying the most commonly used channels and improving their email efforts.

Now it looks like innovation is about putting a chip into any object. I’m not sure the word ‘smart’ makes more sense before the word toothbrush than the word potato.”. Nevertheless, Baldeck’s smart potato now has its own campaign on Indiegogo, through which “spec-taters” can provide funding.

The compatible tools and software development kits (SDKs), from which the first app was launched last month in Switzerland, enable Bluetooth chips in more than 3 billion iOS and Android smartphones in use around the world to voluntarily track the proximity of coronavirus patients. Both companies vowed to not collect identifiable information and will shut down the tracker when the crisis is over.