This week’s Weekly Wire features Uber’s stand alone food delivery app, Walmart’s Apple Pay competitor, and consumers’ growing adoption of retail apps.
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UberHop is Uber’s latest idea for killing mass transit
Airbnb officially confirms gargantuan $1.5B funding round in SEC filing
Uber just launched a food-delivery app, and it looks like a Seamless killer
Payments
Walmart launches its own take on mobile pay
Samsung Pay’s gift card platform expands to 50 merchants
3 key steps to scale your customer payments globally
Mobile Apps
Retail apps are finally gaining ground with shoppers
Top App Predictions of 2016: From tvOS and Google Now on tap, apps are eating the web
Facebook is adding an offline news feed to its mobile apps
