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Mobile Minutes: Snapchat geofilters; Samsung Pay in Brazil; Vevo’s new app; Sainsbury trials one-hour delivery

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Samsung brings mobile payments to Brazil in time for Olympics
Samsung Electronics Co. is introducing its mobile-payments app in Brazil, a bet that the Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro can be a springboard to more markets in Latin America where phones have become a key gateway to the web.
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Vevo seeks growth with new music video app
About 400 million people each month watch music videos presented by Vevo LLC, the digital-ad-sales platform founded seven years ago by the world’s two biggest record companies.
Read more on The Wall Street Journal

Britain’s Sainsbury’s trials similar concept to Amazon’s Prime Now
Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second largest supermarket group, is trialing a one hour home delivery service that is similar in concept to Amazon’s ‘Prime Now’, it said on Friday.
Read more on Reuters