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Apple discounts iPhone in China amid intense competition

Thursday, January 2, 2025 8:57 am1 Comment

To combat increasing competition from domestic brands like Huawei, Apple is offering limited-time discounts of up to 500 yuan…

Apple offers rare iPhone promo with 4 days of discounts in China

Monday, July 25, 2022 8:46 am1 Comment

Apple on Monday announced a rare retail promotion in China on Monday, offering four days of discounts on its premium iPhones and related…

President Trump bars U.S. transactions with eight Chinese apps

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 12:30 pm13 Comments

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps, including…

Trump administration explores restrictions on Chinese Alipay and WeChat payment platforms

Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:12 pm33 Comments

Trump administration mulls possibly restricting the expansion of Ant Group’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat Pay over concerns…

Looking to juice sales, Apple teams with Ant Financial, banks for interest-free iPhone financing in China

Friday, February 22, 2019 10:58 amFriday, February 22, 20192 Comments

Apple Inc has teamed up with Chinese payments giant Ant Financial Services Group and several local banks…

Apple China: Buy a new iPhone for less than $30 a month, interest free via Alipay

Thursday, February 21, 2019 5:33 pmThursday, February 21, 20194 Comments

Apple Inc., hoping to revitalize sales in China, has paired up with the world’s largest…

Analyst: Apple may be headed for ‘serious ramifications’ from ‘superapps’ like WeChat in China

Friday, January 25, 2019 12:01 pmFriday, January 25, 20193 Comments

A recent update of the WeChat app from Chinese tech juggernaut Tencent…

Hackers are using stolen Apple IDs to swipe cash in China, Alipay and WePay warn

Thursday, October 11, 2018 8:24 pm6 Comments

Ant Financial’s Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd. warned that cyber-attackers employed stolen Apple IDs…

Apple and Tencent reach deal to let WeChat users tip each other

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 8:25 amTuesday, January 16, 20182 Comments

Apple Inc. and Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. have settled their tiff over tips…

Apple approves Tencent’s WeChat Pay for App Store purchases in China

Thursday, August 31, 2017 8:55 am3 Comments

Apple Inc. is now allowing Chinese customers to use popular local mobile-payment system WeChat Pay…

Apple Pay a massive hit in China: Just one of 19 banks reports 3 million cards added in first 2 days

Thursday, March 3, 2016 11:00 amThursday, March 3, 201610 Comments

China this month became the fifth country where consumers can use smartphones to pay with Apple Pay, and Chinese shoppers quickly embraced the Apple Inc. payment system…

Apple Pay will help China’s mammoth state banks crush Alibaba offline

Thursday, February 18, 2016 8:25 amThursday, February 18, 20166 Comments

Apple Pay goes live in China today…

Apple Pay picks up 58 new US card issuers, approaches 1,000 total banks and credit unions

Tuesday, January 5, 2016 1:12 pm9 Comments

The expanded list includes a mix conventional banks and credit unions…

Why Apple’s revolutionary Apple Pay is going to be absolutely enormous

Friday, December 18, 2015 2:56 pmFriday, December 18, 201510 Comments

Apple is humiliating Wall Street’s analysts and the mainstream media because both lack the lexicon to understand…

Apple Pay to take on Tencent’s WeChat Wallet and Alipay in China

Friday, December 18, 2015 8:36 amFriday, December 18, 20152 Comments

Apple will partner with China’s main bank card and payment firm UnionPay, a state-controlled consortium that has a monopoly…

Alibaba’s Alipay adds Apple Touch ID support

Wednesday, December 10, 2014 9:58 amWednesday, December 10, 201413 Comments

Alibaba and Apple, whose bosses expressed an interest in marrying their respective…

Juniper Research: Apple Pay cracks ‘vicious cycle of indifference,’ to drive NFC market adoption

Friday, October 31, 2014 3:07 pm21 Comments

Apple Pay will not only drive, but will create a ‘halo effect’ towards contactless payment in general…

Policy change in China helps potential Alipay, Apple Pay hook up

Friday, October 31, 2014 10:58 amFriday, October 31, 20147 Comments

Alipay is China’s most popular online payment system used for online purchases…

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