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Google and Softcard tie-up benefits versus Apple Pay are overstated

Wednesday, January 21, 2015 1:34 pm9 Comments

Google Wallet is awkward to use. To the cashier, it looked like I was some jerk holding up the line…

Google in talks to scrape up beleaguered Apple Pay roadkill Softcard (née Isis)

Saturday, January 17, 2015 12:01 pmSaturday, January 17, 20158 Comments

Beleaguered Apple Pay wannabe Softcard earlier this month laid off about 60 employees…

CBS News: Apple Pay in the driver’s seat

Wednesday, December 31, 2014 3:02 pmWednesday, December 31, 20145 Comments

In other good news for car-and-iPhone-6 owners…

Square to accept Apple Pay in 2015

Friday, November 21, 2014 4:02 pmFriday, November 21, 201431 Comments

The mobile payments company Square is planning to accept Apple Pay…

Note to CVS, Rite-Aid, Walmart: Apple Pay users spend big

Friday, November 21, 2014 3:01 pmFriday, November 21, 201417 Comments

Apple Pay iPhone users were three times more comfortable with spending…

Major retailers see Apple Pay wave

Monday, November 17, 2014 11:58 amMonday, November 17, 201414 Comments

For years, tech companies have dreamed of a future in which people ditch their wallets…

In only 3 weeks, Apple Pay is changing how consumers pay

Monday, November 17, 2014 8:33 am13 Comments

In October, Apple released their NFC-powered payment platform, Apple Pay…

You can now use Apple Pay for parking, rent and at more retail locations

Friday, November 14, 2014 7:00 pmFriday, November 14, 201415 Comments

Apple Pay launched in the United States last month with support…

Is it time to cut bait on banks excluded from Apple Pay?

Friday, November 14, 2014 5:32 pm39 Comments

The brutal fact is that Apple has enrolled 15 goliath financial institutions in Apple Pay…

RBC Poll: Apply may grab 20% of payments by 2019

Friday, November 14, 2014 12:56 pm12 Comments

Apple’s breakthrough Apple Pay payments platform will grab…

Apple’s breakthrough Apple Pay, new chip credit-card standard should help protect consumers

Friday, November 14, 2014 10:57 amFriday, November 14, 201419 Comments

Counterfeiting of bank-issued credit and debit cards is likely to fall precipitously during the next few years…

Apple Pay vs. MCX’s CurrentC: Convenience vs. greed

Friday, November 14, 2014 10:38 amFriday, November 14, 201420 Comments

Most critics of CurrentC (and there are plenty) are slamming it…

Regions Bank adds support for Apple Pay

Wednesday, November 12, 2014 2:27 pmWednesday, November 12, 201412 Comments

Following a second round of banks adding support for the Apple Pay…

Apple Pay has retail CIOs rethinking how customers pay

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 1:57 pmTuesday, November 11, 201414 Comments

The introduction of Apple Pay…

Apple and Alibaba in talks over electronic payments alliance

Tuesday, November 11, 2014 9:25 amTuesday, November 11, 20148 Comments

Any such partnership could be a formidable force in China…

Apple Pay consumers can now use their Barclays, Navy Federal and USAA MasterCard

Monday, November 10, 2014 10:15 amMonday, November 10, 20149 Comments

MasterCard cardholders with a consumer credit or debit card from Barclaycard, Navy Federal Credit Union and USAA…

Apple Pay now available for U.S. Bank customers

Monday, November 10, 2014 9:55 amMonday, November 10, 20147 Comments

U.S. Bank customers now have a safer, more convenient way to pay: Apple Pay…

Lessons from Home Depot: Expect hackers to crack more retailers this holiday season

Friday, November 7, 2014 11:25 amFriday, November 7, 201421 Comments

What should consumers do? Use Apple’s secure Apple Pay…

Class action lawsuit brewing against retailers who block Apple Pay

Thursday, November 6, 2014 2:57 pmThursday, November 6, 201424 Comments

Rite Aid and CVS may face a class action for blocking Apple Pay…

What Apple Pay means to Bank of America: Security

Thursday, November 6, 2014 1:55 pmThursday, November 6, 201419 Comments

Hari Gopalkrishnan, Bank of America’s e-commerce executive, talks about…

Apple Pay is nirvana for (smart) retailers

Thursday, November 6, 2014 9:26 amThursday, November 6, 201410 Comments

Appel Pay is nirvana for merchants

Entrepreneur warns retailers, restaurants, bars: Do not wait, jump on the Apple Pay bandwagon ASAP

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 4:27 pmWednesday, November 5, 201434 Comments

The sooner you jump on the Apple Pay craze the better…

Apple Pay fuels usage of long-moribund Google Wallet

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 1:58 pmWednesday, November 5, 201415 Comments

NFC-based mobile payments have had a boost in recent months…

After CVS and Rite Aid blocked Apple Pay, Schubert law firm launches antitrust investigation

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 4:55 pmTuesday, November 4, 201431 Comments

Schubert Jonckheer & Kolbe is investigating whether CVS and Rite Aid violated the antitrust laws…

Sorry, Walmart, CVS, Rite-Aid et al. — Apple Pay and NFC have already won

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 1:37 pmTuesday, November 4, 201442 Comments

Apple Pay is the safer bet for consumers…

With Apple Pay breakthrough, everybody wins

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 10:58 am16 Comments

Apple Pay is a big leap forward…

Walt Mossberg dumps CVS for Walgreens over Apple Pay

Tuesday, November 4, 2014 9:56 amTuesday, November 4, 201448 Comments

I’ve been taking more of my shopping down the road to CVS’s main rival, Walgreens…

Why some retailers are afraid of Apple Pay

Monday, November 3, 2014 5:27 pmMonday, November 3, 201454 Comments

Some retailers are rejecting Apple Pay out of fear that Apple’s newer, safer payment system…

Apple Pay support added by US Bank, Barclaycard, PNC, M&T Bank, and more

Monday, November 3, 2014 1:58 pmMonday, November 3, 201417 Comments

US Bank and Navy Federal have just confirmed Apple Pay support…

Apple Pay vastly superior and much better positioned than MCX’s CurrentC

Saturday, November 1, 2014 11:15 amSaturday, November 1, 201433 Comments

Apple Pay is a vastly superior product to the CurrentC app being pushed by MCX…

CurrentC, MCX retailers’ answer to Apple Pay, faces doom

Friday, October 31, 2014 5:01 pmFriday, October 31, 201482 Comments

The odds that you’ll ever see CurrentC rolled out nationally are slim to none…

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…

MasterCard, Visa report strong growth as consumers embrace Apple Pay

Thursday, October 30, 2014 4:01 pmThursday, October 30, 201414 Comments

MasterCard, along with Visa and others, has joined with Apple on its Apple Pay mobile payments platform…

Meijer first to break MCX ranks, keeps Apple Pay support at its 213 stores

Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:58 pmThursday, October 30, 201428 Comments

With a wave of your iPhone 6 or the soon-to-be-released Apple Watch, you can buy groceries or fill up your gas tank at Meijer…

Feeling the heat, MCX CurrentC consortium suggests possible future switch to NFC

Thursday, October 30, 2014 9:59 am53 Comments

The movement to boycott merchants who are members of the MCX consortium…

Analyst: CurrentC retailers likely to blink and support Apple Pay

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 6:45 pm47 Comments

Looking at 2013 sales from the top 100 U.S. retailers…

Why CurrentC will beat out Apple Pay in the end

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 5:58 pm97 Comments

By all accounts, Apple Pay is the smoothest, most technically advanced payment solution…

How to punish Walmart, CVS, Rite Aid, and others who block Apple Pay

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:56 pmWednesday, October 29, 201462 Comments

Beyond simply refusing to shop in their stores, if you find yourself in a store you didn’t know was blocking Apple Pay…

Apple and Alibaba: A dream matchup and potential nightmare for Amazon?

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:55 pmWednesday, October 29, 201412 Comments

Will Apple Inc. and Alibaba…

iPhone users and Android settlers raid reviews of CurrentC payments app

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:28 pmWednesday, October 29, 201432 Comments

Many retailers have been less than responsive to the Apple Pay…

Retailer-backed MCX Apple Pay rival has already been hacked; testers’ email addresses stolen

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:58 pmWednesday, October 29, 201434 Comments

MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange), the coalition of retailers including Walmart, Best Buy, Gap and others, has been hacked…

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