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Google in talks to scrape up beleaguered Apple Pay roadkill Softcard (née Isis)
Beleaguered Apple Pay wannabe Softcard earlier this month laid off about 60 employees…
CBS News: Apple Pay in the driver’s seat
In other good news for car-and-iPhone-6 owners…
Square to accept Apple Pay in 2015
The mobile payments company Square is planning to accept Apple Pay…
Note to CVS, Rite-Aid, Walmart: Apple Pay users spend big
Apple Pay iPhone users were three times more comfortable with spending…
Major retailers see Apple Pay wave
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
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
Apple Pay launched in the United States last month with support…
Is it time to cut bait on banks excluded from Apple Pay?
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
Apple’s breakthrough Apple Pay payments platform will grab…
Apple’s breakthrough Apple Pay, new chip credit-card standard should help protect consumers
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
Most critics of CurrentC (and there are plenty) are slamming it…
Regions Bank adds support for Apple Pay
Following a second round of banks adding support for the Apple Pay…
Apple Pay has retail CIOs rethinking how customers pay
The introduction of Apple Pay…
Apple and Alibaba in talks over electronic payments alliance
Any such partnership could be a formidable force in China…
Apple Pay consumers can now use their Barclays, Navy Federal and USAA MasterCard
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
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
What should consumers do? Use Apple’s secure Apple Pay…
Class action lawsuit brewing against retailers who block Apple Pay
Rite Aid and CVS may face a class action for blocking Apple Pay…
What Apple Pay means to Bank of America: Security
Hari Gopalkrishnan, Bank of America’s e-commerce executive, talks about…
Apple Pay is nirvana for (smart) retailers
Appel Pay is nirvana for merchants
Entrepreneur warns retailers, restaurants, bars: Do not wait, jump on the Apple Pay bandwagon ASAP
The sooner you jump on the Apple Pay craze the better…
Apple Pay fuels usage of long-moribund Google Wallet
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
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
Apple Pay is the safer bet for consumers…
With Apple Pay breakthrough, everybody wins
Apple Pay is a big leap forward…
Walt Mossberg dumps CVS for Walgreens over Apple Pay
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
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
US Bank and Navy Federal have just confirmed Apple Pay support…
Apple Pay vastly superior and much better positioned than MCX’s CurrentC
Apple Pay is a vastly superior product to the CurrentC app being pushed by MCX…
CurrentC, MCX retailers’ answer to Apple Pay, faces doom
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
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
Alipay is China’s most popular online payment system used for online purchases…
MasterCard, Visa report strong growth as consumers embrace Apple Pay
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
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
The movement to boycott merchants who are members of the MCX consortium…
Analyst: CurrentC retailers likely to blink and support Apple Pay
Looking at 2013 sales from the top 100 U.S. retailers…
Why CurrentC will beat out Apple Pay in the end
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
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?
Will Apple Inc. and Alibaba…
iPhone users and Android settlers raid reviews of CurrentC payments app
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
MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange), the coalition of retailers including Walmart, Best Buy, Gap and others, has been hacked…
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