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Apple Pay to go live in China on February 18th

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 8:29 am3 Comments

Apple Inc’s Apple Pay mobile payment system will be available in China from Feb. 18 for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd…

As it passes 2 million locations, does Apple Pay really matter?

Thursday, February 11, 2016 5:22 pmThursday, February 11, 201620 Comments

In the weeks since Apple’s earnings, a number of metrics have come to light that testify to Apple Pay’s impressive growth…

For Apple Pay, the future is apps

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 8:55 amWednesday, February 10, 20166 Comments

While most attention has been paid to which retail stores have started accepting Apple Pay…

Apple Pay support reaches 1,000 U.S. banks and credit unions

Friday, February 5, 2016 4:35 pm3 Comments

On Friday, Apple added another 32 US financial institutions on its Apple Pay partner site…

Apple Pay locations reach 2 million, with Chick-Fil-A to come

Thursday, February 4, 2016 4:54 pmThursday, February 4, 201611 Comments

Apple Inc. said its mobile-payment service is now available in more than 2 million retail locations…

As more pay by iPhone, banks scramble to keep up

Wednesday, January 20, 2016 5:08 pm17 Comments

Mr. Craine, a 28-year-old tech support worker in Washington, D.C., uses Apple Pay at the stores and restaurants…

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…

Pay Finders app for finding Apple Pay locations reports 750% increase in users in two days

Monday, December 28, 2015 9:56 amMonday, December 28, 20154 Comments

A new app designed to crowdsource an interactive map of businesses that accept Apple Pay…

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…

Apple partners with UnionPay to launch Apple Pay in China

Thursday, December 17, 2015 10:11 pmFriday, December 18, 20152 Comments

Apple and China UnionPay today announced a partnership to bring Apple Pay, which transforms mobile payments…

Apple Pay still frozen out as Australia banks agree to Android Pay deal

Wednesday, December 16, 2015 8:25 amThursday, December 17, 201517 Comments

Big Australian banks have agreed to accept payments made on mobile devices using Google Inc’s Android Pay…

Apple Pay and wannabes must offer perks to grow

Monday, December 14, 2015 4:03 pm23 Comments

Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Alphabet’s Android Pay and other mobile wallet offerings…

Walmart announces kludgy ‘Walmart Pay’ based on QR codes, but stays open to Apple Pay

Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:25 pmThursday, December 10, 201518 Comments

The move comes as CurrentC, the Apple Pay rival notably backed by Wal-Mart and other retailers, continues to face delays…

Walmart to roll out ‘Walmart Pay’ QR code-based mobile payment system in 2016

Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:55 amThursday, December 10, 201533 Comments

Wal-Mart = Android. Just sayin’…

Apple struggles to persuade Australia’s big banks to join Apple Pay

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 5:44 pm33 Comments

Apple Inc is struggling to persuade Australia’s big banks to sign up for its Apple Pay mobile payment system…

Apple Pay usage at its lowest rate ever (among Americans who willingly share photos of their receipts)

Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:04 amWednesday, December 2, 201531 Comments

We wanted to find out if this Black Friday would be the shot heard round the world for mobile payments…

Pay Finders app for iPhone shows you where Apple Pay is accepted

Tuesday, December 1, 2015 3:27 pmTuesday, December 1, 20158 Comments

You love Apple Pay, but where can you use it?

Apple’s Touch ID is the gift that keeps on giving

Monday, November 30, 2015 10:37 pm12 Comments

All you actually have to do to use Apple Pay is hold your iPhone near the register with your finger on the Touch ID ‘home’ button…

JC Penney testing Apple Pay support for its credit cards, nationwide rollout coming in spring 2016

Monday, November 30, 2015 2:25 pmMonday, November 30, 2015No Comments

JCPenney has started testing its store credit cards with Apple’s Apple Pay payments service…

Aussie consumers lose as banks effectively boycott Apple Pay

Friday, November 27, 2015 1:32 pmFriday, November 27, 201522 Comments

he Reserve Bank has been urged to examine potential anti-competitive behavior…

Apple reaches agreement to bring Apple Pay to China, sources say

Wednesday, November 25, 2015 2:10 pm1 Comment

China UnionPay Co. and Apple Inc. have reached a preliminary agreement to introduce Apple Pay in China…

Apple seeks to launch Apple Pay in China by February

Tuesday, November 24, 2015 8:14 amTuesday, November 24, 20151 Comment

Apple Inc. seeks by early February to launch its new Apple Pay electronic-payment service in China…

Banking apps accessed via smartwatches to exceed 100 million by 2020, as millennials change banking habits

Monday, November 23, 2015 5:23 pm3 Comments

The global number of banking apps accessed via smartwatches will reach the 10 million mark in 2017, rising to more than 100 million by 2020…

Apple Pay now available to merchants on the GlobalOnePay platform

Thursday, November 19, 2015 3:30 pmThursday, November 19, 2015No Comments

To begin accepting Apple Pay, Canadian GlobalOnePay merchants just need to show buyers that Apple Pay is now an accepted…

Apples’ revolutionary Apple Pay expands to Canada and Australia

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 8:52 am5 Comments

Apple’s year-old mobile-payments service is expanding to more countries, banks and merchants….

Apple Pay expected to launch in Canada on Tuesday with iOS 9.2

Monday, November 16, 2015 2:52 pmMonday, November 16, 201510 Comments

Apple Pay may land in a third country as soon as Tuesday…

Apple, Google, and Amazon unite behind ‘Financial Innovation Now’ coalition

Tuesday, November 3, 2015 12:01 pmTuesday, November 3, 20156 Comments

Three of the technology industry’s fiercest rivals – Amazon, Apple and Google – have aligned behind their shared business interest…

Clunky, convoluted, invasive Chase Pay cannot compete with Apple Pay

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 2:01 pmTuesday, October 27, 20159 Comments

Big retail is looking to carve out a piece of the mobile payments pie, where competitors like Apple Pay…

Chase takes aim at Apple Pay with new ‘Chase Pay’ mobile payments service

Monday, October 26, 2015 9:43 pmMonday, October 26, 201524 Comments

JPMorgan Chase, one of the world’s biggest banks, on Monday announced a new mobile payments service…

Apple CEO Tim Cook’s wild prediction about 2015 is looking less and less absurd

Thursday, October 22, 2015 11:11 amThursday, October 22, 201520 Comments

We shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss Cook’s claim outright. The year 2015 could turn out to be a major inflection point…

Apple Pay adds over 70 new U.S. banks and credit unions

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 1:27 pmTuesday, October 20, 201512 Comments

Apple Pay is picking up a huge wave of newly added banks and credit unions across the United States…

Apple Pay should benefit immensely from Starbucks partnership, international expansion

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 12:02 pmWednesday, October 14, 201515 Comments

Apple is continuing to extend the reach of its Apple Pay service…

Bank website outs Apple Pay debut in Canada

Tuesday, October 13, 2015 4:46 pmTuesday, October 13, 20157 Comments

We’ve already seen numerous payment processors advertise Apple Pay support…

Apple Pay is coming to Starbucks, but will users earn points?

Friday, October 9, 2015 4:55 pmFriday, October 9, 201515 Comments

Apple Pay is finally coming to Starbucks’ U.S. stores by year-end, more than a year after Apple launched its mobile wallet…

Starbucks, KFC, and Chili’s to accept Apple Pay this year

Thursday, October 8, 2015 11:10 pm13 Comments

Apple’s service, launched a year ago at about 220,000 U.S. locations including McDonald’s and Macy’s…

Barclays to bring Apple Pay to the UK in early 2016

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 1:02 pm7 Comments

The rumors of the ‘imminent’ arrival are not quite accurate and it would appear customers wanting Apple Pay will

So far, Tim Cook’s ‘Year of Apple Pay’ has been rather underwhelming

Monday, October 5, 2015 12:56 pmMonday, October 5, 201543 Comments

More than 75 percent of iPhone 6 and 6 Plus users hadn’t tried Apple Pay as of April…

Customer patience to be tested as EMV Joins Apple Pay at cash register

Wednesday, September 30, 2015 3:43 pmWednesday, September 30, 201523 Comments

The best part for the consumer, aside from the security enhancements with EMV chips, is that the checkout experience is about to become much more exciting. By exciting I mean tedious and terrible…

Some Best Buy stores are now accepting Apple Pay

Friday, September 18, 2015 4:47 pm9 Comments

You’ll soon be able to use Apple Pay in a lot more retailers…

Discover card now Apple Pay compatible; users get extra 10% Cashback Bonus for using Apple Pay

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 3:25 pmWednesday, September 16, 201514 Comments

Discover cardmembers are now able to add their Discover cards to Apple Pay, the easy, secure and private way to make contactless payments…

Apple Pay surpasses 500 U.S. banks milestone

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 4:56 pmTuesday, September 15, 201513 Comments

Apple on Tuesday added 46 US banks to its list of Apple Pay backers, putting the total over 500…

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