Tag: UnionPay

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…

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…

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 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…

China’s iPhone users must wait for Apple Pay as UnionPay talks falter

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 5:27 pmTuesday, April 14, 20156 Comments

China’s iPhone users will have to wait some more to use the Apple Pay payment system…

Apple Pay rumored to launch in China in April

Monday, March 23, 2015 2:56 pmMonday, March 23, 20156 Comments

Apple is said to have reached an agreement with China UnionPay…

Apple Pay’s China rollout reportedly stalled

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 12:56 pm6 Comments

China’s central bank, UnionPay bank-card service and e-commerce giant Alibaba…

Apple Adds UnionPay payment option for App Store Customers in China

Sunday, November 16, 2014 11:44 pm7 Comments

Apple today announced that the App Store has added UnionPay as a payment option …