Apple hasn’t exactly been shy about evangelizing its payment platform to anyone willing to listen, and a new Apple Pay expansion proves that it’ll cross geographic and language barriers to do it. As of Monday (April 18), Singapore is the latest country to enter the international...
According to reports by Bloomberg, Apple has impanelled a secret team to start exploring how to give the App Store its next big upgrade. Those upgrades may include a mechanism for charging developers for how prominently their apps are displayed. The model essentially takes a page...
This week, Facebook managed to shake — if not break — the Internet with its announcement that bots are coming to Messenger. Or, at least, they will be if developers choose to build them. The official announcement out of the F8 conference about the world’s...
While contrasting views on display is an expected part of a presidential race, 2016 has managed the rare feat of coming down to five human beings running for the highest office in the land who somehow seem to share absolutely no common views with each...
After some months playing the part of the holdout, Barclays has joined the rest of the U.K.’s big banks and thrown its lot in with Apple Pay. The bank had been slow to sign on with Apple’s mobile payments platform, instead choosing to favor focusing...
In most of America, winter is giving way to spring this week; though, in New England, it looks like the winter season will be enjoying its final curtain call this weekend. This means residents of the Northeast will have something in common with the team...
It’s been said that there are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. In the world of corporate communications, it can be difficult to separate that last one from the first two, and when it comes to Apple Pay adoption numbers, one figure that seems...
Huawei Technologies, the Chinese handset giant, has been taking steps to push its mobile payment service even further into that country, which means that the field is getting a bit more crowded for Apple Pay — right where the largest smartphone market in the world resides,...
About 18 months ago, Apple Pay awakened the world to the possibilities and potential of using a mobile phone as a replacement for a plastic card at the physical point of sale. Could Apple succeed where so many had failed? The world watched, waited and...
