Whatever problems some Visa cardholders had using Apple Pay during a service outage earlier this week, it was likely a drop in the bucket relative to the overall low usage of the mobile wallet. Among the findings from a consumer survey on mobile payments in...
There is little worse than getting one’s momentum muted. No, we aren’t talking about the 2016 presidential race. We’re talking about Apple (this is the Apple Pay Tracker, after all), which seemed to be working itself up into a nice little run of some positive...
Apple Pay users who attempted to link their Visa cards to the service may have had some difficulty doing so recently. For about seven hours yesterday (Feb. 10), reports 9to5Mac, a glitch within Apple’s mobile wallet prevented users from setting it up — at least as...
Since Apple’s Q1 call last week — and their first ever announcement that iPhone sales would likely be posting a year-over-year decline in sales next quarter — well, the market has been “all shook-up,” to say the least. So much so that Google was...
After grim predictions from Apple’s supply chain kicked off a widespread panic that the iPhone is headed for a downturn, it seems some new information might just take some of the sting out of that news. Forecast trends in the demand for flexible PCB (printed...
Bank of America and Wells Fargo are both in the midst of bringing Apple Pay to their ATMs, TechCrunch reported late last week. [bctt tweet=”Coming soon to ATMs near you: Apple Pay”] The tech publication said the information came from an unnamed source that it...
There is an old saying, alternately attributed to Bob Newhart, Tom Lehrer, The New Yorker and the New Statesman that sums up the news about Apple in a post–earnings week: “Well other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the the play?” Seems like a pretty good go-to. iPhone sales were...
After weeks of waiting and endless speculation, Apple’s Q1 results are in. It looks like the speculation won’t be ending anytime soon. While not the victory march that last year’s Q1 earnings report was, CEO Tim Cook at no point mentioned it being the “Year...
The magic of the power of the Chinese middle class – with its rapid growth, enthusiasm for commerce and future looking ideas about payments – has scarcely needed to be sold to anyone anywhere for the last decade. But these days, with the Chinese stock...
