Apple Pay

Reading The Apple Patent Tea Leaves
June 26, 2015

As the most profitable and best capitalized company in the world, it is utterly unsurprising that the subject of what Apple is going to do next never fails to interest — a situation doubtlessly egged on in no small measure by the fact that Apple is...

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Mobile Apps Drive Big Returns For UK eCommerce Market
June 26, 2015

Criteo, an eCommerce marketing tech vendor, published its latest report on mobile adoption, saying it continues to grow at record speed – and in the U.K. especially. In its 2015 Q1 report, Japan, South Korea and the U.K. – in that order – were the...

UK Apple Pay Contactless Spending Limit Challenge
June 25, 2015

Apple Pay’s expansion into the U.K. will start next month with 250,000 merchant locations accepting the mobile payment option. And while some say that 2015 will be “the year of Apple Pay,” Apple’s recently published FAQ on how things will actually work has dampened the general mood...

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Security’s Less Than Stellar Week
June 19, 2015

It is hard to say enough good things about human ingenuity — written language, currency, flight, space travel and pocket-sized supercomputers all exist because someone (or a group of someones) saw an attainable goal where everyone else saw an insurmountable obstacle. But the problem with...

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Apple Pay’s Moves And News
May 25, 2015

Welcome to Day No. 218 of Apple Pay. You probably haven’t been counting quite as meticulously as we have here at PYMNTS about what’s happened since Day 1 of Apple Pay, but we‘ve tracked every move along the way. From Day 1 when a few...

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Will Payments Be Apple’s Summer Story?
May 22, 2015

While late 2014 and early 2015 were largely “The Apple Pay Show,” as far as Apple fans, financial services geeks and tech bloggers were concerned — by Spring new favorites had cropped up to steal some of that laser-like focus on Apple’s foray into the...

Discover Joining Apple Pay In Fall
April 28, 2015

Discover cardholders can soon use those cards to make mobile payments via Apple Pay. The issuer announced yesterday (April 27) that Discover had reached an agreement with Apple to allow Discover’s cardholders to use Apple Pay for both the iPhone 6/iPhone 6 Plus and the...

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Apple Pay Makes Headway With Canadian Banks
April 17, 2015

Negotiations with Apple and Canadian banks to launch Apple Pay north of the U.S. border could have the mobile payment service up and running in Canada as early as November, The Wall Street Journal reported. This move would be the first step in Apple Pay...

Apple Pay’s Business Model Blues
April 17, 2015

There is no shortage of things to say about Apple Pay — which is why we developed an entire Tracker on the subject. However, for all the focus on the technology powering Apple Pay, the security that keeps its payments credentials airtight, how many consumers use...