Apple’s digital wallet Apple Pay is under fire for possible antitrust violations, adding to the previous scrutiny over alleged anticompetitive behavior in its App Store, according to a report in Financial Times on Friday (Dec. 18). Contactless payments have surged amid the coronavirus pandemic that...
Apple Pay users may soon be able to use a feature in the Wallet app to make payments by scanning a QR code. AppleInsider reports the new method would no longer require near field communication (NFC), the wireless data transfer that enables nearby devices to communicate without...
Apple Card — the iPhone-based credit product launched last summer by Goldman Sachs, Apple and Mastercard — is expected to be a hot topic on Goldman’s earnings call Wednesday (July 15). A look at recent activity around the card shows a good deal of innovation...
An outage at Apple prevented users from paying their bills and accessing other features on Sunday, April 26. However, the tech giant said the issue had been solved by the end of the day Sunday. The outage started at around 8:45 a.m. Users couldn’t lock...
Wells Fargo customers who use the Apple Pay card at its ATMs will get a $5 bonus, reports indicated on Thursday (March 5). To get the money, which will be credited to people’s statements, customers have to use a Wells Fargo ATM with Apple Pay...
Digital payments provider i2c is partnering with financial solution provider Najm to bring prepaid, reloadable cards to the Middle East. The collaboration will enable customers to make quick payments in stores, online and via mobile apps with Najm prepaid cards and the Apple Pay app...
Nike is offering 3 percent cash back to Apple Card users when a Nike product is purchased using Apple Pay, TechCrunch reported Monday (Nov. 25). The deal applies to all Nike products when purchases are made using the Apple Card through the Nike website, retail...
The EU is looking even further into possible antitrust violations regarding Apple, with regulators trying to find out if online sales companies were ordered to use the tech giant’s mobile payment service instead of rival services. An EU document seen by Reuters showed that the...
Looking at data can be a bit like watching the famous Japanese samurai film “Rashomon.” Different interpretations, different stories abound. And when it comes to Apple Pay, if you want to look at a set of numbers one way, a rousing success emerges five years...
