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Can Apple Push Past Early Adopters?
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison Thomas Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park, is...
- Apple Pay
Wanna Know How Many Apple Pay Users There Are?
Wanna know how many Apple Pay users there are? Of course you do. And we did the math. Tim Cook dropped a...
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Apple PayApple Pay In The UK
Coming out of the All-Star game last weekend, it is surprising that the curveball of the week didn’t come out of baseball....
- Apple Pay
The Summer Of (Apple Phone) Speculation
Ever since J.R. Ewing took a bullet in 1980, the summer has been the season for speculation. Even though we all binge-watch...
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Apple PaySecurity’s Less Than Stellar Week
It is hard to say enough good things about human ingenuity — written language, currency, flight, space travel and pocket-sized supercomputers all...
- Cool
Apple Gets “Proactive”
Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is set to kick off in about 10 days in San Francisco. If you’d like to watch the...
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CoolApple’s Freemium Fight
In 2003, Apple changed the face of music with the back-to-back releases of the iTunes store and the iPod. Apple did not...
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Is MCX’s Loss Apple’s Gain?
There are two things that can be taken as certainly true coming out of the final days of April 2015. 1. It...
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ControversialThe Many Ways Apple Could Spend All That Cash
Most people at some point in their life dream about what they would do if they were suddenly super rich. We think...
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ControversialInside Apple Pay’s In-App Performance
When people ask – “how hard is payments?” – there are a variety of ways to answer that question. There’s the simple...
- Exclusive Series
Apple’s Troubled March Concludes With Problems At The POS
There is an old adage that says “March goes in like a lion but goes out like a lamb,” that one could...
- Controversial
Apple Pay Adoption: Improving, But Still A Long Way To Go
A little under four months ago, the payments ecosystem got something of a surprise when a first round of Apple Pay adoption...
- Cool
Chase Commerce President Talks Chase Pay
Though conventional wisdom says “you can’t be everything to everybody,” conventional wisdom may be due for a digital-age upgrade. “Mobile obviously,...
- Controversial
The Week Of Apple Pay Pick-Ups
The Apple Watch was undoubtedly the star of the show at Cupertino’s “Spring Forward” event on Monday (March 9) with the rest of...
- Karen Webster
Could Apple Pay Fraud Be A Sign Of Its Success?
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- Controversial
Why Apple’s Fraud Problem Is Bigger Than Apple
There’s an old saying, taken from a story in the Old Testament, that goes something like this – “Be ever cautious, every...
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Developing The Developers
Developers are the unseen engine that make digital payments and commerce possible. Why? Because behind every great app is a great developer....
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Inside Jet Blue’s Apple Pay Plan
In the United States each day, about 2 million people travel by air. On average, those travelers are in their late 40s and...
- Loyalty & Rewards
How Unattended Retail Doubled Apple Pay’s Merchant Footprint
When Tim Cook announced at Apple's last earnings that Apple Pay was being accepted at 200k new merchant locations, no one focused...
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Apple Pay: Love Notes And Dear John Letters
Valentine’s Day in 2015 is a bit unique – it is cursed. Or at least many people might believe it is cursed,...
- Exclusive Series
Visa, Apple Pay Paying Like A Pro At Super Bowl XLIX
A corporate slogan, in this case “it’s everywhere you want to be,” may never have been more literally true than it was...
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Apple Pay By The Numbers (Volume 6)
If Apple populated a city with all the people it has sold phones to since late 2014, that city would be eight...
- Acquiring
Payments Industry Pairings and Partings In 2015
Here we are – 19 days into a new year and midway in the month known apparently as “divorce month.” According to...
- Karen Webster
Will Apple Pay Bring Banks And Merchants Together?
Last week, I was given a copy of the UBS report on Apple Pay. It claims that the launch of Apple Pay...
- Controversial
Manhattan D.A. Says Apple-Level Security Hurts Consumers
If asked to name America’s greatest “outlaw” brand, it’s easy to imagine some familiar (and oddly similarly structured) there are probably lots...
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Impressions and Impacts Of Apple Pay’s First 100 Days
In just 113 days last year, Apple Pay managed to completely change the conversation about mobile payments. And we’ve been there for...
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HmmmApple Pay’s Impact On Payments
Steve Jobs reportedly once told Apple’s Mac development team, “It’s better to be a pirate than join the Navy.” When George Mallory...
- News
Is Apple Pay Fizzling? No Way Man, It’s Sizzling!
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -Mohandas Gandhi If the man doesn’t believe as we do, we say he...
- Apple Pay
iPhone Magnetized Accessories May Interfere With NFC
Some iPhone accessories that attach to the phone via magnets—an attachable better camera lens is an example—may disrupt NFC communications and, therefore,...
- Apple Pay
PYMNTS Talks Back About … Apple Pay
Variety, it is said, is the spice of life. And nowhere is variety more important than when it comes to having a...
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United Airlines, Flight Attendants And iPhone 6’s
United Airlines is making onboard purchases, accessing email and other internal information for flight attendants much easier by supplying their team of more...
- Apple Pay
MasterCard And Gwen Stefani tout ‘Priceless Surprises’ with the Help of Apple Pay
Grammy Award-winner Gwen Stefani is teaming up with MasterCard to take over the Priceless Surprises launch to support cardholders every time they...
- Apple Pay
Apple Pay And McDonald’s Employees Can’t Seem To Get Along
Apple Pay is not only confusing the heck out of the McDonald’s staff but it’s also leaving a bitter taste with iPhone...
- David S. Evans
Why Apple Pay Is Fizzling and What It Means for the Future of Mobile Payments
“When he rolls into a gas station to fill his tank, [Jack] doesn’t get out of his car. He punches a few...
- Apple Pay
Renters Can Now Use Apple Pay To Make Payments
RadPad wants to make it easy not only find an apartment, condo or home, but also to pay rent. And, now, those...
- Apple Pay
Former Apple CEO Says Apple Pay Will Define The Game
Former Apple CEO and author of “Moonshot!”, John Sculley believes Apple’s running with a momentum that won’t stop anytime soon. While second...
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Apple PaySecuring Payments For The Holidays
In the military, there is a concept called acceptable losses and it, candidly, calculates how many of your fighters are likely to...
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How Apple Pay Plans To Bump You To The Front Of The Line At Starbucks
The Apple Watch is expected to roll out in early 2015 but that isn’t stopping Impekable UI designers from mocking up potential new...
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NewsApple Pay a Bust on Black Friday, New Data Shows
More than 95 percent of iPhone 6 and 6+ users who could have paid with Apple Pay on Black Friday didn’t according...
- Acquiring
Apple Pay, By The Day
Hard to believe it was just 30 days ago that Apple Pay officially launched and even harder to believe how different the...
- Apple Pay
13 Execs on Apple Pay’s One Month Anniversary
Apple made its grand yet disruptive entrance into the payments ecosystem just 30 days ago. Since then, it’s stirred up a ton...
- Apple Pay
How Well Does Apple Pay Play With Others?
Apple Pay has been out and available to consumers for just about a month now, but the real test hasn’t started yet. The...
- Apple Pay
Apple Pay Featured In Chase First TV Spot
Apple Pay is starring in a new commercial from Chase Bank which features the indie band Bleachers. The spot was developed by...
- Apple Pay
Neiman Marcus Now In Apple Passbook
Neiman Marcus is helping customers stay informed this holiday season by enabling a mobile message campaign at select stores. Neiman Marcus will...
- Apple Pay
Chase Collaborates with David Guetta to Promote Apple Pay
Chase has tapped into a new target audience by teaming up with David Guetta to encourage iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus...
- Apple Pay
Sephora Launches Apple Pay Service In All Bay Area & Manhattan Locations
Sephora officially announced last week the adoption of Apple Pay at all Bay Area stores. Sephora also indicated that Apple Pay would...
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Apple PayGartner Says Apple Pay Security Not Being Fully Used
Gartner Security Analyst Avivah Litan is arguing that many Apple Pay transactions are missing the value of Apple’s security approach because of...
- Apple Pay
Apple Pay: The Road To Ubiquity
The one-month anniversary of Apple Pay’s official launch prompts the payments ecosystem to ask where we were, where we are, and where...
- Apple Pay
One Innovator’s View Of Apple Pay
We thought we’d take the conversation about Apple Pay and its impact on mobile payments to Silicon Valley – where it all...
- Apple Pay
Starwood’s CEO Dumped His PC for an iPad
Turns out, Tim Cook, CEO of Apple isn’t the only one all pumped up about running a company on an iPad, Starwood...
