The world was taken a bit by surprise this morning with the announcement that Apple was jumping into the ride-sharing economy in a particularly big and attention-grabbing way. The world’s most successful company made a ten-digit investment in China’s most successful ride-sharing service, Didi Chuxing....
Apple Pay has finally secured some major bank partners in Canada, bringing the mobile payments service beyond just the reach of American Express cardholders in the region. It was announced yesterday (May 10) that Apple has added Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Canadian Imperial...
In a move aimed at expanding its presence in Australia, tech juggernaut Apple has boosted its Apple Pay roster by bringing on ANZ, which has become the first bank in that country to back the mobile payment platform. Reuters reported on Wednesday (April 27) that...
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...
