Wall Street is starting to notice the many benefactors of payments changed fueled by Apple Pay and at the top of that list is now VeriFone, reports Barron’s. The rationale is that Apple Pay will push a new wave of POS upgrades to support NFC....
Apple is talking with multiple companies about using Apple Pay’s NFC to replace public transit tickets as well as building keycards, according to a report in The Information. Apple is talking with HID Global and Cubic, which both specialize in making secure keycard building access and...
MasterCard launched its Nearby App as a companion app for Apple Pay, enabling consumers to locate the 220,000+ merchants in the United States that can currently accept contactless payments.
Ring, ring. Hi, Rite Aid. This is CurrentC (or a CurrentC rep) calling. You might not remember this since it was a few years and several marketing executives ago, but you signed a contract that pledged your undying and exclusive love to our own proprietary...
The Scariest Things In Payments Friday is Halloween, a holiday in the U.S. that involves people – young and old – dressing up in (sometimes) scary costumes and going door to door “trick or treat-ing” for candy. It’s a pretty big deal where I live...
Apple in general—and the iPhone in particular—is having an outsized impact on the U.S. and global economies, according to a provocative piece in The New York Times. The argument goes like this: Apple is the world’s largest company, when measured by market capitalization and it...
Amazon’s Rewards Visa Card works with Apple Pay after all. On Friday morning (Oct. 24), TechCrunch said it had numerous reports from users that their Amazon Rewards cards were no longer being rejected when they tried to register them with Apple’s new payments system. That...
When exploring global expansion for Apple Pay, China is the highest priority for Apple CEO Tim Cook, even though the service has yet to launch there. Cook, in an interview with China’s influential Xinhua News Agency, said that he wants to understand the Chinese payment...
After weeks of waiting and speculating, Apple Pay went live and the payments industry stood back and watched things play out. Something wonderful happened- lots of people suddenly took lots of interest in mobile payments and a small army appeared on Twitter to pay by...
