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Apple To Get Rebates From Issuers on Fees
Controversial // September 05, 2014

Apple has reportedly negotiated deals with several leading issuers to extend card present rates to Apple for all transactions involving their cards with Apple’s new mobile payments scheme. On top of that concession, they have agreed to give Apple back part of the card present...

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Square Cash’s New Lease on Life

October 08, 2014
Square is now singing the Bluetooth Blues, having rolled out on Tuesday (Oct. 7) an iOS 8 BLE-empowered way to send cash to nearby people, called Nearby Payments. “Cash users can configure their nearby visibility in the updated app so that they’re visible only to their contacts or to everyone. The latter would make sense […]