Apple Pay has taken the title as the most popular mobile payment platform in the United States. Per new data from eMarketer, Apple Pay has surpassed Starbucks in the US. Starbucks adopted mobile payments relatively early on, and incentivized users with rewards and features such as ordering ahead. As such, Apple Pay and other mobile […]
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This should be nifty if you’re living in Japan. iPhones running iOS 13 will be able to scan NFC chips in Japanese identity cards thanks to Apple’s inclusion of broader access to NFC chips via third-party apps. As a result, Japanese citizens will be able to scan their identity cards, storing the information on their […]
If you’re headed to Australia, this could come in handy. National Australia Bank (NAB) on Monday announced immediate support for Apple Pay, becoming the third of Australia’s “big four” banks to integrate with Apple’s payments platform after a failed boycott. NAB announced the launch via the following tweet to its official account: “It’s here. NAB […]
If you’re traveling to Australia in January, you might like this. While Apple Pay adoption has been somewhat slow in Australia thanks to disagreements between Apple and major banks over access to the NFC chip in iPhones, a large obstacle was surmounted on Thursday. After much negotiation, Commonwealth Bank of Australia – or CommBank – […]
After years of waiting, there are signs that Target may launch official support for Apple Pay at its stores in the near future. The technology is already working at the Metreon location in San Francisco, some posters on Twitter have claimed. Another noted that while they didn’t try Apple Pay, they were able to use […]