If nothing else, Apple Pay is gaining traction. Just over a month after launching Apple Pay on the web to bring the payments service to website checkouts via its Safari web browser, new data shows Apple has already made it into the top five payment technologies online. Analystics firm SimilarTech’s platform tracks over 30 billion […]
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Apple may be playing its gatekeeper card a little too closely where Spotify is concerned. The audio streaming provider said Apple is making it harder for the streaming music company to compete by blocking a new version of its iPhone app. In a letter sent this week to Apple’s top lawyer, Spotify says Apple is […]
It’s not the most complicated fix in the world, but apparently Mark Zuckerberg stands by it. The Facebook CEO, who has apparently had more than $16 million on security spent on him for protection from “specific threats” and has hired 16 bodyguards to protect him at home, shared an image on Facebook celebrating Instagram’s 500 […]
With rumors that Apple is working on a device to compete with Amazon’s Echo, it’s been suggested that a fifth-generation version of the Apple TV will eventually get its own microphone and speaker, and that Apple will be improving its computing infrastructure to handle more Siri queries. Supporting these developments will be the previously-rumored Siri […]
When in doubt, you can compete with Amazon by building your own device. And you can make Siri that much better by throwing the developer community at it. An anonymous source has stated that Apple is looking to build a device to compete with Amazon’s Echo as well as open up Siri to outside developers. […]