Some additional protections just fell into place prevented US Customs and Border Protection from searching smartphones without a warranty. While the ruling didn’t actually help the defendant who brought the case, and only applies to the Eastern District of New York where the case was brought, it may help set a privacy precedent. The case […]
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Tap to Pay on iPhone launches in Italy
Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhone technology launched in Italy on Thursday, allowing sellers to use the iPhone as a contactless payment terminal. As with other international launches, the feature allows retailers to use the NFC chip inside more recent iPhones to accept debit and credit card payments alongside Apple Pay and other digital payment […]
Following up on Apple’s disclosure of employee salaries, Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, was recently required to disclose employee salary offers in order to stay in compliance with the U.S. Office of Foreign Labor Certification where work-visa applications are concerned. The results were fairly surprising, and even after recent layoffs, the highest base […]
If you were curious about what Apple paid its employees, this might come in handy. Gabrielle Bienasz of Entrepreneur was able to find the salary ranges for what Apple pays its engineers, software developers, and analysts. The numbers hail from a Business Insider study of data analyzed from assorted H-1B applications to estimate what the […]
Apple Cash, Apple’s peer-to-peer payments system that works in conjunction with Apple Pay and iMessage, received some small updates on Thursday. Among these updates is a new Instant transfer feature that works with both Mastercard and Visa debit cards. Previously only the latter card could be used, so the addition of Mastercard means Instant Transfer […]