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Apple launched Apple Pay in Spain today, supporting cards from partner institutions Banco Santander, Carrefour, Ticket Restaurants and American Express. Apple Pay was first launched in the United States in October 2014, and in a little over two years the iPhone maker has steadily rolled out its mobile wallet out to 12 more countries. In…
Apple’s services segment has been growing at a decent pace in the last five years, and the iPhone maker’s services portfolio is now worth nearly $20 billion in annual sales. That’s a number that would have made any company happy. Take Microsoft, for example: every discussion about Microsoft would invariably lead to how the company…
Just two years after the service was launched in October, 2014, and less than a year after Apple, Inc. took it to the web, Apple Pay is now the fifth largest payments platform by transaction volume. According to a report in The Country Caller, the mobile-wallet-turned-full-scale-payments-platform quickly climbed past other providers like Google Wallet and…
With the new Touch ID integration on the MacBook Pro versions that were launched a few days ago, Apple, Inc. is showing us just how serious it is about Apple Pay. Surprisingly, not all Apple device users are comfortable with the digital wallet that is slowly changing the way online payments are being made, let…
In the first two parts of the Apple Pay series (Part 1 | Part 2), I detailed the reasons and factors that influenced Apple’s decision to get into the digital wallet market. In this article, we will look at the market’s landscape, as well as trends that are playing a major role in the industry’s…
In Part 1 of this article, we gave an introduction to how Apple Pay is part of an ‘ecosystem’ that Apple is building around its devices and its users. We saw how Microsoft was successfully doing this, and we reviewed some very important numbers for Apple Pay and its growth. In this segment, Part 2,…
Since launching the Apple Pay mobile wallet nearly 23 months ago, Apple has worked really hard to keep expanding the digital wallet’s reach around the world. The company has been strengthening its services portfolio as part of its effort to diversify its dependence on devices, and Apple Pay can easily become the lead architect of…
When Apple first launched Apple Pay in the United States in October 2014, CEO Tim Cook took a swipe at credit card companies for using a five-decades-old technology. But instead of alienating the largest payments processors in the world, Apple integrated support for all three major cards – Visa, MasterCard and American Express. The move…
Shortly after Apple announced at the WWDC that they would take Apple Pay to the web, tech major IBM and e-commerce portal Shopify have confirmed that they will be integrating the payment option into sites under their influence. IBM’s WebSphere and Commerce Cloud client base of over 12,000 will be offered the Apple Pay integration,…
At the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, Apple made a huge announcement that can shake things up for Paypal. The Cupertino-based tech behemoth announced that it will be taking Apple Pay to the web. For some unknown reason, Apple has so far shied away from moving things to the web, touting apps…
Apple Pay has the most number of users compared to rivals Android Pay and Samsung Pay, but it is obvious that the latter two are growing much faster than Apple’s version. Will Apple Pay’s user base lead vanish over time? More importantly, is that the right question to ask? Let’s explore this in a little…
The mobile wallet space is not one that you can call extremely crowded, but when you factor in the depth of the pockets of its biggest players – Apple, Samsung, Google and PayPal – you could justify calling it an overcrowded market. One of the major reasons these companies jumped in with both feet…
The death of a loved one always takes an emotional toll on you, but in the digital age, it is important to know that the data of your late loved one is not running loose on the Internet. At WWDC this year, Apple made some improvements to iCloud under digital legacy and account recovery under…
Sales of 5G iPhones are expected to boost growth for services such as Apple Music and the App Store, both of which are expected to grow at a healthy pace at Apple, Inc. (AAPL). However, the service business is now subject to litigation from the U.S. Department of Justice. Also, pending legislation in the United…
If you didn’t already know, you are absolutely spoilt for choice when it comes to choosing an online slot game to have a spin on. With the growth of online gambling has come an amazing new wave of games, particularly in the format of the once-humble fruit machine. That dusty old machine has evolved massively…
