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OCTOBER 30, 2020

We have deep dives on cloud technology, business-to-business (B2B) payments and Visa’s deal to acquire YellowPepper. I think in terms of market recognition, 2020 was the breakout year — [and] in terms of commercial adoption, 2021 will be more like it,” Harris said. Apple Services Revenue Jumps, Subscription Bundles Debut.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

4) that Russia is now the 10th country where Apple Pay is available, following launches in the U.S., In Russia, Apple Pay will initially operate with partners Sberbank and Mastercard. Apple’s decision to launch Apple Pay in Russia comes at a time when the country’s mobile payments market grew by almost 40 percent in 2015, to 70.4

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Menlo Park-based Enjoy Technology , the eCommerce startup led by Ron Johnson, former VP of retail operations for Apple, has raised an additional $150 million in Series C funding, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. Enjoy Technology operates in 54-plus U.S. markets and will be offered in 11 U.K. population.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Apple said it was sorry for allowing contractors to listen to what people said to Siri, CNBC reported on Wednesday (Aug. Human review for Siri recordings helps Apple improve the recognition and understanding algorithms that Siri uses to operate, the company has said. Apple said the grading process had reviewed less than 0.2

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a concept Rob Orgel, now the new president and chief operating officer at Flywire , told Karen Webster was foundational to his decade-long career at Apple — where he was part of the leadership team that developed, rolled out and grew the Apple Pay business. Flywire announced his appointment Tuesday (Nov.

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MAY 24, 2018

Apple led the charge in the wearable band market during the first quarter of this year, with Canalys finding that the company shipped 3.8 million Apple Watches during the first three months of the year. Behind Apple, Xiaomi , which makes the Mi Bands, was in second place, shipping 3.7

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MAY 2, 2017

Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. Everyone likes to talk about the T in operations and technology,” McLaughlin said. That’s how it lives every day, everywhere — the consumer experience is the operation.”. And likewise, knowing when to hold back.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Those conversations have largely ignored the Biggest Tech company of all, Apple, and Apple Pay. consumers showed that of the 7.75

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Apple is facing Russian scrutiny following a cybersecurity complaint that it is taking advantage of its controlling market position, Russia’s anti-monopoly watchdog told Reuters on Thursday (Aug. Apple said the removed apps used a “highly invasive” technology – Mobile Device Management (MDM) – that violated the App Store policies.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Apple will adhere to Russia’s demands that the technology conglomerate change the way the Crimean peninsula is displayed on Apple’s Weather and Maps apps, according to BBC reports. Reports added that the State Duma had described Apple’s previous labeling of Crimea as an “inaccuracy.”.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

Google’s parent company Alphabet has surpassed Apple as the company with the biggest cash reserves in the world, according to a report by the Financial Times. The move comes as Apple has made a conscious decision to let go of some of its cash reserves, and about six years after activist investor Carl Icahn pressured the company to do so.

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JUNE 5, 2018

Through a new Face ID setting, Apple ’s latest iOS 12 potentially allows more than one person to use the feature on a particular iPhone X. The news comes as Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC , helped boost the company’s shares to an all-time high on Monday (June 4). As a result, Apple’s stock rose as much as 1.7

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Yesterday Apple announced entering the payments space with Apple Pay, a new way to pay in physical stores and mobile apps. At Celent we also published a report in March this year called Apple in Payments: What to Expect? In fact, those devices are only limited today to the newly announced iPhone 6 models and the Apple Watch.

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

Telecom executives whose companies are spending billions of dollars implementing 5G technologies hope Apple’s new 5G-capable iPhone will amplify what so far has been muted consumer interest in the faster networks, the Financial Times reports. 3 that Apple ordered 75 million 5G iPhones prior to unveiling its new lineup on Oct.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Can Oprah Winfrey help lead Apple to new frontiers of digital commerce? Or is the media mogul and longstanding promoter of reading merely another aid in Apple’s apparent ongoing quest to be more like Amazon? It also follows, by about a year or so, Apple’s rebranding of its iBook feature to Apple Books.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Can Oprah Winfrey help lead Apple to new frontiers of digital commerce? Or is the media mogul and longstanding promoter of reading merely another aid in Apple’s apparent ongoing quest to be more like Amazon? It also follows, by about a year or so, Apple’s rebranding of its iBook feature to Apple Books.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The long-awaited, Siri-powered Apple HomePod smart speaker is finally available for purchase, but users’ reviews are coming back mixed, according to news from CNBC. It already plays Apple Music via the Sonos app. The publication went on to say that anyone who desires additional features should look elsewhere.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Monese added support for Apple Pay for personal cards in the U.K. as well as France, Wirecard joined forces with Cimple Marketing for an Alipay implementation at Stockmann -operated department stores in The Baltics as well as Finland and Upco International Inc. Coverage includes U.A.E.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Coverage includes the introduction of automated teller machines (ATMs) with facial recognition technology from Spain ’s CaixaBank. s Tesco Bank unveiled Apple Siri functionality for its mobile app, state-owned firms in Indonesia are combining their mobile payments efforts through LinkAja, and the U.K. ’s And the U.K.’s

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JULY 19, 2017

Apple recently announced it named a new managing director for Greater China. Isabel Ge Mahe, who previously worked for more than nine years in wireless technology at Apple, will step into the newly created role. Apple confirmed it will not include backdoors that allow third party access to said data.

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JUNE 27, 2016

It’s been nearly two years – 20 months to be precise — since it was launched after significant investments in engineering, marketing and promotion. This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay.

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APRIL 21, 2017

Apple looks to have joined the race to develop self-driving technology. Though, as is typical with Apple projects, details are vague at best. At the time, “future stuff” was widely thought to be a reference to augmented reality technology. With self-driving technology to boot? Everyone’s talking about it.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

To that end, Apple is facing more scrutiny centered on its payments ecosystem, and the tech underpinning that ecosystem. 4), Dutch antitrust regulators have been looking at the company – specifically into Apple’s Pay’s near-field communications (NFC) operability. The EU, over the summer, opened an antitrust probe into Apple Pay.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A new survey has found that big retailers like Apple and Nike are losing favor in China, as consumers are showing a preference towards local brands. Online payment operator Alipay, owned by an affiliate of Alibaba, topped the list, while food delivery service Meituan Dianping broke into the top 10 for the first time.

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MARCH 21, 2018

Amazon has overtaken Alphabet — Google ’s owner — as the company with the second-highest market value in America, as Google’s stock fell for the third consecutive day on Tuesday (March 20). As of now, Apple is the only company worth more than Amazon at nearly $900 billion.

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MARCH 9, 2018

Apple needs to watch its back: Amazon might just beat the world’s most valuable publicly listed company to the $1 trillion mark. While Reuters reports that Apple’s market capitalization has reached $893 billion – $141 billion more than the $752 billion market value of Amazon – the eCommerce giant has been quickly gaining steam.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Instead of focusing on the fees Apple charges to access its payments platform, the four biggest banks down under are instead asking the nation’s financial regulator to allow them to collectively bargain with Apple with an eye toward gaining access to the company’s contactless payment function.

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DECEMBER 7, 2017

Amazon takes another swing at Etsy, Apple catches up in the proprietary Pay game and Facebook matriculates a new generation of social media users with its new Messenger product for kids — this and more of the latest news from the Frightful Five, just in case you missed it. It’s finally here: with the iOS 11.2

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MARCH 25, 2019

The Apple event, heavy on subscription commerce offerings, took place at time when the company is trying to find more revenue from services given recent stumbles with iPhone sales — a move that seems to be pleasing at least some investors lately. Magazine Subscriptions. One selling point of this service?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Apple is facing a new competitor in the mobile wallet market, thanks to a joint venture between two Swiss companies, reports said on Monday (Sept. and Paymit has the companies working on their own mobile wallet technology slated for launch early next year. The merger between payments tech firms TWINT Ltd.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Just in time for the holiday shopping spree — including Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday — online selling platform Etsy has announced it now accepts Apple Pay. 21) that its online site now allows buyers to pay via Apple Pay; previously, the company only supported Apple Pay when purchases were made on the Etsy iOS app.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

continues to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations – same-day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said – as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Additionally, the smartphone market is getting saturated.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

A certain amount of intellectual satisfaction — irony, perhaps — came from the conference call Wednesday (July 31) for Apple ’s latest earnings report. In it, CEO Tim Cook credited much of Apple Pay’s recent growth to its increasing use in mass transit. Visit a major U.S. OK, that might be an exaggeration. Contactless Visions.

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MAY 25, 2017

USA Technologies (USAT), a payment technology provider of cashless and mobile transactions in self-serve retail , announced Wednesday (May 24) a strategic agreement with Five Star Food Service, a full-service vending, micromarkets, office refreshment services and corporate dining company, to expand their partnership.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

As predicted, Amazon has a new Echo coming out in time for the holidays – and here’s how it plans to compete with Apple’s HomePod. This may have been in response to Apple’s challenge with the HomePod, billed as the highest-quality audio experience on the market – but which critics said fell short in many other areas.

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APRIL 1, 2019

And while payments and commerce does have fewer chirping birds, it seems spring has sprung here as well – last week, we saw the start of all kinds of big blooms getting their start, especially at Apple, Citi and Square. The Apple Card Arrives. Apple watchers and investors have been mixed on the latest slew of announcements.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Consumers reportedly have downloaded one million mini programs since their launch in early 2017 — that’s just less than half the size of the Apple App Store. According to one recent estimate , consumers globally in the third quarter of 2018 downloaded 29 million apps from Apple and Google app stores, up 10 percent year over year.

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