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Goldman’s Apple Card: What Will Q2 Hold?

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Apple Card — the iPhone-based credit product launched last summer by Goldman Sachs , Apple and Mastercard — is expected to be a hot topic on Goldman’s earnings call Wednesday (July 15). To use Apple Pay, customers tap the card icon in the Afterpay app, which then activates the Afterpay card in the Apple wallet.

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How The Gig Economy Is Igniting Spend Management Innovation

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PEX issues Visa -branded debit cards, paired with a spend management app, to small businesses (SMBs) that need a solution for the part of workforce spend that is anything but predictable — related to specific tasks and, by its very nature, usually ad hoc. However, Grant added, these days, that innovation needs a lot of scaling up.

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Apple Earnings Transcend Pandemic Economics

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For a company that doesn’t have a retail location open outside of China or South Korea because of the coronavirus pandemic, Apple acquitted itself nicely in the second quarter. In this difficult environment, our users are depending on Apple products in renewed ways to stay connected, informed, creative and productive. “In

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Google, Apple Team Up To Enable Coronavirus Tracking Tech

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Apple and Google are collaborating on a new technology to track the spread of the coronavirus by using Bluetooth. All of us at Apple and Google believe there has never been a more important moment to work together to solve one of the world’s most pressing problems,” the companies said in a statement.

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UK Gov’t Now Accepts Apple Pay For Some Services

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government has now started accepting Apple Pay for certain online payment services. 9to5Mac reported that the government’s website is now accepting Apple Pay for four of its online services, including the Global Entry Services, the disclosure and barring service checks, the Registered Traveler Service, and the Electronic Visa Waiver Service.

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Apple Names Isabel Ge Mahe Managing Director For Greater China

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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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Can Apple Watch Carry Apple Into The Healthcare Future?

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Healthcare is becoming more important to major players in digital commerce and payments, with companies such as Amazon , Apple and Google trying to build their own ecosystems to capture more of the spending in that massive and global industry. That’s not the only factor that could work in Apple’s favor when it comes to healthcare.

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