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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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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 since March. [1].

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Apple – Phone Home

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It may not be that easy for Apple , a tech giant that seems to have missed one of the most important anchors of connected commerce – the home – along with trendlines that suggest the smartphone is slowly becoming less central to the consumer and the commerce experience. Apple is investing heavily to make sure they stay on that list.

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Digital Payments, Online Ordering And Memberships Top This Week’s News

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We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Weak iPhone Sales Cost Apple Nearly Half a Trillion Dollars in Market Cap . NEW DATA: Five Payments Innovations for Winning the Digital-First Shopper. From Online Ordering to Cupcake ATMs: How Sprinkles Prepared for the Pandemic.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: UK Regulators To Form Digital Markets Unit; Italy Fines Apple $10 Million Over Claims About iPhone Water Resistance

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“Millions of people share creative content or advertise their small business’ goods online,” the British government said in a press release. Apple Faces $12M Fine Over iPhone Marketing. Apple, Amazon Have Not Joined French ‘Tech For Good Call’ Program. However, Amazon and Apple were reportedly not included.

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Big Tech Faces Regulation Reckoning As 2021 Dawns

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If 2020 was the year of streaming media, of content done a million different ways, of apps and Apple, and Google’s and Amazon’s algorithms … it was also the year of Big Tech regulation, where 2020 set the stage for a 2021 that could be seismic in changing the way companies — from Facebook to Apple to debt collectors — interact with consumers.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

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How QSRs Are Driving Retail Innovation Via Emerging Tech

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Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. According to a new study from the National Restaurant Association and Technomic, 22 percent of consumers used kiosk ordering last year. Loyalty, too, is a source of innovation.