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Frightful Five: The Apple Update That Pays

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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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Apple Pay Faces Hemispheric Pressure

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Asda Is Thinking About Apple Pay… Maybe. Asda, is testing Apple Pay. has refused to support Apple Pay and instead rolled out its own app, Walmart Pay, for use with iOS and Android in December 2015. Asda is being noncommittal about future plans and is not saying whether there may be a wider rollout of Apple Pay to its 626 U.K.

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Mobile Cards Key To Winning Bank Accounts

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Banks and legacy financial institutions (FIs) might be wise to study what disruptive technologies recently did to the print publishing industry, taxi cabs, network TV, and a host of other businesses that were disintermediated with little to no warning in recent years. And in surveys at least, they don’t exhibit much loyalty to FIs.

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style

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AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology. And new technology is in the works to help welcome them to the AR world: In October, it was reported that a Facebook executive said the company is developing augmented reality glasses.

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Will Snapchat Get Snapped Up Or Snap Back?

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Turnarounds in tech — and in social media in particular — are not unheard of, Nathanson wrote, meaning it is not impossible for Snap to snap back from all this. But at this point, he is skeptical that Snap can manage a hat trick. Snap had been attempting to have the suit dismissed, to no avail.

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Omnichannel No Longer An Option For Retail

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Particularly among younger consumers, the millennial and Gen Z “digital natives,” who, by the numbers, show a much greater affection for the physical store than their boomer parents and Gen X older siblings do. So why aren’t digital natives shopping digitally?

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What The Trendsetters Say About How We Will Pay Next Decade

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Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. consumers shop and pay — today and in the future.