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According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, via AppleInsider, Apple and Goldman Sachs are currently in talks about launching an Apple-Pay-branded credit card. The Wall Street Journal’s sources have told the WSJ that the new card should launch in early 2019 and will replace Apple’s...

9to5 Mac reports that according to a new survey of 1,000 young adult Americans (in the 18-35 demographic) by Dealspotr, more than 10% of those polled had used Apple Pay to buy items in a retail store, and 15% of them had used Apple Pay to buying goods online. This beats the likes of Google Pay...

According to the newly released annual Apple Pay report from Gene Munster’s Loup Ventures, Apple Pay is growing year on year, an “impressive” performance, according to Munster. Loup Ventures estimates that there were 127 million global Apple Pay users by the end of 2017, a big increase from the...

Target has today announced a new Wallet feature for its iOS app, which explains why it is still resisting taking Apple Pay payments in store, although you can pay with Apple Pay in the online Target store. The new Wallet feature enables Target customers (or “guests,” as Target calls them) to...

AppleInsider reports that the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has today approved a new $573 million contract to add support for contactless payment methods, including Apple Pay on iPhone and Apple Watch, to the subway turnstiles. The intention is to eventually replace...

Wells Fargo has announced today that NFC support has been added to more than 5,000 of its ATMs in the US, writes MacRumors. This means that you can now use Apple Pay on your iPhone to complete transactions at the terminals. Other digital wallets now supported by the Wells Fargo ATMs include...

MacRumors reports today that more major U.S. restaurant chains such as Quiznos, Smashburger, and MOD Pizza will soon be launching Apple-Pay-connected loyalty cards. The inclusion of Quiznos and many other restaurants, such as Pielogy, El Pollo Loco, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Moe’s Southwest...

Apple has announced that next weekend it will be holding a special Apple Pay shopping event in San Francisco in order to promote the use of the service in stores and restaurants in the area, writes AppleInsider. As part of the event, merchants will be offering exclusive discounts for customers...

9to5 Mac reports that luxury car manufacturer Jaguar has today announced a new feature that lets Jaguar and Land Rover owners pay for their petrol via PayPal or Apple Pay using the Shell app on the car’s touchscreen without getting out of their vehicle. In order to be able to use this feature...

AppleInsider reports that according to new data from consumer spending analytics company TXN, Apple Pay transactions grew by 50% in December 2016 compared with the same month a year ago. TXN’s graph shows a steady rise during the year, aside from a small dip in the middle of the year. TXN’s...

9 out 10 times apple pay stays at "Hold Near Reader to Pay" after scanning fingerprint. Appears to me that there isn't any communication with the merchant's terminal. After doing a remote diagnostic and not finding any issues, apple chat wants me to update to latest iOS so as to rule out a...

It may have only been available since September, but according to analytics firm SimilarTech, via MacRumors, online Apple Pay already has the fifth largest share of the online payment market as far as the top 10,000 websites are concerned. SimilarTech’s figures show that Apple Pay has 0.25% of...

AppleInsider reports that sources in Japan are saying that Apple Pay could be coming to that country on October 25, as part of the release of iOS 10. Adding fuel to the fire is the fact that maintenance downtimes for Japanese mobile carrier Docomo’s iD payment system and JR East’s Suica transit...

9to5 Mac reports that Apple Pay has launched in Russia today, making it the 10th country to have Apple Pay access, along with Australia, Canada, China, France, Hong Kong, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. Apple’s Russian website announced the launch of Apple Pay in the country, which...

Apple Pay has today arrived in Switzerland, which is now the second European country where Apple has rolled out its NFC mobile payments service after the UK, writes 9to5 Mac. Currently three banks in Switzerland have announced their support for Apple Pay, namely Bonus Card, CornerCard, and...

Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, took to the stage at Apple’s WWDC to announce that OS X is now macOS, and that the next update will be macOS Sierra. Federighi went through eight new features that will be included in Sierra. First feature up is Auto...

Apple Pay continues to expand, with MacRumors reporting today that Apple Pay is set to arrive in Switzerland on June 13, making a total of seven countries where Apple Pay is now accepted worldwide. Switzerland will be only the second country in Europe to offer Apple Pay, with the UK being the...

Tech Crunch writes that massively successful food ordering apps Grubhub and Seamless have just added support for Apple Pay. This is actually quite a coup for Apple Pay, as the Grubhub company raked in $2.4 billion in food sales in 2015, with 60 percent of that made up of mobile ordering. The...

Following on from a limited trial start last month where only Amex was supported, Singapore has today become the sixth country worldwide to have Apple Pay, with the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and China being the other five countries. The service is initially supported by Visa, MasterCard, and...

There are still quite a few banks in countries around the world that have yet to offer support for Apple Pay to their customers, but in the UK, at least, there is now a solution for those iPhone and iPad owners whose bank does not yet support Apple Pay with the arrival on iOS of Wirecard’s Boon...