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Capital One founder hails Apple Pay “breakthrough”
Apple Pay is a “very important breakthrough”, Capital One founder and CEO Richard Fairbank has told analysts during the card issuer’s third quarter earnings call... More
Obama signs chip and pin law
US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order “directing the government to lead by example in securing transactions and sensitive data” by adding chip and PIN security to payment cards... More
Android 5.0 SDK now available
The Android 5.0 SDK is now available to developers ahead of the scheduled launch of Android 5.0 ‘Lollipop’ in November... More
Welsh museum tests iBeacons
The National Roman Legion Museum in Caerleon, Wales, is using Bluetooth beacons to let visitors discover more about the collections on show on their mobile devices... More
Amex warns of slow mobile wallet adoption
American Express has warned that mobile wallets are likely to see slow adoption, even for Apple and its customer base... More
Alipay expands to USA
Chinese online payments giant Alipay is offering US merchants the ability to accept payments from Chinese shoppers via a new service called ePass... More
Line to offer messaging payments
Instant messaging service Line has announced plans to offer mobile payments to users in Japan from later this year... More
Ireland’s Leap Card to get NFC top-ups
Ireland’s National Transport Authority has awarded a contract to transit specialist Vix to enable Leap prepaid card users to top up their balance via NFC... More
Apple Pay to go live on 18 October?
“An internal memo addressed to Walgreens employees designed to prepare them for the upcoming launch of Apple Pay suggests that Apple’s new payments service might be going live on Saturday, October 18,” MacRumours reports... More
Swedish taxi firm runs NFC promo
Swedish taxi firm Taxi020 is promoting downloads of its booking app via NFC posters placed in 70 restaurants, bars and cafes in the cities of Stockholm and Gothenburg... More
Dash expands to Chicago
Mobile payment provider Dash is expanding to Chicago, adding 20 restaurants and bars in the city to its existing base of 50 locations in New York... More
Boku buys carrier billing rival Mopay
Boku, the carrier billing specialist which is working with UK networks to let customers charge the cost of physical goods to their mobile phone bill, has acquired Germany-based rival Mopay... More
Pizza Hut raises Apple Pay concerns
“I am more pessimistic about Apple Pay’s impact than most people here,” Danny Sullivan, VP of global digital experience at Pizza Hut has told attendees at the Mobile Shopping Summit 2014, Mobile Commerce Daily reports... More
Apple Pay setup screen spotted
Screenshots of the Apple Pay setup screen within the new Passbook app in the second iOS 8.1 beta have been published on MacRumours... More
Messenger to add payments
The ability to make payments from within Facebook Messenger is on its way, according to screenshots and video footage spotted by Techcrunch... More
Samsung Pay lands in China
Samsung’s version of Apple Pay is now live in China, Korea’s Yonhap news agency reports... More
RapidNFC examines iPhone 6 tag reading issue
PARTNER VIEWS: The question of whether or not Apple has included NFC tag reading and writing capabilities in the iPhone 6 is examined in a new blog post by NFC tag specialist RapidNFC... More
Apple falls out with PayPal over Samsung deal
PayPal was excluded from the list of Apple Pay preferred partners due to a falling out between the two companies, Bank Innovation reports... More
iPad to get Apple Pay support?
A text string in the beta release of iOS 8.1 spotted by a MacRumours reader appears to confirm reports that Apple will add a Touch ID fingerprint sensor to its next iPad, which may ship as soon as next month, and make it possible for owners to use Apple Pay to make online purchases... More