USA Technologies announced on Tuesday that it will be bringing Apple Pay support to 200,000 acceptance points, which includes owners and operators of coffee brewers, vending machines, kiosks, laundry equipment, parking pay stations and other self-serve appliances.
During the company's quarterly earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the company has sold its one billionth iOS device since the original iPhone was released roughly seven years ago - a huge accomplishment.
Apple CEO Tim Cook just shed more light on the Apple Watch's launch this spring, announcing on the company's quarterly earnings call the Apple Watch will be shipping to customers in April.
Canalys is out with a note on Tuesday saying that Apple has garnered first place in the Chinese smartphone market for the first time by units shipped.
The research firm says the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were behind the large amount of growth in China in the fourth quarter of 2014, pushing the Cupertino-based company to the top spot.
In an effort to continue boosting its subscriber numbers, T-Mobile will be airing an advertisement in the Super Bowl this Sunday, with none-other than Kim Kardashian. And in typical T-Mobile fashion, it's a hilarious ad spot that should garner some attention. #KimsDataStash
Twitter has rolled out a big update to its iOS app, adding group direct messaging and the ability to shoot video directly within the app.
The new direct messaging tool changes up the feature that's been around since 2008. It's a move to make messaging a larger part of the platform. The group function lets you start conversations with any of your followers, and they don’t all need to follow one another in order to chat. You can create a group by simply tapping a few names.
Tapbots, the maker of popular third-party Twitter application Tweebot, has brought back the application to the Mac App Store after pulling it over the weekend.
"We've worked with Twitter to resolve Tweetbot for Mac authentication issues," Tapbots said in a tweet on Monday. "The app should be back on the Mac App Store soon."
The Wall Street Journal reports Google's upcoming and rumored wireless service won't rely on one single carrier, and instead will switch between networks to give customers the best wireless signal.
The service will feature new technology that would hunt through cellular connections provided by Sprint and T-Mobile and Wi-Fi hotspots, picking whichever offers the best signal to route calls, texts and data, the newspaper's sources said.
Apple is set to report its earnings for the Christmas quarter on Tuesday after the market closes. Before the numbers hit in roughly 24 hours, Bloomberg has averaged numbers from Wall Street analysts to see how the company may fare. And as Business Insider puts it, this earnings report is going to be the big one.
MasterCard announced on Monday that it's bringing Apple Pay to the PGA Tour, starting with the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Phoenix, Arizona later this week.
AT&T is getting another Nextel brand under its name.
AT&T announced on Monday it's acquiring Nextel Mexico for $1.88 billion, marking the second carrier in the region it's purchased this month.
AT&T is acquiring Nextel Mexico's spectrum licenses, network assets, retail stores and approximately 3 million subscribers. The network covers 76 million people, giving AT&T lots of room to grow in Mexico.
Stanford has made its 'Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift' course available on iTunes U on Monday, helping beginners gain an understanding of Apple's new programming language.
The course is available to download for free, and Stanford says you should have C language and object-oriented programming experience already to make the most of the course.