Apple Pay launches in Israel more than six years after its US debut
Apple Pay has officially launched in Israel, a nine million people market, more than six years after the mobile payment feature made its US debut back in October 2014.
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Vivid Money launches Apple Pay support in France
Apple Pay is now officially working for Vivid’s Visa cardholders in France as of this morning.
You can now use Paris Metro Smart Navigo cards on your iPhone
The somewhat limited implementation doesn’t support Apple’s Express Transit feature for passing through gates with Apple Pay directly.
NYC subway rolls out Apple Pay support across all stations and routes
The new terminals supporting Apple Pay and other contactless methods are now operational at all New York stations and on all buses in all boroughs.
Apple Pay predicted to become Apple’s next regulatory battleground
Apple’s frictionless, contactless mobile payments system looks like it’s going to become a battleground for regulators in the not-so-distant future.
Apple Pay launching in Israel by year-end as Bank of Ireland confirms it’s now accepting it
Isracard has confirmed that Apple’s mobile payments services is coming to Israel, a nearly ten million people country, by the end of the year.
The coronavirus pandemic gave Apple Pay a big boost, contactless payments here to stay
“As you can imagine in this environment people are less willing to hand over a card,” Cook said on yesterday’s earnings call.
iOS 14.2 brings a new yearly spending history option for the Apple Card
Eagle-eyed watchers have spotted that there are now three tabs at the top for Week, Month and Year overviews for the Apple Card in the second beta of iOS 14.2
Apple Pay’s Express Transit feature launches for the Washington Metro
Several D.C. Metro riders are reporting being able to use Express Transit mode with Apple Pay on their phone to quickly pay for rides without having to wake or unlock their device, or open an app.
German bank Sparkasse brings Apple Pay support to its popular Giro debit card
German customers can finally use Apple Pay without having to load a balance from their bank account onto their Sparkassen-Karte Basis debit card.
LA Metro announces TAP transit cards will gain Apple Pay support later this year
Your TAP card is coming to iPhone and Apple Watch this year, the Los Angeles Metro announced yesterday.
Get 50% off Snapfish photo books, cards and more when you use Apple Pay
For a limited time, you can get a full fifty percent off Snapfish photo products when checking out with Apple Pay in the app.
