Square Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar wants to prove that cryptocurrency, especially Bitcoin, can be a genuine financial tool with the latest version of its Cash App for iOS now supporting the protocol. “We’re a payment innovator. And therefore I think it behooves us to always know, where are our payments going?” Friar told “Mad […]
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JCPenney now accepts Apple Pay. The department store announced that it now accepts Apple Pay across all of its U.S. locations, including support for store-branded credit cards and associated rewards points. Compatibility with Apple Pay within the JCPenney app for iOS has been listed as “coming soon”, though in-store transactions are now possible with any […]
PayPal has apparently fallen as the leader among U.S. merchants and Apple Pay has taken its place. Per NFC World, Apple today sits at 36 percent versus 16 percent a year ago. PayPal, by contrast, is being offered by 34 percent of merchants. Both Apple and PayPal are trailed by MasterCard PayPass (25 percent), Android […]
It looks like Apple Pay may be coming to CVS in the near future. While the pharmacy chain has yet to announce an actual launch date, it has stated that it is currently “evaluating” mobile payment options. Accounts of miscellaneous CVS locations accepting Apple Pay transactions have occurred for about a month on Twitter, and […]
This could come in handy. Mobile payments company Square today announced the launch of its new NFC reader within 100 small businesses around the country, letting stores who previously were unable to accept Apple Pay due to the lack of a required contactless reader, to begin supporting the service. The reader will act like all […]