This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple Pay lets you send money to friends and family 1:23 Soon you’ll be able to pay your friend for that ski trip using Apple Pay. Apple on Monday showed off a new person-to-person …
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Android Pay is now available in Taiwan, Google announced Thursday. The contactless payment system was introduced in September 2015 in the US and since then has expanded to a handful of other countries. Android Pay lets you make purchases by tapping your phone on a credit card terminal. It came out a year after Apple Pay, which lets you do the …
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Apple and Samsung have been fattening their pockets with digital wallets for years, and now LG wants in. The company rolled out LG Pay in South Korea on Friday, it said in a statement. South Korean users of the LG G6 will be the first to be able to use the service. LG Pay allows users to register up to …
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Canadians no longer need their wallets in certain local shops, they just need their Android phone. Google said Wednesday it’s launching Android Pay in Canada. The pay-with-your-phone feature is supported by several major banks, such as Bank of Montreal and Scotiabank, and can be used in a handful of chain retailers like McDonald’s, Petro-Canada and Tim Hortons. Canadians will also …
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Apple wants a piece of Venmo’s market. The iPhone maker held talks recently with payments companies in hopes of introducing its own money-transfer service akin to PayPal’s Venmo, according to a report Thursday from Recode. The new peer-to-peer payment service, which could be coming later this year, would reportedly allow iPhone owners to send cash digitally to other iPhone owners. …
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Google and PayPal have teamed up to make mobile purchasing easier — well, at least that’s what they’re hoping. The two companies on Tuesday said they’re growing their existing partnership and will soon allow US customers to use PayPal as a payment option within Android Pay, Google’s mobile wallet. That way, someone with a PayPal account can connect it to …
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UK-based analyst Juniper Research released a new study Tuesday that showed the number of “contactless” Apple Pay users nearly doubling year over year, with the total number of Apple Pay users reaching 86 million by the end of 2017. Android Pay (Google) and Samsung Pay are also seeing big increases in usage. Still, Juniper expects Apple to dominate the contactless …
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Apple today updated its list of official Apple Pay partners, with 22 new US banks added to the hundreds that already support the payment system, according to 9to5Mac. The site lists the following banks and credit unions as new additions to Apple Pay: Bank of Grove Boulder Dam Credit Union Boundary Waters Bank Community 1st Credit Union Decorah Bank & …
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In a major decision that could change the way you use your iPhone at the checkout, the Australian Competition and Consumer Comission has ruled that Australia’s big banks can’t work together to “collectively boycott” Apple Pay. Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, NAB, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank had been petitioning to collectively bargain with Apple in order to get access to Near-Field Communication …
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The Apple Watch is a device that can do more than tell the time or put iPhone notifications on your wrist. It can be used to pay for items in the real world, save you in an emergency, act as a fashion accessory and help you track down a misplaced iPhone — to name a few. Here are 11 tips …
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