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Apple Employees Spotted Using Unreleased Tap-to-Pay (Between Phones) Feature
One perk of working in Apple’s giant spaceship campus, it seems, is the ability to try new features before we mere mortals get a peek. Tap to Pay, a feature Apple revealed in February that turns your iPhone into a digital payment terminal, is already being tested by company staffers ahead of its wide release.
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Apple Could Turn iPhones into Payment Terminals — RIP Square
Apple is reportedly set to launch a service that would let businesses use their iPhones as payment terminals with no additional hardware — a move that could put pressure on market leader Block (formerly Square).
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Samsung and Mastercard Are Teaming Up On a Biometric Credit Card
Samsung and Mastercard are officially teaming up on a credit card with a built-in fingerprint scanner, Samsung announced on Thursday. These so-called “biometric cards” will come baked in with a “several key discrete chips” from Samsung’s side, and are planned to be compatible with any point of sale (POS) terminal, or any terminal that currently…
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Report: EU Antitrust Officials Are Looking Into Apple Pay, iPhone NFC Chips
Officials across the European Union have already made their thoughts on Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project clear. Now those concerns have extended to Apple Pay, with EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s office probing whether the company’s pre-installed mobile payments software is playing dirty with the competition, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.