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Apple Pay Details: Apple Gets 0.15% Cut of Purchases, Higher Rates for Bluetooth Payments — Apple's ambitious new mobile payment initiative, Apple Pay, was announced on Tuesday during the company's iPhone event. Many questions still linger about the service, but information is beginning …
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Apple Poaching Talent from AmEx, PayPal, Google — for Loyalty Program — Apple has been filling out its payments team for the past few months, poaching a number of executives from PayPal, American Express, and others - but not just to prep for Apple Pay's launch this week.| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Apple Pay charged a lower transaction rate by banks than typical for credit card transactions, won't be accepted by Walmart and Best Buy — Banks Did It Apple's Way in Payments by Mobile — JPMorgan Chase's chief financial officer, Marianne Lake, took the stage at a financial conference …
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iPhone 6 Plus sells out within hours, Apple reports “record number” of pre-orders for new iPhones, AT&T says demand is higher than past two years — Larger iPhone 6 Plus Sells Out, “Record Number” of iPhone Pre-orders — Yep, lots of people tried to order new iPhones as pre-sales began just after midnight on Friday.
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Apple Users Download Free U2 Album Two Million Times — Some of you do not want the U2 album Apple is giving away. But lots of you were willing to download it. Or, at a minimum, your iPhones and MacBooks did. — iTunes users have downloaded more than 2 million copies of “Songs of Innocence” … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Accessory makers hit delays as iPhone 6 production eats up Lightning connector supplies — Record shipments of Apple's new iPhone 6 models unveiled this week might mean more headaches for companies building accessories with Apple's Lightning connectors. Several sources tell us in the lead … | Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Tim Cook on Charlie Rose: no plans for social networking; Apple's top competitor is Google — Tim Cook says Apple could have made a bigger iPhone ‘years ago’ — Apple CEO tells Charlie Rose the company's been patient — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company could have made a larger iPhone long ago … | Fortune: |
Square raises $100 million at $6 billion valuation — Payments company Square has raised $100 million in new funding at a valuation of nearly $6 billion, according to a Delaware filing obtained by VCExperts.com and shared with Fortune. — The San Francisco-based company issued 6.4 million …
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| Josh Ong / The Next Web: |
Kevin Rose's ephemeral photo and video sharing app Tiiny is now available for download on iOS — Kevin Rose launches Tiiny, a fun iPhone app for sharing temporary photos and videos — After teasing the app earlier this week, Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has released Tiiny …
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Microsoft announces new Xbox 360 console and game bundles for holiday season, including Blue and Kinect options — Big on blue? Microsoft expands palette with new Xbox 360 bundle — The $249 bundle includes two games, Call of Duty: Ghosts and Call of Duty: Black Ops II, and a free month of Xbox Live Gold.| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Motorola's unlocked, unbranded Moto X will be called the ‘Pure Edition’ — I can think of many, many times where I've called the flavor of Android that ships on Nexus phones “pure Android,” and it looks like Motorola is taking a cue: its direct-sale, unbranded, unlocked Moto X will be called the Moto X Pure Edition when it ships.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says new iOS 8 SMS Continuity feature won't arrive until October — Apple's website detailing Continuity features arriving with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite in the coming weeks has been updated to announce SMS support won't arrive until October. — The feature, which allows users to send … Sponsor Posts
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