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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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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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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| Ian Kar / Bank Innovation: |
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.Thanks:@iankar_
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
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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Tweets: @ryan_knutson and @dannysullivan
| Dan Gualtieri / Laptop Mag: |
iPhone 6 trade-in deals: carriers, third-party services compared — Best iPhone 6 Trade-In Deals: Carriers Compared — With the impending release of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus (starting at $199 and $299, respectively), it seems like new options for iPhone users with older models are popping up each day.
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| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Before its latest funding round, Square walked away from an acquisition offer from Apple a source says was less than $3B — Before $100 Million Raise, Square Was In Talks With Apple — According to a filing obtained by VCExperts, Square has raised another $100 million in capital.
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| 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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Forbes, VentureBreak, New York Times, VentureBeat, Gigaom and Business Insider
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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” … | Y Combinator: |
Y Combinator requests applications from startups in certain areas including energy, A.I., robotics, biotech, and healthcare — New Requests for Startups — INTRODUCTION There are a lot of startup ideas we've been waiting for people to apply with, sometimes for years.
| 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 … | Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
About 1000 New York Uber drivers plan to strike on Monday over fares and working conditions — Uber Drivers “Strike” — And Switch To Lyft — Over Fares And Conditions — Testing the labor market. “Uber is not doing anything — it's only an application on our phones.” — Facebook: uberdriversnetwork
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Tweets: @dtunkelang, @cgsaw, @dhh and @laurahazardowen
| 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook is trying to lure YouTube's biggest content creators, discussing advertising — Facebook Tries to Muscle In on YouTube — Social Network Makes a Pitch to Lure Content Creators, Discusses How Ads Might Be Used — In what may be another signal that Facebook Inc. wants to take on YouTube … Sponsor Posts
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