Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta mobile payment. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta mobile payment. Mostrar todas las entradas

miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2014

Very passionate, approachable, very Apple

Add to Flipboard Magazine.


"Very passionate, approachable, very Apple". This is what employees have reviewed some Apple Store who have already received a visit from his new boss, Angela Ahrendts. The executive took over Apple Retail and online company store a few days ago, but has not done so noteworthy that nothing can be seen from outside.

lunes, 12 de mayo de 2014

The Apple Stores removed the iPod touch like mobile payment devices

Add to Flipboard Magazine.
If you have gone to an Apple Store, you will know that many of their employees are not separated from their mobile payment devices. So far these have included an iPod touch and a case with credit card reader, but it seems that Apple is replacing these models iPod touch for iPhone 5S. 

So say at 9to5Mac, which also say that iPhone 5S will be equipped with a cover that will have more features: improvements in code reading Passbook, slot for smart cards to pay via our PIN by entering it on the same screen of the iPhone...and the natural advantage that employees will hand a phone to make emergency calls. Although there is also room for suspicions future.

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end of the iPod?

And the simple change from an iPod to an iPhone and it makes me suspect that the iPod touch will stop be so present in stores, or perhaps Apple is preparing to use the TouchID sensor these iPhone in the future payment system or simply to help identify employees who use these terminals to charge customers. 


For me, the arrival of the Apple wearables, could signal the beginning of the end of the iPod. We will wait to see what Apple has plans for them.

viernes, 9 de mayo de 2014

The next iPad could have Touch ID

Add to Flipboard Magazine.
When it introduced the iPhone 5S with Touch ID all thought the other Apple devices include the new identification system. Time passed and although out the iPad Air and iPad Mini (second generation), they never had the system installed. But recent rumors suggest that the new iPad will have built-Touch ID. 

Apart from that found in iOS 7.1 source code, the rumor comes this time from the hardware part, specifically the company Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company which apparently would have provided Apple in mid-April the first batch of sensors touch, which would be designed for all future iOS devices, both a possible iPhone 6 as a Air iPad 2 and an iPad Mini 3.

That the next devices Touch ID is a logical move by Apple. And if it had not before is because it is quite likely that iPad and iPad Mini Air had the very advanced at the time of the presentation of the iPhone 5S.

martes, 22 de abril de 2014

Square denies that it is negotiating its sale to Google, Apple or PayPal

Add to Flipboard Magazine.
Rumors about a possible purchase of the mobile service company charges Square by companies like Apple, Google or PayPal has intensified in recent weeks. In fact, according to The Wall Street Journal, Google Square is negotiating with a potential sale but the communications director of the company, Aaron Zamost, has denied this information through Twitter.

According to the sources consulted by the WSJ, Square has lost $ 100 million in the past year and the past three have spent half the $ 340 million earned to date. The paper also refers to a bank loan of 100 million dollars order a few weeks ago, while in 2013 a gross turnover of $ 550 million.

Square, valued at more than 5,200 million, currently only operates in the USA, Canada and Japan and its economic problems and expansion is one of the main problems has qye company.

Users see a Square, SumUp, PayPal or iZettle a novel and easy time to pay any alternative product. They just need a card reader credit and debit. According to rumors, the mobile sector is being targeted collection of looks from big companies like Apple, that no payment system outside their shops, although rumors point to a breakthrough.

Square charges a fee of 2.75% per transaction, but 80% of the money is just going to believe that companies like Visa or Mastercard. 


In 2015 Square will have to adapt to new changes, because it will thereafter when USA is no longer possible to simply swipe a card through a reader and pay. We will have to use a PIN code.

This is as serious: Apple looking to hire responsible for future payments platform

Add to Flipboard Magazine.

With both the iWatch rumor and future iPhone, news of a payment platform from Apple had gone into the background. But now from Re/Code, we heard of an active search for product managers and business for a division of mobile payments. What would be coordinating Jennifer Bailey, who takes time directing the e-commerce section of Apple.

According to reports, Apple's ambition in this regard is "very, very serious" and further on the agenda that the talks they had with PayPal. The possibility of buying that rondo Square earlier this month is also a sign that Cupertino have decided to go further with this.

The nearly 600 million iTunes accounts linked to credit cards with funds (and used to make simple purchases of applications and songs) that Apple would have an excellent base to start own shopping system, which linked to TouchID and future devices wearables could make our way to buy change forever. We look forward to the signings that may occur during the year.