{"id":70529,"date":"2016-07-27T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=70529"},"modified":"2016-07-27T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T17:42:13","slug":"apple-pay-contactless-payments","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/apple-pay-contactless-payments","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pay Accounts for Three-Quarters of Contactless Payments in US, Tim Cook Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Apple reported stronger than expected quarterly earnings, impressing analysts and investors alike. Then CEO Tim Cook dropped a stat no one anticipated: Apple Pay now represents 75% of contactless payments made in the US, according to retailers.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/07\/26\/apple-quarterly-earnings<\/p>\n<p>Cook also noted that half of all money moved via Pay is from non-US markets, suggesting there is reasonable traction in other markets such as Canada, the UK, and Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Apple Pay was launched in 2014. The service turns iPhones into mobile wallets by storing payment card information securely and allowing consumers to tap point-of-sale registers equipped with near-field communication technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Apple reported stronger than expected quarterly earnings, impressing analysts and investors alike. Then CEO Tim Cook dropped a stat no one anticipated: Apple Pay now represents 75% of contactless payments made in the US, according to retailers. https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2016\/07\/26\/apple-quarterly-earnings Cook also noted that half of all money moved via Pay is from non-US markets, suggesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":68929,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-70529","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/70529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/70529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/68929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70529"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=70529"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=70529"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=70529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}