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Mobile wallet market worth $100 billion set to hit $250 billion by 2024
Mobile Wallet Market size was estimated to be over $100 billion in 2017 and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of more than 10% over the forecast timespan of... more
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Australia’s proposed anti-encryption law compels software “back doors”
Apple, in a rare public protest, has exposed the Australian government’s proposed anti-encryption bill, calling it “dangerously ambiguous” and “alarming to every Australian”. The Access and Assistance Bill would see... more
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Have Apple, Amazon and other US heavyweights been hacked?
It has recently been reported that a number of US technology heavyweights including Amazon and Apple have been hacked. According to Bloomberg, in 2015, Amazon.com began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies,... more
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Apple and Visa hit with Apple Pay patent infringement lawsuit
Apple and Visa have been hit with an Apple Pay patent infringement lawsuit by Universal Secure Registry (USR), a small US company, that alleges their mobile-payment partnership infringes four of its patents. In a federal lawsuit filed in Wilmington, Delaware, USR said it sent Apple a series of letters in 2010 describing its patented technology and seeking a partnership [...]
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Apple launches Carrier Billing in emerging markets
Last month Apple turned on carrier billing in iTunes in Germany, allowing consumers to charge things like app payments and music purchases to their mobile account instead of credit or debit cards. Now it was flagged to us that Beeline, a mobile carrier in Russia, quietly turned on the ability to make payments in iTunes through their [...]
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