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The countries which have announced increases to date are Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt ...

Nearly one in four transactions at Starbucks outlets in the US are now being made using the company’s mobile app, the coffee chain reports. The company’s 2020 fiscal results show that the percentage ...

NFC DIGITAL KEY: Drivers will be able to use Apple CarKey to access BMW’s iX series electric cars Apple iPhone users who purchase a BMW iX electric car will be able to lock, unlock and start the ...

EXPRESS TRANSIT: Chinese travellers can now use their iPhone or Apple Watch to tap in and out of bus and subway services Commuters in 275 Chinese cities can now add their T-Union public transportation ...

Just over a third of UK consumers now have a digital wallet (34%), but that proportion rises to more than two thirds among 18-34 year olds (64%) compared with just 18% among 54-65 year olds, a survey ...

“75% of all Mastercard transactions across Europe are now contactless,” Milan Gauder, Mastercard’s EVP product and innovation for Europe, explains. “This increase in contactless limits will mean ...

Google Wallet is now available in Argentina, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Montenegro, bringing the total number of countries where the digital wallet is available to 66. The ...

LIMITED EDITION: The physical perfume bottles will have an NFC tag that connects to the NFT Luxury perfume brand Byredo is to let collectors create a customised scent in the form of a non-fungible ...

ADOPTION: 507m iPhone users globally had activated Apple Pay by September 2020 The number of iPhone users globally that have activated Apple Pay has grown by 66m over the past year, from 441m in ...

TAP TO PAY: Merchants in Taiwan can now use their iPhone to accept contactless card and digital wallet payments Merchants in Taiwan have become the first outside the USA to be able to accept in-store ...

Canada’s DCBank has partnered with technology supplier XTM to provide shopping malls and entertainment venues with ‘reverse ATMs’ that let customers instantly convert their physical money into a ...