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November 18, 2015

Apple Pay expands to fend off competition

  • The mobile-payment service is moving into more countries and adding new banks and merchants.
    • By ANICK JESDANUN
    AP Technology Writer

    NEW YORK — Apple's year-old mobile-payments service is expanding to more countries, banks and merchants, as it faces growing competition and some challenges before it becomes as commonplace as plastic cards.

    Apple Pay is available in Canada starting Tuesday and in Australia on Thursday. Those are two countries where “tap” payments — tapping a phone or chip-embedded card to the store's payment machine — are already more common than in the U.S. In those countries, however, Apple Pay is limited initially to American Express cards.


     
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