{"id":86832,"date":"2019-02-20T18:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T10:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/?p=236250"},"modified":"2019-02-20T18:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T10:51:41","slug":"apple-pay-expansion-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/20\/apple-pay-expansion-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pay expansion continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        \tSaudi Arabia and the Czech Republic became the latest markets to gain Apple Pay availability, as the US company continued a global rollout of the mobile payment service.<\/p>\n<p>Availability in the Czech Republic was widely expected, with reports in January indicating a launch was in the works [1] and banking partners were already on board.<\/p>\n<p>The payment service is available in neighbouring countries Germany and Poland, with Slovakia rumoured to be next on Apple\u2019s list of target markets.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is the second market in the Middle East to receive the service after it launched in the United Arab Emirates in 2017 [2].<\/p>\n<p>Globally, Apple Pay is available in more than 30 markets, comprising countries, special administrative regions and independent republics.<\/p>\n<p>Although Apple executives regularly praise [3] the performance of the service, the company doesn\u2019t provide comprehensive figures for uptake either in specific regions or overall.<\/p>\n[1] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/apple-pay-set-for-eastern-europe-launches-report\/<br \/>\n[2] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/apple-pay-launches-in-4-new-markets\/<br \/>\n[3] https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/featured-content\/money-home-banner\/cook-vaunts-german-apple-pay-reception\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia and the Czech Republic became the latest markets to gain Apple Pay availability, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/money\/news-money\/apple-pay-expansion-continues\/\">Apple Pay expansion continues<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mobileworldlive.com\/\">Mobile World Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/2019\/02\/20\/apple-pay-expansion-continues\/\">\u95b1\u8b80\u5168\u6587 <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"slim_seo":[],"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3178,2,2047,3179,7],"tags":[398,402,397,414,413,410,499,409,407,408,406,399,400,394,10,401,396,787,786,784,782,783,764,785,403,412,411,395,405,404,778,779,780,781],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7prtj-mAw","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86833,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86832\/revisions\/86833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/test\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}