On Thursday, Shares of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), gained 0.46% to $127.88.
Worldpay, a leading global provider of payment and risk services, will offer its customers access to Apple Pay, a new category of service that transforms mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay when it launches in the UK next month.
As the UK’s leading payment provider, Worldpay is known for bringing innovative new technology to retailers and assisting them to offer a better shopping experience. Having accepted the first contactless payment ever made in the UK, Worldpay has been instrumental in the adoption of Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, processing £2billion worth of contactless payments in just four years*.
In readiness for the launch of Apple Pay, Worldpay is working with retailers of all sizes across the UK to make over 250,000 card machines capable of accepting NFC payments. With Worldpay’s support, well-known high street brands like Arcadia , Dune, SPAR, and others who accept contactless cards at the Point of Sale, will also soon be able to accept Apple Pay.
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, watches, and portable digital music players worldwide. The company also sells related software, services, accessories, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications.
Shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), inclined 1.06% to $47.77, during its last trading session, after Cablevision Systems dropped its advertising lawsuit against the carrier.
Verizon’s stock lifted following Cablevision dropping its lawsuit against the carrier, in which it had asked the court to rule that its advertising campaign against Verizon was indeed truthful, according to a Reuters report. Cablevision claimed that Verizon failed to use fiber optic cable in its FiOS service.
Although Cablevision dropped its lawsuit, it still reserves the right to later pursue the case, according to Reuters.
Verizon Communications Inc., through its auxiliaries, provides communications, information, and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses, and governmental agencies worldwide.
Finally, Alcatel-Lucent (NYSE:ALU), ended its last trade with 1.88% gain, and closed at $3.80.
Alcatel-Lucent, has launched a new device for residential and business use that will allow operators to accelerate the deployment of ultra-broadband access in order to meet ever-growing demand for faster data speeds in homes and the workplace.
The Alcatel-Lucent G.fast residential gateway is a simple, plug-and-play device that will eliminate the need for operators’ engineers to have to enter a customer’s premises to install, thanks to its use of the G.fast standard and application of existing telephone lines to extend fiber-like data speeds into the home.
With the number of connected devices predictable to reach 50-100 billion by 20201, the demand for more bandwidth and faster broadband speeds has never been greater. Fiber-to-the-home and G.fast technologies allow operators to bring gigabit broadband speeds to premises. However, maintaining those speeds inside a building can be more difficult with legacy home networks, poor WiFi speeds and reliability issues limiting how fast and how much data consumers can access at any given time. This problem becomes compounded as more devices are added onto the home network.
Alcatel-Lucent provides Internet protocol (IP) and cloud networking, and ultra- broadband access worldwide. The company’s Core Networking segment offers IP routing, carrier Ethernet, network functions virtualization, and software defined networking applications and infrastructure to meet the challenges of network traffic growth while supporting the delivery of cloud-enabled business, mobile, and residential services for service providers, mobile network operators, cable/multiple system operators, transportation, utilities, and large-scale enterprises.
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