Consumer adoption of digital wallet services from Apple (AAPL) Pay, Alphabet’s (GOOGL) Google Android Pay and others is slowly rising in the U.S., but fewer people are using the services to make payments or get money. Just 12% of Internet users who were also banking customers used a digital wallet in 2015, according to Market Force Information data cited by eMarketer. While small, that share was still nearly double the 7% rate that Market Force
Google, the largest subsidiary of Alphabet (GOOGL), announced that its Google Express next-day delivery service is expanding further across Southern California. Starting Thursday, Southern California residents can shop from national stores such as Costco Wholesale (COST), Target (TGT), Kohl’s (KSS) and L’Occitane en Provence and get next-day delivery, Google said. The expansion makes quick deliveries available in “new cities, towns and rural
U.S. counterterrorism officials argued Wednesday for encryption specialists such as Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOGL) to provide backdoor access to their locked platforms so law enforcement can more easily detect and find terrorists, as the war on Islamic State broadens in the aftermath of the Paris massacre. ISIS recruiters have used Twitter (TWTR) to find sympathizers, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday during a New York cybersecurity