Circle Brings NFC to Android App for Touchless Payments
Touchless mobile payments are now available to select Circle users. The bitcoin wallet and payment service has integrated near-field communication (NFC), enabling users to transact with its Android App wherever bitcoin and NFC are accepted. Circle is a digital money platform that delivers streamlined, user-friendly functionality similar to that of traditional online payment tools like PayPal or Apple Pay, both key players in the fast-growing mobile payments movement. A growing number of developers in the digital currency space are looking to NFC to simplify and speed up secure payments.....
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It was recently noted that Circle Internet Financial had mobile applications for iOS and Android in the works. In fact, the Boston-based company demonstrated their mobile applications in London last month, but we haven't really gotten a good look at the Android version of the app. Until today. Kind of. Nat Tarbox, Product Designer at Circle, posted an image this week offering users a very tiny glimpse as to what they can expect the Android version of the app to look like. Here it is: It's certainly got something in common with the Circle website, and that's that it looks clean and spiffy.....
Circle released today the first native Circle apps for both iOS and Android. These apps are a critical companion to the Circle web service, allowing customers to use native apps to make payments, send and request money, and instantly deposit and convert money between dollars and Bitcoin. I am a user of the Circle web service since the closed beta before the public launch, and Circle is now an important part of my Bitcoin storage and transfer chain. I have always been impressed with the professional quality and immediateness of the user interface, and the responsiveness of the customer....
Anyone with iOS 10 will soon be able to use blockchain payments app Circle to send and receive payments directly within Apple’s iMessage app. Circle for iMessage represents a major step in the evolution of social message payments in the West, similar to what has already happened in China. Circle for iMessage is available from the App Store. Users updating to iOS 10 will automatically have Circle for iMessage. Send And Receive Within iMessage. Users will be able to send dollars, pound sterling, euro and bitcoin to anyone directly inside of iMessage. They will fund payments and cash out....
“Bitcoin Bank” Circle announced that people in the U.K. can now experience social payments over the open Internet in their native currency, pound sterling (GBP), using Circle’s updated apps for Android, iOS and the Web. The company was granted an e-money license by the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority. Circle is extending the ability to hold and pay in U.S. dollars, available in all U.S. states, to Circle account holders in the U.K. British Circle users are now able to hold GBP and make GBP payments instantly, with zero fees. Circle also announced that it’s eliminating transaction and....
Blockchain payments firm Circle has integrated with Apple's iMessage, a move that allows users to send payments in dollars, euro, pound sterling and bitcoin through the popular texting platform. Circle executives said the launch marks the end of preparations that began in June, when Apple announced it would open up iMessage to third-party developers. "We decided to jump on it," Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said in an interview. "We had been planning to build out a model for app-less payments using Circle that would work in all the places people communicate and interact."....