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Cook Pitches Apple Watch: 'Sitting Is the New Cancer'

CEO extols health benefits of smartwatch, says people won't want to live without it

(Newser) - If you could use a helper to occasionally tap you on the shoulder and remind you to get up out of your seat, Tim Cook knows just the gadget: the soon-to-arrive Apple Watch , which he talked up yesterday at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. "...

Tim Cook: Apple Pay Is 'Already No. 1'

CVS, Rite Aid rejection just a 'skirmish'

(Newser) - CVS and Rite Aid may have dropped Apple Pay , but the tech giant's boss isn't sweating it. "It’s a skirmish," Tim Cook told a tech conference yesterday. Meanwhile, he says, things are going well for the system, Fortune reports. "In the first 72 hours,...

2 Major Chains Dump Apple Pay
 2 Major Chains 
 Dump Apple Pay 

2 Major Chains Dump Apple Pay

CVS-Rite Aid consortium reportedly working on own payment system for 2015

(Newser) - While buzz continues to build among consumers about Apple Pay , at least two retailers have already jumped ship: CVS and Rite Aid. But the drugstore chains didn't simply dump Apple Pay on a whim—they're part of MCX (short for Merchant Customer Exchange), a retailer consortium that's...

Apple Pay Could Be Revolutionary
 Apple Pay Could 
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Apple Pay Could Be Revolutionary

The best reason to buy an iPhone 6?

(Newser) - There's a lot to like about the new iPhone 6—size, speed, software—but the most important feature is Apple Pay, Apple's new payment system, writes Rich Jaroslovsky at Quartz . Mobile-payment systems exist already from companies like Google and PayPal, but they haven't managed to pull in...

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