Sentence examples for payment efforts from inspiring English sources

Previous mobile payment efforts have been stymied largely because it is expensive for retailers to install scanners that read shiny cellphone screens and because Americans have been just as content to reach into their pockets and purses for a credit card as for a phone.

Apple's new payment system is live, and Apple Pay has already garnered more attention than most mobile payment efforts to date.

The project ties into Grab's payment efforts because GrabPay credits, its virtual currency, are used to pay to rent a cycle.

The startup — launched in 2010 and a 2009 alum of Y Combinator — was an early partner of Google's for expanding its payment efforts beyond its direct services, and also worked early on with Apple Pay.

Overall, this could be a big challenge to Square and PayPal's local payment efforts, depending on how aggressively Amazon decides to go after winning over users of its competing services.

NFC, too, is something Apple is said to finally be embracing, also owing to how it can help its mobile payments efforts, and potentially for easier pairing between the new iPhone and its brand new mystery wearable.

The Wall Street Journal says that Apple is looking into a way to expand its mobile payments efforts into a means by which its users can pay for physical goods using iOS mobile devices via their existing iTunes accounts.

Unlike with Google's earlier mobile payments effort with Google Wallet – which mobile carriers fought against due to their interest in their own payment solution Softcard (previously called Isis, and rebranded for obvious reasons) – this time around, Google made an effort to partner with mobile operators on Android Pay.

In his budget, Mr. Obama showed he was serious when he asked Congress to set aside more than $600 billion as a down payment on efforts to remake the health care system over the next 10 years, partly by limiting the income tax deductions that the most affluent taxpayers claim.

To maintain the current piecework payment system, efforts should be encouraged to preclude both overtreatment and undertreatment.

The district's budget woes have been blamed on a lack of pension reform in Springfield, with a ballooning pension payment hamstringing CPS' efforts.