Walking down Apple’s 10-year queue memory lane, plus all of the payments and commerce news you missed last week.

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TRENDING: Putting IT Professionals Through Cyberattack Boot Camp


Getting Retailers To The Point Of No Returns


Apple Closes In On $1 Trillion Market Cap


Earnings RoundUp — The Big Ten: Including First Data, Shopify, Starbucks, MoneyGram and Western Union


The New York Subway’s Better Digital Ticket To Ride


Theory Of Payments Evolution: EMV Will Get Better With Age


Suppliers Faced With New Friction As More Invoices Get Paid Electronically


Building Foundations For IoT Castles In The Cloud


Things To Know: The Industries Getting Subscription Commerce Right (And Wrong)


What’s Really Behind The 'Fab' In Fabletics?


Facebook Crushes Expectations; Warns of Increased Costs Coming Soon


Samsung Pay: From Mobile Payment Method To Commerce Enabler


Millennial Entrepreneurs’ Optimism Is Booming — Here’s Their Top Concern


Fraudsters And The Retail Identity Crisis


NEW STUDY: Who Are The Financial Invisibles?


Things To Know: Store Front Business Index Predictions Vs. Reality


Finding The Right Loot For A Rarified Audience


The Interoperable Omni


TRENDING: How DraftKings Ups Its Payment Game


Chase Finds Veterans Gearing Up To Sell Their Small Businesses


Kellogg’s Taps Into The Stranger Side Of Commerce


Mastercard Posts Biggest Revenue Jump All Year


The Matchmaker Is In: Bootler, the Kayak Of Online Food Delivery


KYC: Knowing Your (Onboarding) Costs


Being (Artificially) Intelligent About High Fashion


The FTC On Identity Fraud’s Biggest Threat


Payday Lending Rules Seem Likely To Escape The CRA


TRENDING: Lassoing Loyalty And Rewards Into One Mobile Program


Millennials 'Feather' Their Nest With Furniture Subscriptions


PYMNTS Talk Back: The Bitcoin Breakdown


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Waiting For Apple X: The One Line People Don’t Seem To Mind
 

The smartphone and apps have done a lot of amazing things to transform payments and commerce, like skipping the line by ordering ahead. Ironically, the tech giant that launched the very app store that gave birth to those skip-the-line apps has the one line its ardent fans don’t seem to want to skip. Undeterred by the steep price tag, hundreds and even thousands of walk-in customers queued up outside each of Apple’s retail locations hours, days and, in some cases, months before the iPhone X hit shelves. But that's nothing new. Join us for a walk down Apple’s 10-year queue memory lane.

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Facebook: Too Big To Govern?
 

Facebook made a trip to Capitol Hill earlier this week to answer lawmakers’ questions about its role in letting the Russians use its platform to spread fake news, thus influencing the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Karen Webster says the general issue of fake news and fake accounts on social media isn’t all that new — but does raise some interesting concerns now regarding platform governance. For one, what happens when platform owners fail to balance the need to make money, the interests of their investors and the needs of their key stakeholders? And, when should regulators move in to fill the void?

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