Foreign news: Apple to track card balances

Banking Day staff
Apple has been granted a patent for a system that tracks the status of a smartphone user's card balances, itnews reports. Apple is developing an opt-in mobile advertising service that would send ads for a purchase price "less or equal to the user's available credit." Apple also plans to link the service to a payment system, so that users could click on an ad, make a purchase and have the payment processed automatically.