Alibaba teams up with Huawei to let Alipay Wallet users pay with just their fingerprint

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As Chinese internet giants are fighting to own people on mobile payment,_Alibaba has announced a way to make its payments service Alipay even more secure on a smartphone — with the introduction of fingerprinting technology in a deal that it inked with smartphone manufacturer Huawei. Alipay Wallet, the e-payment app_relaunched last year_to handle online-to-offline payments, will be integrated into Huawei’s soon-to-be-launched smartphone, the Mate 7, which boasts biometric security technology. Other than a fingerprint reader, the technology includes encryption and authentication managed by Huawei. This means that instead of entering passwords and codes, all that users have to do now...
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