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Google Pay Launches International Money Transfers With Wise and Western Union

May 11 2021

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• Google
• Remittances

“Alphabet Inc’s Google has launched international money transfer partnerships with remittances firms Wise and Western Union Co for users of its U.S. payments app, the companies said on Tuesday. Google Pay users in the United States can now transfer money to app customers in India and Singapore, with plans to expand to the 80 countries […]

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Google Shopping for Android Shuts Down in Favor of the Web – 9to5Google

April 12 2021

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• Google
• Remote Commerce

“A new Google Shopping experience that featured a personalized homepage launched in 2019. On Android, Google rebranded the existing Express app to Shopping, but it’s now shutting down the mobile experience in favor of just the web.”

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Google Launches Android Ready SE Alliance to Drive Adoption of Digital Credentials

March 29 2021

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• Google

“Google has joined with secure element (SE) vendors to launch the Android Ready SE Alliance to accelerate the adoption of new use cases for Android devices including digital car keys and mobile IDs. The alliance is creating and rolling out a set of open source, validated and ready-to-use SE applets for use in conjunction with […]

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The New Google Pay Repeats All the Same Mistakes of Google Allo

March 8 2021

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• Google

“The new Google Pay app came out of beta this week, and it marks the first step in a major upheaval in the Google Pay service. Existing Google Pay users are about to go through a transition reminiscent of the recent move from Google Music to YouTube Music: Google is killing one perfectly fine service […]

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Google Maps Will Now Let You Pay for Public Transportation and Parking Through Its App

February 19 2021

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• Google
• Transit

“Google Maps is adding a couple of new useful features: the ability to pay for parking or buy a train ticket right from the app. Google Maps is integrating two mobile parking payment services into its app, Passport and ParkMobile . Both offer the ability to find, pay for, and replenish parking meters or parking […]

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Google Will Soon Allow Gambling Apps on the Play Store in the US

January 29 2021

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• Google

“Android users in regions other than the UK, Ireland, France and Brazil will soon be able to find and download real-money gambling apps from the Play Store. Google has updated its program policy allowing apps that “enable or facilitate online gambling” in 15 more countries, including the US, starting on March 1st.”

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Google Pay Now Works With 67 More American Financial Institutions

December 21 2020

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• Google

“Google Pay already works with about 3,000 partners, but that doesn’t hinder it from continuing to support more banks and credit unions. After adding 89 financial institutions to the list last month, the mobile payment service just added another 67 just in the US.”

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Britain’s competition regulator sets out new regime for tech giants

December 8 2020

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• Facebook
• Google
• UK

“Britain’s competition watchdog outlined a new regime for regulating tech giants such as Google and Facebook, saying it needed new powers to harness the full potential of digital markets and drive competition and innovation. It proposed a new, legally binding code of conduct, pro-competitive interventions in the market and enhanced merger rules, overseen by a […]

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PayPal Accelerates Its Digital Transformation With Google Cloud to Support Customer Needs During Pandemic–and Beyond

May 13 2021

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• Cloud computing
• Google
• PayPal

“Google Cloud and PayPal today announced they are deepening their relationship to further accelerate PayPal’s digital transformation and evolving customer needs. Under this expanded relationship, Google Cloud will provide both infrastructure and analytics capabilities to support PayPal’s growth, helping the company process transactional data at massive scale.”

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New Ways to Save, Commute and Manage Money With Google Pay

May 7 2021

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• Google

“Last year, we launched a reimagined Google Pay to be a safe, simple and helpful way to pay and manage your finances. The app is full of ways to pay friends and businesses, save with offers and rewards and stay on top of your money. Today, we are announcing three ways to help you save […]