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Google Pay Rolls Out Support For Peer-to-Peer Payments And Mobile Ticketing

July 10 2018

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• Google
• P2P

“One of the additions is peer-to-peer payments. You could already pay or request money from a friend through Google Pay Send, but as of today, you can also do it into the main Google Pay app…The Google Pay app is also gaining the ability to save mobile tickets and boarding passes, to be found in a […]

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Google Adds Tools For Brick-And-Mortar Stores To Boost Interest From Online Shoppers

June 12 2018

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“The company today launched a new feature called “See What’s In Store,” which will let physical stores provide a list of their inventory for free both in their Knowledge Panels (the boxes that appear in the right-hand column in the search results for a particular business) as well as on Google Maps. The new feature […]

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PayPal Starts Deeper Integration With Google; Users Can Now Pay Directly In Gmail, YouTube And More

May 24 2018

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• Google
• PayPal

“Google earlier this year rebranded all of its payment services under Google Pay to help it double down on making transactions across its platform more frictionless (and more used). Now comes another development: PayPal and Google are kicking off a deep integration, where users who add their PayPal details to their Google Play accounts will be able […]

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Google Pay rolling out on the web through desktop browsers and iOS

May 3 2018

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“In February, the revamped Android app was launched, while iOS gained the rebranded Google Pay Send to replace Wallet until the two features are fully merged. The latest launch sees the new “Buy with Google Pay” buttons fully rolling out through Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, “no matter the device.” Google reminds users that as long as they’ve added and […]

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A New Rivalry Brews As Flipkart, Amazon Cut Google Ad Spends

July 16 2018

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• Amazon
• Google
• India

“Google’s e-commerce push and the rising importance of Flipkart and Amazon in digital ads are the latest examples of how intertwined the tech business has become and how internet firms are increasingly encroaching on each other’s turf. A few years ago, it was unthinkable that Google would enter e-commerce or that Amazon could ever threaten […]

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Facebook, Google And More Unite To Let You Transfer Data Between Apps

July 20 2018

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• Facebook
• Google
• Microsoft
• Twitter

“From porting playlists in music streaming services to health data from fitness trackers to our reams of photos and videos, the DTP could be a boon for startups. Incumbent tech giants maintain a huge advantage in popularizing new functionality because they instantly interoperate with a user’s existing data rather than making them start from scratch. […]

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Google teams with HDFC Bank, ICICI, others for instant loans

August 29 2018

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• Google
• India

“Google India on Tuesday said it has rebranded its Indian payments app Tez as Google Pay and is partnering four banks to provide instant loans for the app’s users. In the coming weeks, Google Pay users will be able to access customised loans from HDFC Bank Ltd, ICICI Bank Ltd, Federal Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd […]

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Mobile Money Heats Up in India as Google Doubles Down

August 28 2018

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• Google
• India
• Mobile Money

“A day after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said it had invested in the parent company of India’s largest digital-payments firm, called Paytm, Google said it is expanding its mobile money service in the South Asian nation. It is partnering with several local banks to offer consumer loans from within its app in the coming weeks, aiming to assist […]

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Google releases Android 9 Pie with added NFC, secure element, TEE and biometric security

August 8 2018

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• Google

“Google has begun rolling out Android 9 ‘Pie’, the latest version of its mobile operating system which includes support for GlobalPlatform’s Open Mobile API, a new BiometricPrompt API, and added NFC and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) security techniques.”

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Google and Mastercard Cut a Secret Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales

August 31 2018

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• Advertising
• Google
• Mastercard

“For the past year, select Google advertisers have had access to a potent new tool to track whether the ads they ran online led to a sale at a physical store in the U.S. That insight came thanks in part to a stockpile of Mastercard transactions that Google paid for.”