EXCLUSIVE: Google’s Payments VP Shares New Insights about Digital Wallet Strategy

Google Wallet has thrown down the mobile payments gauntlet. Its open payments strategy, top-tier merchants and powerful ad/offers platform provides a compelling business case for consumers and merchants. It has also, at least for now, hitched its wagon to NFC. In this exclusive NEXTcast interview, MPD CEO Karen Webster talks to Osama Bedier, Google’s VP of Payments, about how Google Wallet plans to dominate mobile payments.

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    Osama is the VP of Payments at Google. He joined Google in January 2011 after seven years at PayPal and eBay. (Read Full Profile)

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