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8.2KGoogleGoogle Launches Google Pay, Sunsets Android Pay
Alphabet’s Google announced news on Monday (Jan. 8) that it is housing Android Pay and Google Wallet under one brand: Google Pay. In...
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3.4KPayment MethodsRambus, Partners Enable Interac Debit On Android Pay
Rambus announced Monday (June 5) that it along with Google and Interac Association/Acxsys Corp., to enable Interac Debit on Android Pay. According...
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3.1KPayment MethodsGoogle Wallet Website Gets Instant
Good news for anyone looking to shave off some precious seconds from person-to-person cash transfers. 9to5Google reported that Google Wallet has revamped its website,...
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15.2KPayment MethodsGoogle Wallet Now Transfers Funds Directly To Your Bank
The latest update to the Google Wallet app will enable users to make automatic bank transfers, no longer requiring that funds be...
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Say Goodbye To Google Wallet Debit Cards
Thy physical Google Wallet debit cards will soon be no more. Google announced late last week that it will no longer support...
- Apple Pay
Apple Pay’s Big Drop
About 18 months ago, Apple Pay awakened the world to the possibilities and potential of using a mobile phone as a replacement...
- Mobile Commerce
The Year Of Mobile Payments 2015
In the first hours of 2016, there’s one general observation to be made about the payments industry in 2015: Mobile drove the...
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5.9KNewsGoogle Wallet Goes iOS And Upgrades P2P
Google has expanded the functionality of its mobile payment system. Late last week, the company announced an update to Google Wallet that...
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9.2KNewsPoynt Raises $28M To Ship ‘Smart’ Payment Terminals
Former head of Google Wallet and longtime PayPal senior executive Osama Bedier is ready to bring the “world’s first smart terminal” to...
- Mobile Commerce
MasterCard’s Express Lane To Secure Digital Commerce
The modern payments business is just about six decades old. For most of that time, the dominant form factor has been the...
- Mobile Commerce
Is Fear Holding Mobile Payments Back?
Mobile payments and consumer adoption is a lot like the chicken and egg conundrum — the chicken being the merchants and the...
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2.9KMobile CommerceAre P2P Payments Next For Apple Pay?
Apple could be gearing up to enter the peer-to-peer payments market through Apple Pay. VentureBeat reported Thursday (July 2) that a patent...
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5.7KExclusive SeriesPYPL Countdown, Google Payments And Facebook Pay
Ah, summer vacation. But what a foreign concept for the biggest mobile payments players. PayPal will soon be independent, Google is crafting a...
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3.6KNewsGoogle’s Android Fingerprint Sensor Comes With Swedish Touch
Last week, during its yearly and awaited developer conference in San Francisco, Google unveiled Android M, which will be available to the public next...
- Mobile Commerce
SIM Partners And Vibes Add Marketing To Local Searches
A new partnership is looking to turn searchers into buyers based on their location. Local search technology company SIM Partners announced yesterday...
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6.2KNewsGoogle Wallet Funds Now Insured
Google Wallet just made its digital wallet a little more secure. According to a Yahoo Finance report, Google has taken the necessary...
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Google Wallet Adds More Merchants
With Apple Pay adding merchants to its list day and night, could its step-cousin Google Wallet lag far behind? Not really. Google...
- Mobile Commerce
First Apple Pay – Now ChowNow Adds Google Wallet
Google secured a new partnership with ChowNow, the online restaurant ordering platform, that will integrate Google Wallet into its app — giving the...
- Mobile Commerce
Google Wallet Adds New Features
The ninth instantiation of Google Wallet is out for public consumption. Well, technically the eighth. Google has brought us version 9.0 of...
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Google Wallet Privacy Lawsuit Will Move Forward
Google’s request to throw out a lawsuit regarding the privacy of Google Wallet users has been dismissed by U.S. District Judge Beth...
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Google’s Secret New Gmail Bill Pay Feature
Google’s digital payment efforts have taken a new turn as reports reveal the company is working on a new way to make...
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2.1KNewsGoogle Wallet Grabs A “Lyft”
After Apple Pay and Paypal, Lyft has now announced Google Wallet’s integration to its ride-sharing app. With the integration, Lyft riders can...
- Apple Pay
Zappos Adds TouchID For Seamless Shopping Experience
Online retailer Zappos, part of the Amazon family, announced on March 4 that its mobile app is now Touch ID enabled through...
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Softcard Shuts Down After Google Buy
Just two days after Google announced an acquisition of Softcard assets, reports say Softcard is bidding farewell to its wallet mobile application...
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Is Android Pay Next For Google?
Google Wallet is still in the trenches fighting to compete with digital payment behemoth Apple Pay, but now Google is rumored to...
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3.3KMobile CommerceGoogle Buys Softcard Technology And Buries The Brand
Google has effectively acquired Softcard, the mobile payments system backed by Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, and will pay the mobile carriers to...
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Mobile Payments’ Red Carpet
Who’s Walking Mobile Payments’ Red Carpet? Let’s face it; you don’t have to see a single movie nominated for an Oscar...
- Mobile Commerce
Apple Passbook, Google Wallet Apps Now Include Ads
A new generation of mobile ads have made their way to Apple Passbook and Google Wallet. On Friday (Feb. 20), mobile marketing...
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Can Google Ignite An mWallet, Compete With Apple Pay and Herd Cats?
Google has high hopes for its mobile wallet and two big challenges. One is the lurking 800 pound gorilla that is Apple...
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Google Bags Kenyan Payments Scheme
Google announced on Feb. 16 that it will be terminating its Kenyan cashless payment program BebaPay on March 15, in a move...
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How Pin Pads Power Payments Data
Marc Freed-Finnegan doesn’t think receipts are exciting. What he does think is that they are is essential. “Table stakes,” he calls them, in terms...
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Google Expands P2P Platform
Extending its wallet service outside the US, Google rolled out its P2P money transfer service in the UK. With the rollout, Gmail...
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Google Wallet Hooks Up With WePay To Add 200K Online Retailers
Google is trying to tackle the mobile-commerce payments problem by getting more merchants to use its two-tap Instant Buy system. The Android...
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Google May Be In Talks To Buy Softcard
Google may be positioning itself to add another mobile wallet under its umbrella, as reports have surfaced that the technology giant may...
- Apple Pay
Apple Pay Goes Live At Another Grocery Chain, And It Wasn’t As Easy As It Looks
Apple Pay has gone live at yet another regional grocery group. The 217 Lucky, Save Mart and FoodMaxx supermarkets in Northern California...
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1.6KAlternative FinancesWhat Payments Players Want Under The Tree
The end is near! Well at least in terms of holiday retail is concerned. As the sun rises on Panic aka Super...
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2.7KApple PayApple Pay By The Numbers: Acceptance Grows As More Issuers Added
Apple Pay goes NBA, maybe to India and definitely on vacation. It teamed up with Priceline to join the travel market and...
- Apple Pay
With Priceline, Apple Pay Is Now Travel Brand Must-Have
With Priceline.com’s addition of Apple Pay to its travel-booking app last week, Apple Pay is well on its way to becoming a...
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5.2KApple PayApple Now Lets Google Wallet Use TouchID, Split Checks
Apple, which uses its iTunes accept/reject power to control potential rivals, is slightly loosening control on Google Wallet. A new update to...
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Google Wallet Now Bribing Shoppers To Join
If you can download Google Wallet and can somehow persuade enough friends—OK, if you’re trying to force them to use Google Wallet,...
- Mobile
When Payments Picks Puppets
I’ll bet you didn’t know that puppetry and payments have a lot in common. They are both about 3,000 years old. Both...
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2.0KInternationalThe Weird Week In Payments
“When the going gets tough, the weird go pro.” Hunter S. Thompson "Gonzo journalist” Hunter Thompson sure captured the week in payments...
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Google Wallet Abandons In-App Purchases
Google Wallet has officially pulled out of the in-app business—although it will continue to handle such purchases until March 2, 2015—and has...
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2.0KMobile CommerceCanada combats imaginary Google Wallet fees
Canada is eyeing regulations that would allow retailers to avoid fees from mobile payment services that don’t actually exist yet, a recent...
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Apple Pay May Be Dragging NFC and Google Wallet Forward in Its Wake
Apple Pay is driving NFC volume up and pulling Apple’s NFC rivals along with it, according to preliminary reports. In a speech...
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1.7KNewsGoogle Wallet Now Does Auto Reloads
Google has updated is mobile wallet to allow users to add automatic bank transfers into the digital accounts. The company made the...
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6.6KApple PayThe Real Reason Rite Aid Dumped Apple Pay
Ring, ring. Hi, Rite Aid. This is CurrentC (or a CurrentC rep) calling. You might not remember this since it was a...
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1.7KControversialWhat Only The “Almost Famous” Know About Payments
Nobody in the real world likes failure. When new business ventures are launching, entrepreneurs talk about the great and potent success they...
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3.7KB2B PaymentsWhat’s Next In Payments?
Oh, what a five years it has been! On October 20, 2009, Warren Buffet (via a recorded video interview) helped us launch...
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Google’s Payments and Retail Focus
Investing in its own innovations like Google Express, Google wallet and creating a mobile payment focused mindset were among the highlights of Google’s...
