Google

488 results about this entity

Period: 02 Aug 2002 - 29 Aug 2025

Google Wallet overhaul shifts emphasis away from NFC

Google has overhauled its mobile wallet service, opening it up to all Android devices running version 2.3 or higher and distancing it from its NFC-based origins.

Fidelity tests Google Glass markets app

US financial services giant Fidelity Investments has begun experimenting with Google Glass, developing an app that lets users keep an eye on the markets.

PrivatBank goggles at Google Glass; Motorola takes the password pill

Ukraine's PrivatBank has released a conceptual video showing how the bank's mobile applications will be used by customers donning Google Glass.

Square launches e-mail cash transfers; Google shutters CheckOut

Square is to move into PayPal's core territory with the invitation-only launch of a P2P email cash transfer service, dubbed Square Cash.

Google to use Gmail and Chrome assets to push Wallet uptake

With its mobile wallet struggling to gain traction on the high street, Google is to use its extensive Web assets to spur uptake, announcing a new payments API for Chrome browsers and the ability to send money as a Gmail attachment.

Google Wallet chief Bedier quits

The head of Google Wallet, Osama Bedier, has quit after two years in the job during which the mobile payments operation has failed to take off.

Google buys minority stake in Lending Club

Google has become a minority stake-holder in Lending Club after leading a $125 million deal to buy a share in the peer-to-peer loan specialist from existing investors.

Google search volumes can predict markets - study

Analysing how often key finance-related words are searched for using Google could help predict stock market moves, a new academic paper suggests.

Seeing is believing: PrivatBank eyes Google Glasses

Ukraine's PrivatBank is set to launch a full suite of banking apps for hipsters donning Google's smart glasses.

EBay shares slide as MasterCard threatens PayPal with new fees

Shares in eBay fell to a 2013 low yesterday amidst concerns that the online auction house's PayPal unit could be hit by MasterCard's plan to introduce a new 'digital wallet' fee.

Google joins bidders to build US consolidated audit trail system

Google, Nyse Technolgies and Thomson Reuters are among 31 firms to throw their hats into the ring to build a consolidated audit trail (CAT) system to monitor and analyse US trading activity.

Google and payments firms discuss blocking funds to illegal download sites - Telegraph

Google is in talks with Visa, MasterCard and PayPal about cutting off funding to illegal downloading Web Sites, according to the Telegraph.