Latest Google News: Finextra Research

Google hiring bond traders

Google has posted job ads for traders and analysts at its Mountain View headquarters, raising speculation on the wilder fringes of the Web that the search engine giant may be looking to start its own hedge fund.

23 March 2010

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PayPal, Google and Equifax back launch of Open Identity Exchange

Google, PayPal, Equifax, VeriSign, Verizon, CA, and Booz Allen Hamilton have announced the formation of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a non-profit organisation dedicated to building trust in the exchange of online identity credentials across public and private sectors.

03 March 2010

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Google trials UK price comparison service

Search giant Google has moved into the crowded UK price comparison market, trialling a service that lets people evaluate credit cards.

24 February 2010

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Sagem to secure Android phone with m-banking friendly fingerprint ID

French handset manufacturer Sagem Wireless has revealed plans to launch a Google Android phone that incorporates fingerprint authentication technology that would help secure mobile financial services.

04 February 2010

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Malicious banking app found on Android Market

First Tech Credit Union has warned that a malicious application designed to steal banking details has made its way onto Google's Android Market.

11 January 2010

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Google mashes up World Bank data

Google has added a raft of economic statistics from the World Bank to its new "public data" search facility.

12 November 2009

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Judge forces Google to shut down Gmail account after bank error

A US court has ordered Google to temporarily shut down a Gmail account that a bank mistakenly sent sensitive customer data to.

29 September 2009

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Bank sues Google after sending confidential data to wrong Gmail address

A US bank has taken Google to court in a bid to force the search giant to hand over information relating to a Gmail account that the financial institution wrongly sent sensitive customer data to.

22 September 2009

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Google plans micropayments platform for newspapers

Search giant Google is developing a micropayments platform that it hopes will be used by newspapers to charge for access to online content.

10 September 2009

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LendingTree suit claims Google planning loan aggregator service

Google is about to enter the online mortgage loan aggregator market, according to LendingTree, which is suing a technology vendor it claims is working with the search giant.

27 August 2009

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Finextra weekly news review podcast

Oracle offers to buy Sun Microsystems; Comscore statistics show that online banking usage is still growing in Europe and the US; new launches and suppliers for European dark pools; and Bank of America, MasterCard, Visa, Obopay, Google and Walmart all get embroiled in an e-payments patent dispute. It's all in this week's news review podcast.

24 April 2009

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Google search reveals stolen credit card details

The credit card details of 19,000 Brits have been found on a cached Google page, where they had been accidentally published by fraudsters.

31 March 2009

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