Now playing: Watch this: Look ma, no hands! Testing Google’s Hands Free payments 1:56 Google will shut down its experimental Hands Free payment app next week. The pilot program, which launched last March for Android and iOS, gave customers a new way to pay for items, but was only available at a limited number of …
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Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service for phones running the OS, is up and running in Japan, two months after Apple’s rival service went live on the island nation. The launch will allow Android handset owners to use their devices to complete transactions at more than 470,000 locations that already accept Rakuten Edy, a prepaid e-money service, Google said in …
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On a Friday this month in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park, I chatted with a handful of people about what it was like for them to buy T-shirts, toothpaste or TVs on their phones. I got an earful. “It’s difficult to move around and look for other options,” Munaf Tinwala, a 42-year-old chemical engineer from Long Island, told me. “It’s just …
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Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service for phones running the OS, arrived in Hong Kong on Wednesday. The launch will allow Android handset owners to use their devices to complete transactions at more than 5,000 retail locations in Hong Kong, including 7-Eleven, Circle K, McDonald’s and Fortress, Google said in a statement. The search giant’s latest attempt to spur people …
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The two big names in contactless payments are slowly making their way into the Australian market, with ANZ today announcing that it will extend support for Apple Pay and Android Pay to customers with an ANZ-issued MasterCard. From today, the 500,000-plus ANZ customers with a MasterCard will be able to use Apple Pay on their iPhone or Android Pay on …
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