443 results about this entity
Period: 02 Aug 2002 - 08 Aug 2024
News
Microsoft is set to follow in the footsteps of Google and add contactless payments functionality to its latest mobile phone operating system, according to Bloomberg.
30 March 2011
Google has stepped up its assault on the mobile contactless payments market, beginning work with MasterCard and Citi, according to the Wall Street Journal.
28 March 2011
Charge Anywhere says it has developed software than turns Google's Nexus S Android phone into an NFC payments acceptance terminal.
24 March 2011
Google is to run tests of mobile payments at stores in New York and San Francisco in the summer, according to anonymous sources cited by Bloomberg.
15 March 2011
Google has acquired UK price comparison site BeatThatQuote for £37.7m.
08 March 2011
Search giant Google has reaffirmed its ambitions to become a power player in mobile payments by poaching PayPal's m-platform leader Osama Bedier.
27 January 2011
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has identified the development of mobile money platforms as a key strategic priority for the search engine giant in 2011.
20 January 2011
Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the latest upgrade to the firm's Android mobile phone operating system will include near field communication technology, enabling users to make contactless payments with their handsets.
16 November 2010
Worldwide smartphone sales soared 96% in the last year, with the iPhone and Google Android-based handsets both leapfrogging BlackBerry in the popularity stakes, according to Gartner.
11 November 2010
Bank of America and Citi are the latest financial services giants to consider letting their staff use iPhones and Google Android-based handsets as an alternative to BlackBerrys for corporate e-mail.
05 November 2010
Tech giants Apple and Google could be about to go head-to-head in a bidding war for mobile payments start-up Boku, according to the TechCrunch blog.
02 November 2010
Google is tapping its vast database of e-commerce figures to build a price index that will offer an alternative inflation measure to official statistics, according to the Financial Times.
12 October 2010
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