Latest Google News: Finextra Research

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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ING betas Android ATM locater

Dutch bank ING has launched a new application for T-Mobile's G1 Google phone that combines the built-in GPS technology with the handset's compass and camera to 'point' users in the direction of the nearest bank ATM.

02 February 2009

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Bank of America offers m-banking apps for Google Android

Bank of America has become the first bank to offer a mobile phone application on Google's Android Market, which opened for business Wednesday with 50 apps available for download.

23 October 2008

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