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Android Pay, Google’s mobile payments service, is set to launch in the UK in March. Android Pay, which was launched in September, lets consumers pay at store checkout counters by waving their Android smartphones in front of an NFC POS. The UK launch would be Android Pay’s second international market and a major step forward for the fledgling. In [...]

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Mobile wallet transactions number in the European Union will experience a CAGR of 61.8% over 2016-2021, ensuring the revenue for the payments industry will pass the €1 billion bar by 2021, according to a newly published market research by Intelling. Focusing on the ‘Pay’ mobile wallets, Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay, Google Wallet, …, [...]

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Android Pay users will soon be able to earn rewards such as Google Store credit, Google Play Music subscriptions and Chromecast devices when using the mobile payment service for in-store purchases. “The Tap 10: Android Pay Rewards is a short-term customer participation program operated by Google,” the company explains in the promotion’s terms and conditions. “Any rewards that [...]

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Google has revealed a major expansion of its Android Pay system, letting people pay from within apps. Google is updating its mobile payments platform to make it easier for Android users to make in-app purchases. The feature is available now in more than 20 apps. The firm boasted there are also now over 1 million locations [...]

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and a whole raft of others. There has been plenty of talk about mobile wallets, but now, as the “Pays” begin to roll out we take a brief look at their difference. The infographic above, created by CNN Money, breaks down the major differences between the three major Pays as well as PayPal and Bitcoin methods [...]

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