Eating out with friends or family can be a wonderful experience full of good food, fellowship and an all-around feeling of fraternal bliss. Planning to eat out with a group of friends and family, on the other hand, often turns into a friction-filled experience when...
For Google, a bit of backtracking. In the wake of controversy over its Chrome browser that dominated headlines this week, the search giant has said it will change some of the ways the web browser operates. Concerns had been raised this week over how the...
Combine visual smarts with digital context and you’ve created an online shopping method that can respond to consumer impulses and discovery in ways that can feel pleasingly intimate – and can even lead to significant profit boosts. That’s one angle through which you can view...
Google is working on using QR codes to allow its users to send peer-to-peer (P2P) payments. While Google Pay already enables P2P payments, XDA-Developers revealed that the company is adding support for QR codes to make that process a bit easier, at least if a...
Alphabet’s Google has inked a deal with Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi in which the car makers will use Google’s Android operating system to run in-car media displays. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, combined, the car makers that are part of the alliance...
How do consumers really want to search online? That’s a question with obvious relevance to payment and commerce operators. Perhaps a better, more specific question is this: Even with Google’s search engine dominance (a dominance that seems as currently eternal as, say, the power of the...
Think of online privacy as a race. With consumers increasingly focused on how their data and web personas are used by eCommerce and other digital organizations, regulators and lawmakers are moving to get ahead of that political and cultural wave. Payments, commerce and tech companies,...
Google and Mastercard inked a behind-the-scenes deal in which certain Google advertisers had access to data that shows if an online ad resulted in a purchase in a physical store. Bloomberg, citing four people with knowledge of the deal, reported advertisers have been using the...
Google has announced that it is partnering with select Indian banks to offer consumers instant, pre-approved loans via Google Pay (formerly known as Tez). Last year, the company launched Tez, its digital payments app for India. This week, Google announced that it is rebranding the app as...
