On the heels ofSquare ’s mobile payments launching , Google is also planning a strategy to let you make payment using your phone .
https://gizmodo.com/square-iphone-based-mobile-payment-system-kills-cash-re-5804589
According to Bloomberg , Google is getting quick to bring out a peregrine requital system on May 26 that will let Android user of some Sprint / Nextel earphone make payment usingNear bailiwick Communications(NFC ) . One obvious candidate : Google ’s own Nexus S 4G. That will countenance users pay for objects at NFC - equipped registers merely by waving their earphone close to the money box . The backend will rely on VERIFONE and Vivotech to fill out the charge . late Google NFCpayment rumors implicatedMastercard and Citigroup as well .
https://gizmodo.com/rumor-google-to-use-mastercard-and-citigroup-tech-for-5786273
It ’s rather dissimilar thanthe Square service annunciate yesterday , which requires both the client and merchant to be running the Square app on their iPhones and ( in the merchant ’s case ) iPad cash register . It seems like bad news for Square , as it will be much easy to curl a phone with NFC and have the payment total ( presumably ) directly from the user ’s telephone set eyeshade than to have both parties operate a consecrated app . And of course , as NFC continues to show up in more headphone , that will progressively aim adoption . [ Bloomberg ]
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