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The internet company machine Google is much more than a search engine nowadays...it's almost a way of life. With all the great programs like Maps, Documents and Earth, Google has partnered with Master Card and Citigroup, and created the Google Wallet, en electronic app for your smartphone that sinks up to your debit card. Retailing Today explains it further in their blog post. Thanks Robert Antall for these great blog posts.
Search engine giant Google announced the launch of Google Wallet, a mobile payment service that allows consumers to pay for goods via their smartphones. The application is currently being field-tested in San Francisco and New York, and will be available to consumers in the summer.
The new Google Wallet will initially work with a MasterCard from Citigroup and with a prepaid debit card issued by Google, and on one smartphone, the Google Nexus S 4G carried by Sprint Nextel. It will connect only to MasterCard PayPass terminals. There are more than 124,000 PayPass-enabled merchants nationally, according to Google, and more than 311,000 globally.
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