Discover Financial Services recently announced their partnership with Google Wallet allowing cardholders to use their Discover cards within the Google Wallet application for Near Field Communication (NFC) payments at the point-of-sale as well as through using Google Wallet online. The key feature of this partnership is that Discover customers can login and save their credit
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The four major wireless carriers in the U.S. along with financial institutions, card associations and mobile wallet providers have formed and joined the Mobile Payments Committee with the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA). The purpose of the committee is to define best practices for mobile payment solutions while educating legislators, merchants and consumers to foster and
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To complement their payment capabilities and continue to innovate their mobile wallet, Google acquired payments technology company TxVia in early April for an undisclosed price. Read More
A web security firm recently uncovered and made public the fact that they were able to gain access to the Google Wallet application by decrypting the hashed PIN. Read More
Until just recently Google Wallet could only be used with a NFC-enabled phone offered by a single carrier, Sprint. However, AT&T customers can now also use Google Wallet with select devices, even though AT&T is a founding member of the competing mobile wallet consortium Isis. Read More
Since launch Google Wallet has been available on the Samsung Nexus smartphone offered by Sprint, but when Verizon started offering the same device at the end of 2011 they blocked the Google Wallet application. Read More
