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Google Quits Cookies As Data Privacy Regs Show Fangs

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How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. And what does the world look like without cookies?

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New Payment APIs, Tez Growth, Mobile Expansion Could Point to Bigger Fintech Ambitions for Google

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EXCLUSIVE— Is Google looking to become a fintech power? For instance, while Google did not release numbers for its mobile […].

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BBVA On Google, Digital Banking And The Rise Of The ‘Everyday App’

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Where once the marquee names in tech (and no shortage of FinTechs) jockeyed for primary banking services relationships, an increasing number of partnerships are now taking shape. In an announcement, the bank said it would work with Google to debut a co-branded, FDIC-insured, digital-only bank account next year.

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Google Pushing for More Fintech Biz

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Google is offering up its machine-learning infrastructure to “cool fintech startups.” ” The Google Cloud Computing allows for massive — and we mean massive — database queries, and offers the infrastructure to build deep machine-learning at scale.

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Google To Team With Banks To Offer Consumer Checking Accounts

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Google is planning to launch consumer checking accounts next year in partnership with Citigroup and Stanford University, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Wednesday (Nov. The branding will reflect the financial institutions and not Google. “Our It may be the slightly longer path, but it’s more sustainable.”.

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Klarna Enables Google Pay For In-Store US Purchases

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Klarna , the Swedish global payments and eCommerce platform, has introduced Google Pay for in-store purchases in the U.S. Sephora, Journeys and rue21 are among the first Klarna merchants to offer Google Pay in addition to Apple Pay, providing flexibility, security and contactless payments to customers. “We’re million U.S.

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Google Pay for Android Goes Live Today [Video]

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Google has been on a mission to bring all its payment tools under the Google Pay brand, and today that includes Android Pay. Google said today that it has launched Google Pay for Android.

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