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Google Wallet Expands to Children

Google will soon let children use Android phones to make in-person purchases. It says there will be sufficient safeguards and controls for parents. The changes will be to Google Wallet. That's an app that lets users store card details and make payments in the real world without the card. The app also lets users store electronic versions of tickets and passes. The payments are contactless and use the NFC (near-field communication) chip in the phone. Users must authenticate the app through a security measure such as a PIN, passcode, fingerprint or facial recognition. Previously the app was only ... (view more)




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Google Wallet Now Available for Kids: What the Digital Wallet Offers

Google is planning to introduce digital wallets for children's accounts, allowing parents to manage their kids' allowance through Google Wallet.




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Mobile wallet payments - a systematic literature review with bibliometric and network visualisation analysis over two decades

The study aims to review the literature on mobile wallet payment and align research trends using a systematic literature review with bibliometric and network visualisation analysis over two decades. It uses bibliometric analysis of the literature research retrieved from the Web of Science database. The study period was from 2001 to 2021, with 1,134 research papers. It also provides the indicators like citation trends, cited reference patterns, authorship patterns, subject areas published on the mobile wallet, top contributing authors, and highly cited research articles using the database. Furthermore, network visualisation analysis, like the co-occurrence of author keywords and keywords plus terms, has also been examined using VOSviewer software. The bibliometric analysis shows that the Republic of China dominates mobile wallet payment, and India is a significant contributor. Furthermore, the constructions of the network map using a co-citation analysis and bibliographic coupling shows an interesting pattern of mobile wallet payment.




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Brivo Expands Brivo Wallet Pass Mobile Credentials With Google Wallet

At ISC West, Booth #20045, Brivo has announced the launch of support for Google Wallet mobile credentials to provide frictionless access with the tap of a phone. 




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Zentra Adds Resident Keys to Apple Wallet

Zentra has plans to expand its capabilities to the new Schlage XE360 Series later this year.




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Thunes unlocks global mobile wallet payments via Swift

Thunes has announced that its proprietary Direct Global Network...




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California's digital driver's licenses now work with Apple Wallet

Californians can now securely add their digital driver's license or state ID to the Apple Wallet app on their iPhone and Apple Watch, the company announced Thursday.




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Block releases Bitkey hardware wallet to 95 countries… kinda

Jack Dorsey’s Block (the company formerly known as Square) announced today that it is releasing its hardware Bitcoin wallet, Bitkey, in 95 countries. However, users can only preorder the device at the moment, with shipping starting in early 2024. The device will cost $150 USD. Block’s pitch to Bitcoin holders is that using a self-custodial […]

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The Most Secure Hardware Wallet is now on Indiegogo | Sleek, Secure, Simple

The HASHWallet Indiegogo campaign is out! Sign up and get 30% off and Free Vault service.




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Google Wallet and Apple Pay race for second place

Apple has ventured into the market for mobile payments with Apple Pay, but Google's latest deal with wireless carriers could give it more of an edge.




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For mobile wallet players, it's survival of the fittest, not the fastest

Bhavik Vasa, chief growth officer of ItzCash, contends the market opportunity is huge as 85% of the population is still dealing with cash.