Google hooks up with group formerly known as ISIS to battle Apple Pay

Google has inked a major deal with mobile payment alliance Softcard that will see its Google Wallet payments system pre-installed on phones sold by American carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. The carriers will begin shipping the Google Wallet app later this year on mobes running Android 4.4 "KitKat" or higher, according to …

[Anonymous Coward]

Shame about the renaming

As Michael "Hairy Camel" O'Leary would say: all publicity is good publicity. Bit of a missed opportunity there.

Besides, they could have laid claim to large chunks of the Middle East.

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: Shame about the renaming

I think they will be forced to rename themselves to avoid anyone mistakenly thinking they are now linked with Google

[RyokuMas]

E*3

"Google has inked a major deal with mobile payment alliance Softcard that will see its Google Wallet payments system pre-installed on phones sold by US carriers AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon."

Embrace...

[Tom 13]

I used Google Wallet a couple of times 6+ years back.

Never got any of the stuff I ordered with it, couldn't make a claim against them.

So I personally regard Google Wallet as different sort of SuperFish.

As always, YMMV.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I used Google Wallet a couple of times 6+ years back.

that's quite a remarkable feat, especially since google wallet is less than 4 years old...

[Yet Another Anonymous coward]

Re: I used Google Wallet a couple of times 6+ years back.

He bought a used Delorean

[Crazy Operations Guy]

"He bought a used Delorean"

But it's not 1985, they don't sell plutonium in every corner drug store...

[Crazy Operations Guy]

One more middleman

Why do we need yet another middleman just to pay for our goods? So now, we'll have Google taking a fee just to send the work of processing a payment to the credit card provider, who in turn shift the work to the bank; and if its a credit rather than a debit card, push the burden to a massive financial firm.

[KroSha]

I'm almost surprised (but not really) that VISA and MasterCard aren't trying to muscle in on the action.