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Google Wallet, which is only available for Android, provides fast and secure access to all your everyday essentials,” he continued.

Google Pay needs customers to touch to pay with their phones at a point of sale, then verify themselves using a fingerprint, their face, or a Pin, just like rival systems like Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Huawei Pay.

“As Google collaborates with partners to bring these to market, South Africa will get access to event tickets, boarding permits, and store loyalty cards. KLM, United, Air France, and Singapore Airlines are already available to South Africans as international airline partners. We’re attempting to broaden our partner network,” Min Kim stated.

Google users in Africa are increasing exponentially. According to Statcounter, Google takes up 96.55 per cent of all the people using search engines in the continent.

To protect their users against cybercrime, Google has announced that it is buying the prominent cybersecurity firm, Mandiant in a deal that values the business at US$5.4 billion.

The deal is expected to complete late this year, and it comes at a time when the Russian-Ukrainian war has aroused a lot of concerns about the rising cyber threats. Google will acquire Mandiant at US$23 a share to represent a 57 per cent premium to the firm’s share price.

Google has unveiled the list of successful applicants of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Class 7 and they include…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says Africa has the opportunity of exporting technologies to the rest of the world, but a…

Google has unveiled the Google Hustle Academy to train SMEs and entrepreneurs across Africa  The Academy is a practical educational…

Google is investing in Uganda’s SafeBoda from the Africa Investment Fund which was launched by Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google…

Kiva will oversee the disbursement of the low-interest loans to help SMEs Last week Google announced a plan to invest…

The Paris Club (Club de Paris), a group of officials from major creditor countries has approved Kenya’s request for more debt relief to help…

In the midst of the pandemic, Facebook[1] (and partners) announced 2Africa[2] a new subsea cable. About the same time last…