Google Pay

Why are we seeing the name Google Pay everywhere even though the app isn’t available in our country? Let’s try to go through Google Pay’s puzzling naming scheme over the year and clear our misconceptions. Google Checkout Google first entered the online payment sphere with Google Checkout, which was launched on June 28, 2006.1 It was an online payment processing service that worked exclusively for websites. Android Pay Later, on September 19, 2011, they released an Android app called Google Wallet, which integrated the functionalities of Google Checkout with NFC for mobile payments.2 Initially, it only supported Citibank’s Mastercards within the US and even had an optional physical card that could be used as a general-purpose debit card.3 ...