{"id":657425,"date":"2013-05-10T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=503347"},"modified":"2013-05-10T19:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T23:00:37","slug":"google-abandons-plans-for-physical-credit-card-still-preps-google-wallet-update-for-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657425","title":{"rendered":"Google abandons plans for physical credit card, still preps Google Wallet update for I\/O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/google-wallet-update-rumor\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/google-wallet-bgr.jpeg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Wallet update\" title=\"Google Wallet update\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>A new report suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> will unveil an update to its forgotten <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google-wallet\">Wallet<\/a> service later this month. <a href=\"http:\/\/allthingsd.com\/20130510\/googles-wallet-plans-for-io-cloud-expansion-on-but-longtime-physical-card-plan-scuttled\/\">According to <em>AllThingsD<\/em><\/a>, Google was originally planning to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/11\/07\/google-wallet-card-rumor\/\">introduce a physical credit card<\/a> at its annual I\/O developers event, however it has since decided against it. The company will now reportedly announce new rewards, offers and loyalty points for Wallet users available from a wider selection of merchants to help the service better compete with Apple\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/passbook\">Passbook<\/a>. Google&#8217;s vision of creating a mobile wallet has been hampered by carriers, which have favored <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/22\/isis-mobile-wallet-service-launch\/\">an alternative mobile payment system known as ISIS<\/a>. The lack of NFC-equipped devices and the limited number of compatible merchant sales terminals have also hurt Google&#8217;s efforts. A physical card would have allowed Google to bring its Wallet service to the masses, however CEO Larry Page was said to be displeased with a recent demo and decided to scrap the project.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Tht5F2FS9as\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report suggests that Google will unveil an update to its forgotten Wallet service later this month. According to AllThingsD, Google was originally planning to introduce a physical credit card at its annual I\/O developers event, however it has since decided against it. The company will now reportedly announce new rewards, offers and loyalty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}