Google Pay could allow in-store payments
Hence, it could be possible to use funds from peer-to-peer (P2P) payments to cover Google Pay purchases. Consequently, people could use Google Pay to send cash straight to friends or relatives.
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Market Mad House
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
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More Americans watch Streaming Video than Broadcast TV
Streaming video is becoming the favorite entertainment source of American Couch Potatoes. I have to wonder if broadcast TV can survive with just 25% of the market.
Google Pay enters remittance market
A recent upgrade to Google Pay, or GPay, allows users to send peer-to-peer (P2P) payments to individuals but not businesses in other countries. Alphabet plans to add full cross-border remittances to Google Pay.
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2020 is the First YouTube Presidential Election
Hence, the video that destroys Trump or Sanders could already be on YouTube now, and nobody notices it.
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Google’s revenues are declining, should investors worry
I believe consumer brands are moving ads to Amazon because the Everything Store is where Americans do their shopping.
In particular, many consumers look on Amazon first. In fact, 49% of product searches begin on Amazon, CNBC estimates.
Alphabet wants to turn your Car into an Android Device
Alphabet, Fiat Chrysler (NYSE: FCAU), and Samsung are teaming up to add Android Automotive to all Fiat Chrysler vehicles, The Detroit Free-Press reports.
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Uber and Toyota plan Self-Driving Van
Strangely, Uber’s exit from autonomous vehicles will hasten the self-driving car’s arrival. A manufacturer will gain several years of intensive research and vast amounts of data from the ATG.
That research and data will put a company several years ahead of the competition. A company with experience building autonomous vehicles; like Fiat Chrysler; can use that data to create a self-driving car.
Is Waymo Worth $175 billion?
Such valuations definitely justify Waymo’s business plan of providing the operating systems for other companies’ autonomous vehicles. That includes Peterbilt semi-tractors in Atlanta, Chrysler Pacific Minivans in Phoenix, and Jaguar IPaces in Arizona.
A huge advantage is to this plan is that the manufacturing is left to the companies that specialize in it. A great benefit is that Chrysler Fiat (NYSE: FCAU), Tata Motors (NYSE: TTM), and PACCAR (NASDAQ: PCAR) take many of the risks. Tata owns Jaguar and Peterbilt is a PACCAR subsidiary.
Waymo avoids the expense of building a factory and setting up dealerships, and all the trouble of dealing with the United Auto Workers (UAW). Companies with existing factories, supply chains, dealerships and union contracts take the risks.
Google Pay in Germany
Other features in the new and improved Google Pay include access to loyalty cards. The new Google Pay is supposed to be in sync with your Google Account. That should make it easier to add banking and credit card information.
Movie, concert, sports, theater, train, bus, and plane tickets will be accessible through the passes tab in Google Pay. That will enable people to use their Google Account as a digital ticket for travel or entertainment.
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Uber Removed from Google Maps for Android, Uber Drivers Strike
Once again the gig economy sounds like a recipe for labor unrest rather than a high-tech utopia. Companies like Uber will have to recognize unions and start bargaining with them sooner or later – if they want to survive.
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