Additionally, the only cards you can link to Google Wallet are the Citi MasterCard and Google Prepaid Card.
At commercial launch, Google Wallet will support payments with two payment solutions: a PayPass eligible Citi MasterCard and a virtual Google Prepaid card.
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Funny, Google just launched an Android wallet using Citi Mastercard which allows users to tap their phone to pay anywhere that uses MasterCard PayPass.
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Most people who already have a PayPass eligible Citi MasterCard can simply add it to Google Wallet over the air, using First Data's trusted service manager service.
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Frequent travelers should stick to legacy carriers, because their programs offer more opportunities to earn points through credit cards, such as American Airlines' AAdavantage Citi Mastercard or Delta's Gold Delta SkyMiles American Express.
AboutSteve Faktor is founder of IdeaFaktory innovation incubator, author of Econovation, and ex-innovation and strategy executive at American Express, Citi, MasterCard and Andersen.
Steve Faktor is founder of IdeaFaktory innovation incubator, author of Econovation and ex-innovation and strategy executive at American Express, Citi, MasterCard, and Andersen.
At the event, Google, Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint introduced Google Wallet and invited additional issuing banks, payment networks, mobile carriers, handset manufacturers, point of sale systems companies and merchants to join the initiative.
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To this end, Google Wallet will make it possible to integrate numerous types of partners, and Google, Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint invite the banking community, mobile carriers, handset manufacturers, merchants and others to work with Google Wallet.
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But none of those eleven icons are identified by card name, forcing you to click on links until you happen to run across the Citi Platinum Select MasterCard.
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Unless you want to incur costly finance charges, a 0% credit card is in order, and the best one for holiday shopping is the Citi Dividend World MasterCard.
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If you want to find information on the Citi Platinum Select MasterCard, for example, you first have to choose Citibank from a drop-down menu, and you then see the icons of eleven different Citi cards.
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Companies onstage included Mastercard, Citi, and Sprint, which indicated that Samsung and Motorola, among others, would be putting this capability on their phones.
Google is teaming up with MasterCard and Citi to embed technology in Android mobile devices that would allow consumers to use their smartphones for payments.
Examples of institutions surveyed include American Express, Capital One, Chase, Citi, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa.
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