{"id":138336,"date":"2015-09-11T11:35:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=138336"},"modified":"2015-09-11T11:36:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T09:36:04","slug":"google-launches-android-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/138336-google-launches-android-pay.html","title":{"rendered":"Google launches Android Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has started rolling out Android Pay, its smartphone wallet service.<\/p>\n<p>Android Pay will take a few days to arrive on all compatible devices, and will initially be accepted at more than one million locations across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The service works by storing a user&#8217;s credit, debit, gift, and loyalty card information on their Android device, and makes payment to a merchant from a selected card through NFC (near field communication).<\/p>\n<p>Apple is running a similar service, called Apple Pay.<\/p>\n<p>Android Pay is compatible with NFC-enabled Android devices, running at least KitKat 4.4.<\/p>\n<p>No information on an international roll-out was available at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Android<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/136942-android-wear-devices-now-work-with-iphones.html\">Android Wear devices now work with iPhones<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/136706-pay-for-android-apps-with-telkom-airtime.html\">Pay for Android apps with Telkom airtime<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has started rolling out Android Pay, its smartphone wallet service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":134566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106,17934],"tags":[36,32796,167],"class_list":["post-138336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-android-pay","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138340,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138336\/revisions\/138340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}