By: Michelle Maisto, eWeek
Google Wallet is now more spend-friendly than ever, thanks to new support from Visa, American Express and Discover. The change, complete with cloud-based security, comes as Isis may finally get off the ground. Google’s Wallet app now supports all credit and debit cards from Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover, the Android-maker announced Aug. 1, offering what’s likely to be a boost to the slow-moving mobile payments market. Google rolled out Wallet in the fall of 2011 with support from Citi MasterCard and Google Prepaid cards, which could be funded by other types of credit cards, and the promise that users would eventually be able to use those other cards more directly. That day has finally arrived, thanks to a technical change in the way Google stores card information.
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