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Google For India 2019 Highlights: Google Pay for Business, Spot Platform, tokenised cards and more announced

Google For India 2019 will cover all the updates coming to Google' services and products in India

Tech2 News Staff|Sep 19, 2019, 12:53:35 IST

Google India hosted its fifth Google For India event where it talked about everything the company has been doing in India. This covered all its products and services including Google Pay, Lens, Assistant, some of which have exclusive features in India. The speakers included General Manager of Payments and Vice President Caesar Sengupta, Vice President of Product, Google Assistant, Manuel Bronstein, Director of Marketing Southeast Asia and India Sapna Chadha and more from the product teams.[caption id="attachment_4168237" align="alignnone" width="1280"]

Google is expected to announce updates to its services and products in India. Image: Reuters.[/caption]At the Google For India 2018 event, the company had announced several updates to the search giant's apps and services in India. Google Tez, the company's UPI-based payments app, was renamed to Google Pay. More features are set to arrive in India including card payments, according to an Indian Express interview with Google's VP for payments, Caesar Sengupta. Google Pay could be integrated into other Google products such as Mail and Messages.

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