Google takes on WhatsApp in India with chat option for Tez payments app
Google is adding a chat feature to the Tez person-to-person payments app it launched in India last year. As the Economic Times reports, the feature is rolling out now and lets users send messages related to each transaction. It should be helpful for tracking the context of payments and so on.
So yes, it’s yet another messaging solution from Google. But this time around it’s easy to see why it’s necessary. WhatsApp has just launched its own in-app payments system for India, which has the potential to be a huge deal — the messaging service has over 200 million Indian users, representing the majority of smartphone owners in the country. Paytm, India’s largest mobile payments company, also has more than 200 million users, and added a similar…
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