Google For India 2019 LIVE Updates: Google Pay, formerly known as Tez, to be a focus at today’s event

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12:36 (IST)

12:25 (IST)

Google announces new Jobs feature inside Google Pay

The new section will allow potential employees to search for entry-level jobs within Google Pay. Interested users can add their job preference and then search for the relevant ones. Google is working with several local companies. It’s starting off in the Delhi-NCR region and will be expanding to other locations soon.

12:16 (IST)

The Spot Platform for Google Pay announced

Merchants and business owners can create curated experiences to display their services and products. This will enable them not to depend on websites or apps to showcase their products. It also has Spot Codes that will make it easier to open these custom experience pages and buy the products.

12:12 (IST)

Google Pay for Business announced

Merchants can download the app from the Play Store. They will have to verify themselves first to be registered on the service. 

12:06 (IST)

Tokenised cards coming to India

Google is bringing tokenised cards to India that will make payments easier for offline as well as online transactions. It will start rolling out in the next week.

12:03 (IST)

Growth of Google Pay

Google Pay now has 67 million monthly active users and $110 billion in transactions in 2019.

12:01 (IST)

Phone Line with Google Assistant

If you don’t have an internet connection, you can dial into 000 800 9191 000 to ask any query to Google Assistant.

11:59 (IST)

Phone Line with Google Assistant

Users without internet data can dial into Phone Line with Google Assistant in collaboration of Vodafone-Idea, free of charge, to use the services of Assistant. They can ask any kind of questions and queries, just like you’d use with an internet connection.

11:55 (IST)

Google collaborating with local partners

Google India is partnering with local services so that other apps can be invoked using Google Assistant.

11:51 (IST)

Next up is Google Assistant

Hindi is the second most commonly-used used language on Google Assistant.

11:50 (IST)

Google Bolo coming in more Indian languages

11:43 (IST)

Update to Google Lens in Indian-context

Google Lens has been given an update to translate more Indian languages. Just by pointing the camera to any signboard with any language, Google Lens will be able to translate the text on-the-fly.

11:39 (IST)

Google For India 2019

Google is announcing all the updates coming to its services and products in India.

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