# Android Pay Is A Platform, Not A Product That People Will Use In Stores, Like Apple Pay And Samsung Pay

From a long time Google has offered a mobile wallet app for the shoppers to use at the stores using the NFC technology. But the system is unlike Google Wallet and instead is an API layer on Android that is capable of powering the in-app and in-store mobile payments for any Android-based app. For instance, the Google wallet will be powered by the Android pay. 

The Company wants Android Pay to be a thriving platform as it would simplify ways for a lot of people who use their phones to pay.

# Paypal May Not Have "Paypal Pay" But It Just Made A Huge Mobile Payments Acquisition

Reports say that the company Paypal is getting the hold of A startup Paydiant for a whooping sum of $280 million. Paydiant holds the command over Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, and Google Wallet rival, CurrentC.

The CurrentC entering the markets this year is a mobile wallet of a group of major retail players like Wal-Mart, Target, and 7-Eleven. With the Paydiant in the pocket, Paypal enters into the normal store simplifying the payment systems.

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