Neowin News Feed for: Upi

PayPal's new super payment system makes it easier to pay across borders

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:12:01 +0000

PayPal's new global payment system unlocks wallets from China and India to make cross border payments. Read more...

Apple reportedly in talks to launch its payment service Apple Pay in India

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:26:01 +0000

Apple is reportedly having active discussions with Indian authorities and officials to bring Apple Pay to India. As of now, there is no timeline for the possible launch of the payment service. Read more...

Apple is now accepting App Store payments from UPI, RuPay cards and Netbanking in India

Karthik Mudaliar — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 12:14:01 +0000

Users in India can now pay on the App Store and iTunes by using UPI, Rupay cards, and Net Banking. Previously, only Visa and MasterCard were accepted for the payments of these services. Read more...

Truecaller bug silently signed up Indian users to its own payment service

Boyd Chan — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:34:01 +0000

Thanks to the most recent update released for the Truecaller app, many Indians may have found themselves automatically signed up for Truecaller's own payment service without their permission. Read more...

Google's Tez payments app updated with a chat system

Sharath Ravishankar — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:16:01 +0000

Google has yet again added messaging integration to another of its services, this time in Tez, its India-exclusive payments app, in an attempt to take on WhatsApp's upcoming in-chat payments feature. Read more...

Google has made it easy to set up bill payments in Tez

Paul Hill — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 16:46:01 +0000

Google has added new functionality to the Tez payments app in India which allows users to search for over 90 utility companies in order to quickly and easily get bill payments set up. Read more...

Regulator issues clarification amid WhatsApp payment panic in India

Vishal Laul — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 23:18:01 +0000

WhatsApp's new payment feature has brought concerns of creating "a closed garden" by India's payment market leader Paytm. However, the payments regulator defended WhatsApp stating that this is a beta. Read more...

Payments could land in WhatsApp soon in India [Update]

Paul Hill — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:46:01 +0000

Facebook looks close to launching mobile payments in India via WhatsApp. The messaging platform is a good place for Facebook to incorporate payments because it boasts a huge 200 million users. Read more...

Google Tez mobile payment app rolling out in India

Boyd Chan — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 03:38:44 +0000

After reports late last week, it appears that Google is rolling out Tez, a mobile payment app leveraging India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI) framework with support for three banks. Read more...

Google to reportedly launch a new payments app in India called 'Tez'

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 16:04:01 +0000

Google will reportedly be unveiling its new digital payments system, dubbed Google Tez, on the 18th of September. The system could allow users to transfer money between bank accounts on their mobiles. Read more...

WhatsApp reportedly in talks to integrate with a mobile payment platform

Boyd Chan — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 10:30:01 +0000

With mobile payments attracting major popularity in India, it appears that WhatsApp has been in discussions with the country's government to integrate with one of the emerging local payment systems. Read more...