Google Pay widens digital features, products: Here're key announcements

Digital payments are top on Google India's priority list, if one goes by the announcements here on Thursday at its annual event.

At the 'Google for India' fixture, Google Pay, the technology giant's payments platform, launched a host of features and products aimed at getting more businesses and people on the platform.

It launched a 'Google Pay for Business', a separate app for merchants and businesses to enable digital payments through remote verification and registration, that can be done “in minutes”.

A demonstration featured a video-based know-your-customer process through Google Duo, its video calling app. With a voice-based assistant taking a shopkeeper through