Google launches new tools for easier travel planning

Google launches new tools for easier travel planning

Google is continuing to add to the number of tools it offers to travellers in a bid to be at the centre of all aspects of the trips that people make. Now, when people search for travel destinations on Google, the search engine will surface things to do in the destination, day plans, or travel […]

PayPal, Google team up to let users pay through Gmail and YouTube

PayPal, Google team up to let users pay through Gmail and YouTube

Over the past few months, the combination of Google and PayPal have become a go-to service whenever you’re paying for something. Buying something in a store? You can use PayPal via Google Pay. Owe your friends money? You can use Venmo (which is owned by PayPal). Paying for Google services? That’s PayPal territory, too. As […]

Mobile Has Largely Displaced Other Channels for Email

Mobile Has Largely Displaced Other Channels for Email

The world of email marketing has changed pretty significantly over the past five years. Where desktop clients like Outlook were once a more important delivery medium, readers of email are now in the thrall of mobile clients and webmail services like Gmail. In fact, new research from Return Path found that more than half of emails worldwide […]

Google uses I/O to unveil app promotion tools to Apple developers

Google uses I/O to unveil app promotion tools to Apple developers

Google has opened this year’s I/O conference by unveiled the latest additions to its Universal App Campaigns offering, including the extension of the service to Apple developers, plus tools to help them find high value customers. The Universal App Campaigns suite is expanding beyond Android to help developers grow their iOS apps, meaning all app […]

Google Trials Tourism App Trips with Trusted Travellers

Google Trials Tourism App Trips with Trusted Travellers

Google has launched a limited beta of Google Trips, a travel assistant app. Trips auto-populates with destination information based on the user’s bookings. It combines a traditional ‘where to go/what to eat’ travel guide along with flight and hotel details lifted from Gmail. The app looks like an extension of the Destination mobile search product Google launched last […]