Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

Your cellphone or your wallet? That’s a question credit card giant MasterCard Worldwide tried to answer in a recent survey of consumers’ attitudes toward using their cellphone to make payments for goods and services. The survey found that 62 percent of respondents who use a mobile phone said they’d be open to the idea of

Google News. Google Maps. Google Docs. And now, Google Wallet? Yes, you read that right. The search engine giant has announced a new service that will turn a cellphone into a “wallet,” allowing consumers to forgo their credit cards and instead tap the phone to pay when they shop at bricks-and-mortar retailers and other merchants. The