United’s “hidden” award chart for 2024, a billionaire is furious about expensive room service at a five start hotel and what to do when Google Pay shuts down. All that and more in this week’s Saturday Selection, our weekly round-up of interesting tidbits from around the interwebs (links to each article are embedded in the titles).
Google Pay will shut down in June
Google Pay is going away. Last week, Google announced that its mobile wallet counterpart to Apple Pay will be ending on June 4th, in an effort to “simplify our payment apps.” Instead, the tech giant will be moving all payment method storage and tap-to-pay functions to Google Wallet. Once that happens, Google Pay will no longer be functional for peer-to-peer payments or cash-back deals and all balance transfers will have to be made via the Google Pay website. It’s sort of unclear what will happen with the app after June 4th. It sounds like it will still be around in a kind of zombie state, where…
