Google to buy Japan payment startup for $182 million-plus – Nikkei

By Metro US Posted on July 8, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured outside a Google office

FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California

TOKYO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is set to buy Japanese smartphone payment startup Pring for more than 20 billion yen ($181.9 million), the Nikkei financial daily reported on Thursday.

(Reporting by Tokyo Newsroom; Editing by David Goodman)

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