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Google Helps Homeless Street Vendors Get Paid By Cashless Consumers

An anonymous reader writes Starting today Seattle pedestrians can no longer pat their pockets and claim to have no cash when offered a copy of the ironically-named Real Change weekly newspaper by a homeless street vendor. Google has spent two years working with the Real Change organization to develop a barcode-scanning app which lets passers-by purchase a digital edition with their mobile phones. Google's Meghan Casserly believes the Real Change app — available on Android and iOs — represents the first of its kind in North America.

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  1. RIP CLASSIC GOOGLE MAPS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just sayin