Google's new play to pay

Can a more social approach to payments help Google break through?

The new Google Pay app (Google)

Today let’s talk about money — the original social network! — and whether an ambitious new app from Google can succeed.

Once they reach a certain size, many companies decide that they would like to be a bank. That’s where the money is, as one notorious robber once (possibly) said. And so you see often the big tech platform…