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(Cross-posted on the Places, Retail, Small Business, and Official Google Blogs)

Portlanders know how to mix the urban (killer coffee, music and art) and the small-town (easy walking, biking and socializing). There’s no end to the city’s great restaurants, coffee shops, hot spots and places to explore. That’s why, when we started planning the Google Offers beta, we knew Portland was the ideal place to get it all kicked off.

Today, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt and VP of Commerce Stephanie Tilenius announced at the D9 Conference that we’re launching Google Offers beta in Portland, Ore. tomorrow.

Our first Google Offer will be from beloved local java shop Floyd’s Coffee. Husband-and-wife team Jack Inglis and Cris Chapman opened Floyd’s seven years ago, offering up espresso, coffee, breakfast burritos and more. They now have two convenient locations—one cozy, brick-lined shop in Old Town and another Stumptown watering-hole in Buckman.


With Google Offers, we’re working with great local businesses like Floyd’s Coffee, Le Bistro Montage, Powell’s Books and Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade to help them reach more Portlanders. We hope to bring Google Offers to other cities soon, with New York City and the San Francisco Bay area as our next stops.

You can learn more about Google Offers and sign up at google.com/offers. If you’re a business interested in participating in Google Offers, you can let us know too. Finally, if you’re at the Portland Rose Festival this Saturday, visit our Google booth at CityFair to say hello to our team and learn more about Google Offers.

Posted by Kyle Harrison, Product Manager, Google Offers

(cross-posted to Official Google Blog and Google Mobile Blog)



Today in our New York City office, along with Citi, MasterCard, First Data and Sprint, we gave a demo of Google Wallet, an app that will make your phone your wallet. You’ll be able to tap, pay and save using your phone and near field communication (NFC). We’re field testing Google Wallet now and plan to release it soon.

Today we’re launching the Google Commerce Blog to bring you news, trends and ideas about shopping, retailing and payments from across Google and beyond.

Google commerce products help buyers easily find the things they're looking for no matter where they are. They also help retailers attract and retain customers. For example, retailers can list their items for free in Google Product Search and reach buyers right when they’re searching for that product. Google Shopper, Google Maps, Google Places and Boutiques.com aim to make savvy shopping easier and faster. And with Google Checkout, you can buy online quickly, safely and conveniently.

Commerce isn’t just about physical goods. Content providers like newspaper, book and magazine publishers and game developers can also sell their digital wares with a single sign-on using Google One Pass, In-App Payments or Google eBooks. Readers and players can access their paid content from any device, on the desktop, tablet, or mobile phones because it is stored in the cloud.

To share updates about these products and more, and to help developers better monetize their businesses, we recently hosted the first Commerce track at Google I/O featuring sessions from five commerce product areas. We want to keep that conversation going, and give you a window into what's new year-round.

Follow this blog for ways to make shopping, buying and selling in-the-cloud and on-the-go better.

Posted by Stephanie Tilenius, Vice President of Commerce