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Google Offers connects you with deals at great places in your city. And sometimes those places are on wheels. We’re joining the food truck craze and kicking it all off in the city where you need a car to do pretty much everything (even cooking): Los Angeles. Enjoy Food Truck Day this Friday, March 23 with offers from some of LA’s most buzzed-about, award-winning food trucks.

Here’s what’s on the menu:

Kogi BBQ: Hailed by Zagat as “the forerunner of all food trucks,” Kogi BBQ, LA’s own traveling landmark, is known for putting Korean barbecue tacos on the map. Corn tortillas, double-caramelized meats, salsa roja, onion-cilantro relish and fresh Asian slaw make up the iconic Kogi taco that has both LA locals and TIME magazine buzzing. Believe the hype: $4 gets you $8 of Korean BBQ tacos.

The Grilled Cheese Truck: These sandwiches “might change your life” according to Zagat. Try their Cheesy Mac ‘n Rib or S’more Melt and it’ll be no surprise why The Grilled Cheese Truck was voted Best Food Truck by LA Times Readers’ Choice. Get in on the grilled goodness: $5 gets you $10 of sandwiches and more.

Grill ‘Em All: Zagat rates Grill ‘Em All as one of LA’s top 10 food trucks—and the competition is stiff. Winner of Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race, this local favorite serves epic, gourmet burgers and (cheese-filled) tator tots while cranking jams from their favorite bands. Get ready to rock ‘n roll: $7 gets you $14 at this hamburger hotspot.

The Buttermilk Truck: For those who believe breakfast shouldn’t be confined to any hour, keep an eye out for The Buttermilk Truck. Zagat declares this “the truck to chase,” but don’t forget to bring your Offer with you. $5 gets you $10 of chicken ‘n waffles, red velvet pancakes, fresh donuts and other breakfast favorites morning, noon, and (late) night.

Frysmith: This innovative food truck knows great things are worth doing twice—like deep-frying your french fries. Here they dole out crisp, twice-fried spuds that are meant to be meals, like the rave-worthy Rajas Fries loaded with steak, onions, chili, and cheese or the sweet potato Vegan Chili Fries. This here is your main course: $5 gets you $10 at Frysmith.

Be sure to subscribe to Google Offers Los Angeles so you don’t miss out on these fantastic offers. Foodies in San Diego and Houston: subscribe to Google Offers San Diego and Google Offers Houston, because Google Offers Food Truck Day will rolling into your cities soon!



Posted by Ellen Shen, Business Analyst, Google Offers

Who doesn't love frozen yogurt? We certainly do and we’re happy to announce that Google Wallet is now accepted at 69 Pinkberry stores across the U.S. You can also use the Pinkberry Featured Offer in Google Wallet to get 10% off any one Pinkberry when you use your Google Wallet to pay. This offer is good for use at select stores until April 30, 2012.*

The popular yogurt retailer now accepts Google Wallet at select stores in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., so now you can buy delicious and refreshing frozen yogurt with your phone. Yum!

To celebrate our partnership with Pinkberry we’ll be holding a free tasting event at several Pinkberry stores in the Los Angeles area. Come by to try out Google Wallet on Tuesday, March 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the following locations:

Santa Monica, 3rd Street Promenade
1456 3rd St
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Phone: (310) 394-4982

Burbank
120 E Palm Ave
Burbank, CA 91502
Phone: (818) 841-1981

Our partner ecosystem continues to grow, so visit our website for up-to-date information on retailers that accept Google Wallet. Google Wallet is available on the Sprint Nexus S.

Posted by Peggy Mangot, Strategic Partnership Management

*This offer is only valid for redemption with Google Wallet via NFC. Not valid on paper or non Google Wallet phones. Single use only and non-transferable. Cannot be combined with other offers. Valid at participating locations in LA, SF, NYC, DC and CHI until April 30, 2012.

Last week we wrote about some recent updates to In-App Payments that help developers monetize their apps in fewer steps, across more countries. In addition to improvements in the in-app payment process, Google is also investing heavily in helping developers create and distribute their games.

For those of you attending GDC at the Moscone Center this week, stop by and see us at our developer days March 5th-6th in Room 2020 and at booth #1901 March 7th-9th on the show floor. If you’re not able to attend the show, check out our new site for game developers where you can learn about the Google tools, technology, and services that can help you build, distribute, promote, and monetize your games.

For even more game developer goodness, check out today’s post on the brand-new Google Developers Blog.

Posted by Arundhati Singh, Product Manager

(Cross-posted on the Google Developers Blog)

As any merchant knows, the easier the path to purchase, the more likely the sale. That’s why the In-App Payments team is dedicated to developing a simple, yet intuitive API that makes the in-app purchase experience effortless for your customers -- leading to a higher conversion rate for you. Over the last few weeks, we’ve made some improvements to the API that we wanted to share:

Additional Currencies Accepted
With the recent international expansion of In-App Payments, we’ve expanded the types of currencies accepted so you can sell your goods in your customer’s native currency. For example, if you’ve set up shop in the United Kingdom but your customer base is mostly in Japan, you can specify prices for your good in Japanese Yen and Google automatically handles currency conversion for you.

As of today, the supported currencies for In-App Payments are:



To use a different buyer currency, just specify the currency code in the JWT request:

   "request" => {
      "name" => "Piece of Cake",
      "description" => "Virtual chocolate cake to fill your virtual tummy",
      "price" => "1000",
      "currencyCode" => "JPY",
      "sellerData" => "user_id:1224245,offer_code:3098576987,affiliate:aksdfbovu9j"
   }





Card Details Minimized
In order to purchase through In-App Payments customers must first create a Google Wallet account, but entering payment information can be cumbersome. So, we’ve cut the amount of information that your customer has to enter when adding a new credit card to their Google Wallet. Now customers in many countries only need to specify their postal code instead of a full address, making the experience of creating or updating a Google Wallet quick and painless.







Terms of Service in Context
We’ve incorporated the Terms of Service into the purchase confirmation page to reduce the number of pages a new Google Wallet user sees before completing a purchase. This means that your new customers can easily review the Terms of Service and get to enjoying their purchases faster.







If you have any questions about Google In-App Payments, please reach out to us in the forum. We’ll also be hosting a regularly scheduled Google+ Hangout the first and third Thursday of every month at 9 a.m. PST to answer any technical questions about implementation of the API or about these new updates.

Stay tuned as we have plenty of new features to be released in 2012. Happy monetizing!

Posted by Peng Ying, Developer Advocate