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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2012 file photo, a person tries a smartphone loaded with Google Wallet at the National Retail Federation in New York. Google is teaming up with three major U.S. wireless carriers in an effort to prod more people into using its mobile wallet and undercut the rapid success of Apple's rival payment service. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
FILE – In this Jan. 17, 2012 file photo, a person tries a smartphone loaded with Google Wallet at the National Retail Federation in New York. Google is teaming up with three major U.S. wireless carriers in an effort to prod more people into using its mobile wallet and undercut the rapid success of Apple’s rival payment service. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
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Here s what s going on in tech.

Google is rolling out Android Pay in the United States. Will the company s second try at mobile payments succeed?

California Employment Development Department rules that Uber driver was an employee, not a contractor. Meanwhile, taxi drivers block streets of Sydney and Melbourne in rally against UberX.

Square IPO is coming in the fourth quarter of this year, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources.

Facebook reports 20 percent increase in users in Africa from September 2014 to June 2015, says it has nearly 20 million users in Nigeria and Kenya.

Russia lifts Yahoo ban after company deletes Islamic State video.

Former RadiumOne CEO Gurbaksh Chahal, who pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges, last year, paid lawyer and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown a retainer in hopes that he could make it go away, but it was refunded. Chahal was acting under the recommendation of Steve Westly. (WSJ)

Dell says it will invest $125 billion in China over the next five years.

 

Photo: A person tries a smartphone loaded with Google Wallet at the National Retail Federation in New York on Jan. 17, 2012. Now Google is rolling out Android Pay, its second attempt at mobile payments. (Associated Press)