Tez was a mobile payments service by Google, targeted at users in India. It was rebranded to Google Pay. Launched September 19, 2017; shut down August 28, 2018 — it lived 11 months. One of 15 Google products killed in 2018. Tez was a mobile payments service by Google, targeted at users in India, later folded into the new Google Pay app on 28 August 2018. It operated atop the Unified Payments Interface, developed by the National Payments Corporation of India. The product was created as part of Google's Next Billion Users initiative led by Caesar Sengupta, former vice president and general manager, Payments & Next Billion Users, Google. Wiki link Data: Killed by Google (killedbygoogle.com, MIT).