元器件交易网讯  4月4日消息，据外媒报道，谷歌钱包产品管理总监皮特·哈泽赫斯特(Peter Hazlehurst)离开谷歌的移动支付业务。

　　哈泽赫斯特是周一离职的。他2011年进入谷歌，2012年成为谷歌钱包一员。他下一步可能会退出支付业务，开创自己的公司。他拒绝透露更多情况。谷歌钱包允许用户保存信用卡、借记卡、优惠券和会员卡于单一的数字账户，进行网上支付，在一些商店购物不必每次都输入个人信息。

　　哈泽赫斯特是在菲利普·道曼(Philippe Dauman Jr.)离开后不久辞职的，菲利普曾在谷歌担任谷歌钱包合作关系主管，之后去了Twitter。

　　另外两个谷歌高管乔纳森·瓦尔和马克芬尼根弗雷德去年成立一家初创公司。前谷歌钱包副总裁奥萨马.比迪(Osama Bedier)于2013年5月离职。

　　分析师认为移动支付正快速增长，是一块肥沃的市场。Gartner分析师称，全球使用移动支付交易额将在一年内攀升35%，2012年至2017年将达到7210亿美元，用户超过4.5亿。

　　Aite集团分析师Rick Oglesby表示“机会是巨大的，所以它们任何时候都不会放弃，但是该公司还是习惯于纯粹的网络世界，你可以展示产品。他们可能采纳或者不采纳，所以他们尝试各种不同的东西，直到发现可以采纳的东西，这就意味着经常换掌门人会带来新的想法。”

　　（元器件交易网董蕾 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Peter Hazlehurst, director of product management at Google Wallet, has left the Internet company, the latest executive departure from Google’s mobile-payments business.

　　Hazlehurst’s last day was Monday. He had been at Google since 2011 and in the Google Wallet role since 2012. He said his next move will likely be outside the payments business and will take him into the start-up world. He declined to be more specific.

　　Google Wallet lets users store credit, debit cards, loyalty and gift cards in a single digital account and use that to pay online and in some stores without having to enter personal information each time.

　　It began in 2011 as a typically ambitious Google effort to help people along their path to purchase – from the initial search for a product to the final purchase either online or in stores. In-store payment via smartphones has yet to catch on with lots of consumers, but Google Wallet has had more success handling payments in Google’s mobile-app store Google Play and with a fast-checkout service for merchant websites and apps called Instant Buy.

　　Competition is stiff: Apple, Amazon and eBay’s PayPal have or are considering mobile-payment services. So do hundreds of startups, including Square, Stripe and Affirm. AngelList, an online platform for entrepreneurs and early-stage investors, lists 636 mobile-payments startups. Carriers AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon started their own mobile wallet called Isis. Wal-Mart and other big retailers formed their own version called MCX and Visa and MasterCard came up with mobile wallets too.

　　“It’s a significant loss,” said Rick Oglesby, an independent payments industry analyst at AZ Payments. He said Hazlehurst had helped steer Google Wallet on a “better path,” adding, “there’s been some good thinking coming out of that group.”

　　Last year, Google integrated Google Wallet with Gmail so users can send each other money from their email accounts.

　　Hazlehurst’s departure comes soon after Philippe Dauman Jr., business development lead for Google Wallet’s Instant Buy service, left to join Twitter.

　　Two other Google Wallet executives, Jonathan Wall and Marc Freed-Finnegan, formed their own start-up called Index last year. Osama Bedier, the former head of Google Wallet, left in May 2013.

　　Ariel Bardin, vice president of payments at Google, took the reins of Google Wallet after Bedier left.

　　“We’re excited to have a great team focused on making Google Wallet a great experience for everyone,” a Google spokeswoman said. She declined to comment further.

　　Analysts view mobile payments as a fast-growing and potentially rich market. The world-wide value of transactions using mobile payments will jump 35% a year between 2012 and 2017 to $721 billion, with more than 450 million users by 2017, according to research firm Gartner.

　　“The opportunity is huge for them so they won’t be giving up anytime soon, but the company is also accustomed to a purely online world where you can push products out and they either take or they don’t,” Oglesby added. “So they try a variety of different things until something does take, and that often does mean switching up the people at the helm to bring in new ideas.”