A new Google Wallet feature allows users to email money as an attachment. Announced at Wednesday's Google I/O Developers conference, the latest addition to the search company's virtual wallet service will make sending money as easy as a word document or PDF and is set to roll out over "the coming months." Available initially to US Google Wallet users aged 18 and over, the system works by clicking on the dollar sign button that will soon appear in Gmail and then typing in the amount to attach.

TORONTO - Google Maps is getting a radical new revamp, which users can sign up for today. "It's a whole new concept," said Bernhard Seefeld, product management director for Google Maps. "We believe this is really the biggest change to Google Maps since Google Maps originally launched" in 2005.

ORLANDO, Fla. - BlackBerry (TSX:BB) says it will be able to make money off its BlackBerry Messenger service by opening it up to its rivals' smartphones. One of the Waterloo, Ont.-based company's top developers said Wednesday that while BBM will be available to users on Apple's iPhone and Android operating systems for free, there are other ways to generate revenue. "By opening it up to other platforms we're really listening to what our users have asked for," said Andrew Bocking, executive vice-president of software product management at BlackBerry.

(Reuters) - Tencent Holdings more than tripled the number of active users for its mobile chat application in the first quarter, a boon to China's largest online gaming and social networking firm as it tries to diversify its revenue stream. Tencent, which is hoping to monetize its Weixin, or WeChat, app, said on Wednesday active user numbers soared 228 percent to 194 million in the quarter that ended March 31. Weixin is similar to WhatsApp, Line or KakaoTalk, apps that allow users to swap messages, stickers, voice messages over a data connection.