Easier, cheaper online-payment services will boost e-commerce in the Middle East.
Over the past 18 months the firm has bought nine companies including an online self-publishing site, a financial-data firm and one with a technology that newspapers can license for an online-payment system.
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And as online bill-payment becomes more common, direct transfers out of bank accounts may also be used more widely for other purchases on the Internet.
Its arrival, along with several similar businesses, may spell trouble for banks, which have seen online bill-payment as their chance to secure a leading role in Internet commerce.
His fast-growing business, funded by IDG and Softbank, has more than 500, 000 registered users, with a goal of 1 million by next year--boosted by an escrow-based online payment service in a market where credit cards and bank transfers aren't common.
Last spring it won permission to inspect the records of customers of PayPal, eBay's online payment system, who have bank or payment-card accounts in tax havens.
Then, e-commerce and online payment were unknowns to most Vietnamese.
New York-based 800America.com touted its Web sites, offering everything from online payment services to sales of closed-out merchandise.
In 2012, Southeast Asia leading online games payment provider, MOL AccessPortal, formed an e-commerce payment company, MOLPay.
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Founded in 2007, Rixty is currently the leading cash-based payment system for online entertainment in the United States.
Braintree provides online and mobile payment technology to fast-growing consumer-facing services like OpenTable, Fab.com, Airbnb, Uber, Angry Birds, and Living Social.
In the United States the situation with real-money online gambling is more complicated - the law currently forbids banks and others offering payment processing services to betting services targeted at US citizens.
Those applications now include online payment, video, mapping, e-mail, social networking, search and soon, DoubleClick's behavior-tracking advertising data.
Political pressure has already led credit-card firms and PayPal, an online payment system, to stop customers transferring cash for online wagers.
Start-ups and other financial companies can quickly create FDIC-insured bank accounts, move money online and do payment processing using BancBox.
The Internet-based auction site purchased two online classifieds businesses and the online payment services company Bill Me Later.
An online payment system not unlike PayPal, the company says the plain-sounding-but-ominous-in-a-sci-fi-way Credits will streamline commerce on Facebook (games first), and, with Zuckerberg and Co. taking a 30% cut of every transaction, perhaps fatten the bottom line one day.
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Ziegler previously founded PaySecure, a payment method to secure online purchases, which he sold to Georgia-based Acculynk.
The writers now want a residual payment of 2.5% for re-use of material online and on mobile phones.
By empowering our customers with a safe, efficient, innovative payment solution we're able to ensure every JB Hi-Fi experience online is a satisfying one.
Uswitch calculated figures for the BBC showing the difference between the average standard plans (payment on receipt) and the average online price among suppliers in the UK for dual-fuel gas and electricity bills.
What a global online marketplace operator needs more is reputation management APIs and bitcoin payment modules for a broad range of e-commerce shopping cart platforms.
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Against the backdrop of a strong growth trajectory and relative economic resilience of the online games market, MOL AccessPortal (MOL) announces a strategic investment in a San Francisco-based alternative payment startup, Rixty to further expand its global reach to North and South America.
The online payment service providers and the mobile phone manufacturers (particularly nowadays with smartphones where it is a software-driven market) seem genetically indisposed to interoperability among their services: they are used to working in markets where relentless competition and one-upmanship is what moves the industry forward.
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