The two companies said their partnership will help them grow their respective businesses and that they will "cooperate in the areas of user account connectivity, data exchange, online payment and online marketing, among other things".
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Since the company launched the Alpha of Facebook Credits in May of 2009, the company has worked with a small number of developers in rolling out the institution of Credits as the method of payment for online games hosted by Facebook.
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Users can choose to pay from a list of pre-stored cards and shipping addresses kept securely in the digital wallet, removing the need to manually enter payment details as is necessary with most existing online payment systems.
Political pressure has already led credit-card firms and PayPal, an online payment system, to stop customers transferring cash for online wagers.
Software developers will add new capabilities to cards by programming the payment network to link online applications to specific payment events.
Online file cabinet doxo has added a new twist to its online bill payment service to make paying bills online easier.
In the past, most internet transactions required a credit card or an online payment system like PayPal (NASDAQ: EBAY), creating an effective digital paper trail for people engaging in online transactions.
Note, however, that none of this is a surprise to the online payment folks.
Customers are being offered fixed credit on the firm's online payment system, Google Checkout, instead.
Founded in 2007, Rixty is currently the leading cash-based payment system for online entertainment in the United States.
New York-based 800America.com touted its Web sites, offering everything from online payment services to sales of closed-out merchandise.
Those applications now include online payment, video, mapping, e-mail, social networking, search and soon, DoubleClick's behavior-tracking advertising data.
Users are already accustomed to its online payment system for buying goods, which gives an advantage to Amazon.
The Internet-based auction site purchased two online classifieds businesses and the online payment services company Bill Me Later.
It also runs online shopping sites for retail consumers in China as well as an online payment service Alipay.
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Dwolla is an online payment system that directly transfers money between two banks.
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This is a rule designed to bring online payment services into the banking regulatory framework, where it rightly belongs.
WeiboPay is expected to compete with other similar services such as Alipay, a popular online payment tool provided by Alibaba.
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Tencent found this out years ago, and now Alipay and its online payment brethren are going through the same process.
Supposed competitors, such as PayPal's online payment system, in fact offer complementary services rather than threatening to steal business from Visa.
After seeing good quarterly results with its online payment business through PayPal, eBay is focusing on growing its global fashion business.
Take the new reddit Donate model, which is a project of Reddit partners Dwolla and Stripe, both online payment processors.
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We're 72% of C2C market share, and we're the largest online payment.
Google for search marketing, PayPal for online payment, DHL and UPS for delivery, Amazon for cloud computing, and Akami for web content distribution.
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Lu, who joined Alibaba in 2000, was the founding president of its online payment service Alipay and worked in Taobao, the company said.
User identification and online payment options will allow chargers to be made available to all EV drivers or restricted to authorised users only.
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Data from online payment service WePay indicates that charitable causes publicized through Facebook and Twitter do yield increased donations to the relevant campaigns.
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Google already has an online payment mechanism called Checkout that, in theory, it could use to collect payments for social games on its platform.
Unlike online payment services that give people with credit cards easier ways to transact business, Bitcoin works best when avoiding the traditional financial system completely.
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The O2 Wallet is a rival app that allows "money messages" to be sent, and automatically fills in address and payment details for online purchases.
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