The 50-person startup launched in June last year and says it has over 1, 000 direct mobile payment partners and works with major phone carriers worldwide.

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Not only does this strategic move bring new unserved customers into the WordPress fold, it paves the way for the online publishing platform run by parent company Automattic not to be restricted by the choices of its payment partners.

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Extending that concept even further are people, process, physical evidence, packaging, partners and payment.

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The international trading partners of U.S. demanded payment in physical gold instead of dollars.

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Take the new reddit Donate model, which is a project of Reddit partners Dwolla and Stripe, both online payment processors.

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Development of the purpose-built site in Austin was halted last month following a dispute between organizers and Formula One Management (FOM) over payment for the event, but the track's partners confirmed the fee had now been paid to F1's commercial rights holders.

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That is because the payment can be made using any recoveries the Mets owners and business partners, as former investors, were due from the bankruptcy estate.

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Evercore Partners is one of the few investment banks that maintained its dividend payment throughout the financial crisis.

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Conflicts between partners, members, or shareholders arise for a variety of reasons: personality differences, payment of dividends, allegations that a co-owner has converted business assets to personal use, marital divorce, shift in the balance of power and control between younger and older partners, employment discrimination claims and disagreements over the future of the business among others.

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