HomeAway recently launched a new payment platform, Reservation Manager, that is in some ways similar to PayPal.
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The IDC report said it expects that NFC will become the most-popular payment platform, followed by point-of-sale payments.
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PayPal is a global payment platform operated by eBay that enables secure, easy, quick, and cost-effective transfer of payments online.
My money is on NFC paired with a robust payment platform, and maybe a partnership or two thrown in for good measure.
But Firefox OS isn't the last stop for the payment platform, as it'll be headed to the desktop browser and Firefox for Android soon.
"As the largest retail mobile payment platform in the U.S., we're excited and proud to accept payments with Square, " said Howard Schultz, Starbucks chairman, president and ceo.
Mozilla's fledgling Firefox OS has yet to seed out to actual consumers, but when it does an "easy and secure" payment platform should be in place.
Zynga is almost six years old but Facebook is still its primary distribution, marketing, promotion and payment platform for online games like Farmville, Zynga Poker, Mafia Wars and Words with Friends.
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Google Wallet is the first mobile payments service to really show promise in adding capabilities like the above on top of a base payment platform by bringing their ecosystem of local services like Google Places and Offers into the fold.
This represents 19% of global e-Commerce and just 2% of global commerce, leaving generous room for upside. eBay itself is becoming a formidable third-party reseller or marketplace ala Amazon in its own right. eBay has moved beyond a person-to-person auction site to become a formidable marketplace and mobile payment platform. eBay has appreciated from its IPO over 7, 000%.
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We will utilize our success and experience with our US payment solutions platform to grow our European presence.
American Express and Verizon Wireless today announced they will integrate Serve, a next-generation digital payment and commerce platform, on many Verizon mobile phones and tablets.
Every Internet conglomerate ( Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, Sohu, Sina, Shanda) has a search engine, 3rd party payment team, gaming, e-commerce platform, literature platform, etc.
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Safaricom also pioneered a service which offers subscribers airtime on credit, introduced the payment of utility bills through the M-Pesa platform and also runs a robust customer loyalty award programe.
Using a platform developed by e-commerce and payment processing First Data in use by Cold Stone and other food service companies, the eGift takes the concept of the virtual gift and brings it back to reality.
However, as Zynga gains scale, we expect it to move to its own payment infrastructure and capture a greater portion of online gaming spend on its own platform, which could boost its overall revenue significantly.
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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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For any drugs that are produced on the GlycoFi platform and make it to the market, Merck will be paying GlycoFi an annual royalty payment on the sales of each of those drugs.
Google already has an online payment mechanism called Checkout that, in theory, it could use to collect payments for social games on its platform.
Businesses are being launched on the mobile platform to provide a wide range of services from medical advice and diagnosis, to pharmaceutical authentication, to payment and finance systems.
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