Purchases could be paid for with Facebook Credits, the virtual currency payment system Facebook introduced in 2009, added Serbinis.
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Facebook continues to bring order to the wild and woolly landscape of virtual currencies and payment systems on its social network.
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Since Skrill has country-speicfic payment options from bank transfer to debit cards to mobile payments and pre-paid cards, users are much more likely to buy virtual goods when they see a local payment option they know.
All of the other device and payment companies emerging with their own virtual wallet products, which should happen in about 5 minutes.
Facebook takes a 30% cut of sales of virtual goods, which are bought using its Credits payment system.
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Since October MOL and Friendster have had a strategic partnership in which MOL agreed to provide a variety of payment services to Friendster users, including a virtual wallet and fraud management services.
Virtual accounts need to be funded either via credit transfer, payment card or PayPal and therefore a possibility would be to request this information from credit institutions, card schemes and PayPal.
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Recently, Amex has continued to make moves in the social media space into gaming, the company acquired the virtual currency company Sometrix in hopes of integrating their Serve mobile payment system into the payment path of the 450 games in over 200 countries that Sometrics supports.
At commercial launch, Google Wallet will support payments with two payment solutions: a PayPass eligible Citi MasterCard and a virtual Google Prepaid card.
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Similar to merchant processors for credit and debit cards, BitPay is a Payment Service Provider (PSP) specializing in eCommerce, B2B, and enterprise solutions for virtual currencies.
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