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  Google Checkout lands in Oz for Voice service

  The Google Checkout payment gateway has been available in the US for four years, but Australian online shoppers have been denied the service up until the launch of Google Voice, which uses Checkout to add credit to an account.

  By Rodney Gedda | 27 August, 2010 14:10

  Tags: e-commerce, Google, Google Checkout, google voice, payment gateways, Skype

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  Visa's payclick takes on PayPal for micropayments

  Credit card giant Visa has entered the micropayment processing space with payclick, a pre-paid hosted service aimed at teenagers purchasing online line content such as music and games.

  By Rodney Gedda | 24 June, 2010 08:06

  Tags: credit cards, e-commerce, micropayments, payclick, payment gateways, paypal, visa

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  PayPal: Singapore gov't can 'make' mobile e-commerce market

  Unsure that market forces alone can do the job, PayPal is betting Singapore's government can spur the development and adoption of mobile e-commerce applications in the Southeast Asian city-state.

  By Sumner Lemon | 17 June, 2010 04:07

  Tags: mobile commerce, payment gateways, paypal, Singapore

• MasterCard lets iPhone owners send or receive money with app

  Using MasterCard's MoneySend application, iPhone and iPad users will be able to send or receive money using their phone or tablet, the card company said on Thursday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 07 June, 2010 05:31

  Tags: iPad, iphone apps, mastercard, micropayments, mobile commerce, money, payment gateways

• MasterCard to cater to developers with APIs, portal

  MasterCard is launching a program for external developers interested in tapping into some of the credit card giant's internal payment and data services to create applications.

  By Juan Carlos Perez | 26 May, 2010 07:37

  Tags: mastercard, payment gateways

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  Heartland, MasterCard settle over data breach

  Heartland Payment Systems has made a third settlement deal, this time with MasterCard, related to a massive data breach two years ago at the card payments processor.

  By Nancy Gohring | 20 May, 2010 07:37

  Tags: credit cards, data breach, doj, Heartland, mastercard, payment gateways, security

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  PayPal to resume bank withdrawals by Indian exporters

  PayPal said that India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), has allowed it to resume Indian bank withdrawals for Indian businesses who use PayPal to sell their goods or services abroad.

  By John Ribeiro | 01 March, 2010 07:04

  Tags: india, payment gateways, paypal

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  PayPal: India payments suspended for 'at least a few months'

  PayPal said a ban on personal transactions to and from India will continue for "at least a few months" while the online payment service tries to resolve a problem with local regulators.

  By James Niccolai and Robert McMillan | 10 February, 2010 08:40

  Tags: india, payment gateways, paypal

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  PayPal suspends personal payments to India

  PayPal, an eBay company, has suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in the country.

  By John Ribeiro | 09 February, 2010 07:51

  Tags: india, payment gateways, paypal

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  Heartland moves to encrypted payment system

  Responding to its widely reported and massive data breach that took place a year ago, Heartland Payment Systems will be moving to an end-to-end encryption system for payment transactions, according to Chairman and CEO Robert Carr.

  By Joab Jackson | 21 January, 2010 07:01

  Tags: encryption, Heartland, payment gateways

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  Malaysian company acquires Friendster, bets on micropayments

  Social networking site Friendster accepted a buyout offer from Malaysia's MOL Global, which hopes to generate revenue from the site using micropayments.

  By Sumner Lemon | 11 December, 2009 07:04

  Tags: Friendster, mergers & acquistions, micropayments, payment gateways, social networks

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  Money transfers to become hottest mobile app, says Gartner

  Money transfers and payments over mobile phones will be among the top 10 most important mobile applications by 2012, market research company Gartner said on Wednesday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 20 November, 2009 07:04

  Tags: Gartner, mobile commerce, money, Near Field Communications, payment gateways

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  Amazon simplifies payments with new PayPhrase system

  Amazon Payments has introduced a new way to pay at Amazon.com and a number of other web retailers. The service is called PayPhrase and lets users enter a phase and personal identification number to speed up the checkout process, it said on Thursday.

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 30 October, 2009 08:39

  Tags: amazon, Amazon PayPhrase, payment gateways

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  Google plans to offer micropayments service to media owners

  Google is promoting a payments system to the newspaper industry that would let Web surfers pay a small amount for individual news stories, an idea that could help publishers struggling with the impact of the Internet.

  By Jeremy Kirk | 11 September, 2009 05:23

  Tags: advertising, e-commerce, Google, Google Checkout, payment gateways

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  Internet gambling payment processor faces charges

  The operator of several companies that allegedly processed more than US$350 million in illegal Internet gambling payments has been indicted on bank fraud and other offenses, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.

  By Grant Gross | 07 August, 2009 05:56

  Tags: gambling, legal, payment gateways