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Ever wonder about the confluence of Steve's / Stephen's and mobiles?

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Why do all the Americans get the good Finnish companies? Wonder why NOKIA let's these gems get away http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/daily-brief/2011/03/03/disney-purchases-game-tool-maker-rocket-pack-in-end-run-around-app-store-costs" Then again, NOKIA may be American-owned pretty soon.

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Bo Ilsoe and Team place a smart bet

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If your skilled in the art of designing and architecting payment networks, PG invites you to join PAYMENTGUYS (& PAYMENTGIRLS). This is a group of payment specialists who like to do freelance payment gigs. Preferably you are a skilled developer and/or have some formal training in architecture and are for example TOGAF certified. But experience, interest and passion are what is most important.

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NYTimes talks about some pending NFC payment initiatives

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Great prepaid concept here; "New Zealand gift card company Ezi-Pay has teamed up with the largest United States gift card provider, inComm, to launch a card that allows anyone to give online gaming as a gift." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10691901

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Seems the Linden Management is going to offer virtual gambing with an Israeli company 888 http://dwellonit.taterunino.net/2010/12/08/linden-lab-has-plans-to-relent-on-gambling-ban-in-second-life-in-2011/. Well, about time they reversed this stupid decision from 2 years ago. This could actuallly save Linden's ass and the sooner they offer 3D poker and sports betting for punters - the better!

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.. with only HABBO Hotel and Bobba. As Finnish Business mag Kauppalehti analyses, Sulake must erase over 20 million euros of accumulated losses for the HABBO portfolio to grow to cumulative profit http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/yritykset/yritysuutiset/?oid=20100916945. Sulake needs to change its management and partner with a social network, or create its own kiddie social network with its

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Looking for some High End Payment Devs? Then check out these ex-Lindens who have formed Singing Horse Studios http://singinghorsestudio.com/. Serious, experienced and good enough to make sure you don't look like a ....

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PG agrees with Ollie that the main things this new startup has goig is "unlike its current competitors, its technology enables extremely small payments ranging from only few cents to some ten cents by managing to reduce the share of various payment fees substantially." And they have good browser integration for account management. Let's see if APE can turn into an 800 lb gorilla. Article here

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... said Risto Siilasmaa, a Nokia board member who founded software company F-Secure Oyj as an engineering student. “But we should definitely get 10 or 100 F-Secures and a lot of Angry Birds and APE Payments.” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-28/-angry-birds-spread-wings-as-finland-searches-for-nokia-2-0.html Sure Risto, Angry Birds is the big thing at the moment. But APE Payments? PG

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What a revealing and heart warming story by Helsingen Sanomat on Liisa Wrang - the rags-to-riches story behind Stardoll . You Go Girl! http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Liisa+Wrang+-+the+rags-to-riches+story+behind+Stardoll/1135262186716

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Google buys virtual currencies startup Jamboolvia Beyond Money by Thomas H. Greco on 8/18/10SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – – Virtual currency manager Jambool announced Monday that it has been purchased by Google for an undisclosed sum.“When the opportunity arose to join forces with Google… we couldn’t pass it up,” Vikas Gupta and Reza Hussein, co-founders of the startup, said in a blog post.Jambool is the

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Facebook, which more than any other company aspires to usurp Google’s dominant place on the Internet, hopes to avoid that problem. Already on the path to becoming an advertising powerhouse, the social networking company is laying the groundwork for its second act: a virtual currency system that some day could turn into a multibillion-dollar business. Facebook began testing its virtual currency,

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Wonder if his tricks from Linden Lab and that Korean virtual cat world (forget the name ... (ok just came to me GOPETS ...) still work? Good Luck http://www.imvu.com/about/management.phpPS PG: Is it Im-View or I-M-V-U?PG PPS: Wish these guys would reunite - ASAP!

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... at your service! GMAIL ................... PAYMENTGUY@GMAIL.COM

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PG is TOGAF Certified (got 95% on the tests ;). So if you want the best payment architecture possible GMAIL PAYMENTGUY@GMAIL.COM.What the hell is TOGAF???? Check www.opengroup.org/togaf (sounds like an Eastern European meat dish ... I know ...Is certification in this crap worthwhile??? (yes - actually) http://www.trainingpressreleases.com/newsstory.asp?NewsID=5432

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From http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Up+to+10000+virtual+objects+stolen+from+Habbo+Hotel/1135257271195 "Thieves believed to be between 16 and 19 years oldThe Habbo Hotel, a virtual online world favoured by many Finnish schoolchildren and young people, may have had up to 10,000 virtual objects stolen from it. Police suspect that several people in a number of communities have been involved with

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Haha http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/business/media/13penguin.html?hpw

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Yup, the big kiddie virtual worlds, Sulake, Penguin, Webkinz, Neopets are being hit hard. Some of the reasons; 1. The economic downturn has figured prominently;2. The fickle nature of children’s entertainment;3. An oversaturation of virtual worlds aimed at youths;4. Competition from new smartphone games;5. Competition from social networking sites.Webkinz.com, where children care for stuffed

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David Fleck, the little recognized and successful driver of Second Life's early growth has a new gig as VP Marketing & Business Development at Wildpockets.com. Looks interesting. Good luck man ...

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Ginsu Yoon is back ... Linden Lab's Former Mr. Everything (General Counsel, CFO, VP Business Development, VP New Market Development, etc... etc...) has a brand new Gig in stealth mode called Bynamite. Will Bynamite be Dynamite? Or crash and burn? Stay tuned... in the meantime email for a prelaunch invite to the venture here http://www.bynamite.com/

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NOT!Paul Thind and his Team at Triggerspot actually has an extensive track record in this space and really add value http://triggerspot.com. So look him up and drop him a line: TRIGGERSPOT, INC.Paul Thind, LeaderSan Francisco, CA 94123Tel: +1 (510) 589 6944E-mail: paul@triggerspot.comhttp://www.triggerspot.com

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There.com is closing March 9th http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2010/03/04/makena-shutter-online-virtual-world-therecomExpect a lot more of these announcements. Or rather, just virtual worlds quietly fading away as devs and managers and founders go off to play around with the Facebook platform. Way too many virtual worlds out there. And way too many payment companies targeted at this space.

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Thanks, but I still do not know what the heck this site is all about; Hello,This is Shiela from homefurnituredepot.net.We stumbled on your blog page and found it interesting! We operate the largest Home Furniture & Office Furniture website featuring more than 30,000 blogs. Our site averages 200,000 unique visitors per month. As a kind note We have featured your blog at http://

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Payment Architect Wanted (and you get to live in Austin!) http://jobview.monster.com/Lead-Mobile-Banking-Payment-Architect-Job-San-Antoino-TX-US-85819969.aspxShare our pride. Join our mission.As a Fortune 200 financial services company with more than $113.5 billion in owned and managed assets, USAA is on a mission — to facilitate the financial security of our members, the men and women of the U.S

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"Subscribers in seven developed countries spanning three continents express scant interest in person-to-person mobile payments according to a new survey issued by ABI Research. Consumer in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea all indicate little enthusiasm for the possibilities of making mobile-to-mobile payments--while ABI reports some differences between age groups

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LONDON (Reuters) - A UK payments firm is applying for a banking licence to provide a full range of bank services to businesses, joining a growing list of firms targeting the area as the industry reshapes after the financial crisis. Voice Commerce Group, an unlisted payments firm that is interested in buying bigger rival RBS WorldPay, said on Monday it had appointed law firm Mills & Reeve to get

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Another 3rd rate technology - compared to SL Enterprise or Nortel's system (named Project Chainsaw - stupid!;) for example. But at least Forterra was early in the virtual worlds for enterprise game. "SAIC, government contractor to groups like the Department of Defense and Homeland Security, has just purchased Forterra System’s On-Live Interactive Virtual Environment product known as OLIVE. In

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This was going no where anyway - smart move Larry. "Oracle decided to pull the plug yesterday on Project Darkstar, a Sun Microsystems project aimed at creating the backend infrastructure for virtual worlds. It was the labor of love of Chris Melissinos, the chief gaming officer at Sun who announced on his Facebook page that he was leaving Sun after 16 years. http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/04/

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Facebook will now accept payments for goods and services via the Paypal online payment system, in a move aimed at making transactions easier for small business owners worldwide. Under the new partnership, Facebook will allow companies and individuals to buy advertising for the site via the Paypal transaction system. Unlike regular e-commerce sites, Ebay-owned Paypal allows users to fund a

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Why are there no viable competitors to Paypal? Thanks to Andrej T for the tip "We’re pleased to announce that PayPal has completed the acquisition of VeriSign Payment Services*....https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Marketing/general/VerisignAcquisition-outside

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Good look at virtual goods and virtual islands by Forbes; BURLINGAME, Calif. -- What is the most you're willing to pay for a virtual item in a videogame or virtual world? Five, ten dollars? How about $26,500? That's the amount David Storey, a 27-year-old graduate student living in Sydney, Australia, paid for a virtual island, the "Most valuable object that is virtual," according to Guinness

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From NYT "Buy Now, Pay Later (Maybe With Your Allowance)"BUSINESSES don’t let 13-year-olds pay for purchases with a promise. At least they didn’t before last week.Sites like FooPets let minors buy virtual merchandise like pet food if they agree to pay later. A new payment option for anyone without a credit card or a debit card, no matter how young, has just become available. It’s initially

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Juha Hynynen the former COO, CFO and Deputy CEO has left Sulake and the management team has 2 "new" additions being Phil Guest (new to the Management) and Sampo Karjalainen (one of the Genius Co-Founders who used to sit on the Management) http://www.sulake.com/company/management?navi=1.3 . This reshuffle comes at a time of bad news for Sulake and its portfolio of games, social networks and

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One of the things most vexing and costly concepts for new businesses are “chargebacks”. Chargebacks are when a customer’s banks forcibly requests a return of funds. In a nutshell, its when bank is the one asking for a refund vs. a customer to business transaction. What’s the big deal about this? Well, it’s a bad thing for multiple reasons. Each Chargeback returns the amount that was transacted

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From TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/19/recurly-public-beta/; Back in mid-November, we wrote about a new startup called Recurly which aimed to help other startups alleviate the pain of implementing subscription-based payment systems for their products. Since that time, Recurly has accepted 172 companies into their private beta, and feel comfortable enough handling that load that they

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CauseWorld is a mobile application that lets you help the world while you shop! This is the easiest way to give back to your community, and its entrance in the mobile app market is perfect timing for the holidays. Best of all, in these tough economic times, it costs you nothing – our generous sponsors pick up the donation bill. All you need to do is walk into one of the many stores you most

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http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/131508 Interesting but back from 9.09

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Wonder how long he will last? From VWN; http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2010/01/linden-lab-names-bob-komin-cfo.html Linden Lab announced today that it has appointed Bob Komin as its new Chief Financial Officer. Komin will be stepping into the shoes left empty when former CFO John Zdanowski announced that he would be leaving the developer of Second Life last March. At the time Zdanowski said the

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This is old news but interesting for those who missed it ... apparently the EBAY / PayPal CEO guy was forced out because "he was too focused on making money". http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Geoff_Iddison"Iddison resigned from Jagex in January 2009[4], for unspecified reasons. Based on the ambiguity about exactly when he joined Jagex, he worked for the company for 15 to 17 months, though Andrew

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UK-based Jagex, developer of the popular free-to-play MMORPG RuneScape, is publishing a third-party developed title for the first time in its history, according to a report in the Cambridge News. "With the strongest pipeline of new games and updates in our history, we're on track to cement our position as one of the fastest growing games companies in the world," commented Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard,

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By Mike Snider, USA TODAY A few virtual weapons here, a few avatar outfits there, and pretty soon you're talking about real — not virtual — money. Having first appeared in free-to-play online games in China and Southeast Asia, virtual goods and game enhancements paid for in small purchases called microtransactions have become a billion-dollar boon for U.S. online game publishers. The newest

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704081704574653430020773954.html?mod=WSJ_PersonalTechnology_LEFTTopShanda buys a game studio ...

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... this guy is one: http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2010/01/arkadium-hires-dan-hart.html Vested in both casual gaming and advergaming, Arkadium today said it had hired Dan Hart to be its new Chief Revenue Officer. In his new role, Hart will build upon monetization strategies introduced by the company in 2009 designed to build the company's client base, game library, and development expertise.

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So they have 50k registered users ... maybe this tag line a little misleading - no? http://www.wiglingtonandwenks.com/

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Or will they die? A mill goes pretty damn quick these days ... check http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/10/30/finnish-startup-fruugo-avoids-meltdown-with-approx-e1-million-in-bridge-funding/Fruugo CEO Juha Usva recently told press that the company’s financial situation was ‘tight’ and that they were having more trouble finding capital because of the recession than anticipated.This is what Usva just

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Paavo Perttula formerly of Valve was behind this new virtual world called Eco Rangers . Checking in it seems their last public communication was way back in May 2009 http://www.tweehouse.com/blog/ Does this mean the venture is kaput? Where did the 350,000 euro in Tekes (Finnish Tax Payer Money) go?

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.. compare:Love Machine Inc. Tao http://www.lovemachineinc.com/jobs/Our TaoTransparency. We will commit to systems and practice that give all team members a well-developed sense of what is going on, how everyone else is doing, and where we are going. This will include things like using messaging systems that show us all day-to-day what is getting done and who is doing it, as well as completely

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Why don't they have a premium service they charge for? Or link people together ... great service!---------------------------Dear ClustrMaps user,Many thanks for being a loyal ClustrMaps user for the past year. Now that a year has elapsed since your account xxxxxx was registered or archived, we are writing just to let you know that an annual automatic 'archive' of your red dots has taken place,

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Las Vegas, site of the annual Consumer Electronics Show will be the venue for the first public showing of LEGO Universe. The game, due this year, is being produced by dev studio Net Devil; it will have both a subscription and opt-in microtransaction revenue model. Better have interactive toys or DUUUUUUUUHHHH YAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/your-money/credit-and-debit-cards/05visa.html?em

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... Dear Readers & Clients! If you want to make money in 2010, contact PaymentGuy@GMAIL.COM. Or just go fishing ...

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Check the exchange generated by http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/12/17/sulake-fires-28-and-signals-plans-for-facebook/#more-12029; Sulka6 days 15 hours ago“There are no plans on when they will be releasing the application to other countries.”How about a day before this was published? :)Reply#Osma Ahvenlampi6 days ago“environment isn’t all that lively inside the company”Guys, you need to try and

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Good coverage of Sulake's "transition" at Arctic Startup Blog: Back in October we wrote about the negotiations Sulake was having with its employees about reducing the work force. The plan back then was to reduce the workforce by 20%, which would have meant something along the lines of 40 people. They ended up sacking 28 people, to cut costs, and thus stayed well below the initial plan of 20%.

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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091222005113&newsLang=en

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So what exactly does WePay do that PayPal can’t? The difference stems from the way payment accounts are set up. With PayPal, your account is tied to your name, without any way to separate the payments associated with your soccer team from those of your fraternity or your own personal transactions. On WePay, you can create a unique, FDIC insured account for each of these. The account is still

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"On PayPal, eBay's online payment unit, the number of cash gifts through PayPal Send Money grew 164% from June to December. Start-up Lottay.com, an online gift-giving service that is a partner of PayPal, says the number of cash gifts given through its site has increased eight times since November, to 1,043 in December. This month, Lottay users requested $11.2 million in cash. In a consumer

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"The average consumer has 5.1 of the nine instruments, and uses 4.2 in a typical month. Consumers make 53 percent of their monthly payments with a payment card (credit, debit, and prepaid). More consumers now have debit cards than credit cards, and consumers use debit cards more often than cash, credit cards, or checks individually. Cash, checks, and other paper instruments are still popular and

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Barunson Games, Linden Lab's business partner responsible for localizing the service for Korean market announced on November 13 that they are giving up Second Life Korea, citing that the service has failed to attract the interest of Korean users. Korea, along with Japan, has been notoriously difficult market to break into for many global online service companies, as their local markets remain

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Metaplace, the brainchild of former Sony Online Entertainment creative exec Raph Koster, will cease service effective January 1, 2010. In a message to users, Koster wrote, "Unfortunately, over the last few months it has become apparent that Metaplace as a consumer user-generated content service is not gaining enough traction to be a viable product, requiring a strategic shift for our company."

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Zong received Frost & Sullivan's 2009 Best Practices Award for New Product Innovation in the Mobile Payments category. "Zong was the clear winner in the mobile payments category, as they delivered a smooth and flexible payment mechanism -- evidence to Frost & Sullivan of their ability as a company to innovate and continue to penetrate their market." Frost & Sullivan is a research and consulting

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Nokia Money, the new mobile financial service, was awarded as a world-changing idea for 2010 by Wallpaper* Magazine and Wolff-Olins on December 15, in London. The “Top 10 innovations from 2009 that will succeed in 2010- award” is granted to the key trends and changes for the year ahead, identified by a senior level of selected panel of judges. Out of 400 submissions 40 were selected for the

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mPayy has announced the availability of its mobile payments application in the Android marketplace for all phones that run the Android operating system. mPayy says it "enables free person-to-person payments between members, and low cost merchant processing through its new Android application." There are no costs for opening an mPayy account or making payments. Personal account-holders can receive

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http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?p=3602UK-based Little World Gifts is developing a range of virtual goods available for gifting to others. The virtual goods are all 3D and allow the recipients to interact with them. The iPhone app is being released this month (ready for Xmas) and will also have Facebook integration, tapping into the $40m virtual gifting revenue stream.

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... AVOID! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/your-money/credit-and-debit-cards/12cards.html

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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Xoom.com, the fastest growing online money transfer company, announced today the launch of money transfer service to Denmark, Norway and Switzerland. Consumers can now wire money to any bank in Denmark, Norway or Switzerland. The money is deposited directly into the receiver's account, making it convenient for the receiver to get the money. "Xoom.com

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Check em out ... http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/send-cash-through-twitter-with-twitpay/

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https://twitpay.me/ Twitpay is a start-up that aims to allow people to send small payments through Twitter. To do this they include the recipients’ username in their message. For example, posting the update “@johnsmith twitpay $10 for lunch” would deliver the cash to that Twitterer’s Twitpay account. The company monitors the public stream of messages for the keyword “twitpay” and facilitates the

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"E-commerce is 10 years old, but it is still in its infancy," eBay CEO John Donahoe said in a wide-ranging, hour-long interview last week. The four-year eBay veteran, who was named to succeed Meg Whitman as CEO in January 2008, has been on a 20-month mission to turn around the Silicon Valley icon, which popularized online auctions for millions of people worldwide. His efforts recently resulted

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Two successful online sites are getting together to encourage their users to adopt the other’s services. IMVU and myYearbook are setting up a virtual currency exchange so that users from either service can exchange currency between the sites. The deal is significant because it is a step toward a universal virtual currency, which could have profound implications for the economies of games and

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AOL, which recently went through a major realignment as well as UI has reportedly put two notable AOL brands, instant messaging service ICQ and social network Bebo, on the selling block. The Wall Street Journal, citing "people familiar with the matter" is reporting that Facebook investor DST is negotiating for ICQ, while Bebo, a recent AOL acquisition and one which recently built out its game

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SAN FRANCISCO — The Russian firm that invested more than $200 million in Facebook this year is making another bet on the United States Internet industry. Digital Sky Technologies, or D.S.T., an investment firm with offices in Moscow and London, is leading a group that is buying a $180 million stake in Zynga, a fast-growing San Francisco company whose online games, like FarmVille, Café World and

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http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/american-express-zync-will-young-adults-want-a-charge-card/

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As the Internet matures, slowly but surely everything we do in the real world is going social. But there’s a limit to how much information we can explicitly share on all the various services. A new service, Blippy, launching today in private beta, has an interesting way to take something you do everyday, buy things with your credit card, and automatically push those transactions online for others

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Obopay has announced that its Obopay mobile payments application is now LIVE on the Apple App Store and available for free download. "By delivering a rich, user friendly experience, Obopay’s iPhone mobile payment application is unparalleled in the market today. Advanced features include push notifications and family-centric money management tools that enable parents to monitor children’s

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Navigation Capital Partners, an Atlanta-based middle market private equity firm, has announced that it has acquired the assets and associated liabilities of Prepaid Solutions USA via newly-formed entity Prepaid Solutions, Inc. (PPS). Prepaid Solutions USA was a division of West Suburban Bank (WSB), a Chicago area-based community bank and wholly-owned subsidiary of West Suburban Bancorp, Inc.

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This is interesting; http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=41269 Malaysian-based payment on line company MOL Global's purchase of social networking site Friendster has won praises from industry observers http://global.mol.com/global/portal/en/default.aspx. Media, the marketing and communications newspaper for Asia Pacific, in its on-line report today, quoted the observers as saying that it

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The survey collected data on the virtual goods buying habits of 2,425 randomly selected users of PlaySpan's product line (the PlaySpan marketplace, Spare Change, and the Ultimate Game Card). New data revealed in the report includes the finding that 80% of users who make a virtual goods purchase do so in order to use the item in their game themselves. Only 20% of virtual goods buyers will purchase

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Interactive toys that is ... "Bandai America Incorporated, the US arm of the Japanese toy company, is wrapping its arms around the Internet in a big way by including strong internet tie-ins for all major toy launches. Bandai, already a leader in introducing Japanese toys to the U.S., is expanding its dominance in the boys market to the girls category. Core to that effort is the integration of

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Western Union and InComm have announced an agreement to offer the Western Union GoCashSM service, a new U.S. in-lane prepaid money-transfer service from Western Union.http://www.paymentsnews.com/2009/12/western-union-incomm-partner-for-prepaid-money-transfer-service.html

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Six years after creating Second Life, Philip Rosedale announced that he would be focusing on a new project. Shrouded in mystery, the Linden Chairman and fellow Lindenite Ryan Downe began work in October on Love Machine Inc. Said Rosedale in today's blog post, "Yes, we are working on making a version of the Linden Lab LoveMachine (and some other tools too)...hopefully we can sell [this] to some

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Electronic Artshas announced that it has "made it easier for loyal gamers to buy their favorite EA SPORTS™ titles with the launch of the first-ever EA SPORTS branded prepaid debit card. The reloadable prepaid debit card enables users to receive a percent back from every purchase at thousands of brick-and-mortar and online retailers to redeem points (“EA SPORTS Rewards Points”) that can be used to

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Blizzard finally offers virtual goods for purchase in its MMORPG World of Warcraft. The first wave of virtual items for sale are a pair of virtual pets that have no mechanical in-game purpose, but instead strike amusing poses while let out for display. Each pet costs $10, with 50% of the proceeds from one of the two pets going to the Make-A-Wish Foundation if it is purchased before December 31,

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Dragonfish signed a deal last month with Second Life to provide numerous services including payment processing, anti-fraud, and customer support management. This basically outsources Linden's payment management business. Dragonfish is the business-to-business arm of 888, an online casino, launched earlier this year. Second Life is Dragonfish's first virtual world client, as the company usually

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Vindicia has has integrated PayPal with its billing solution, CashBox. Vindicia supports both PayPal Express Checkout and PayPal's recurring billing solution. According to the company, "these new features, in addition to the company's best-of-breed processor support and additional capabilities such as offer management, sales tax calculation, automated payment retry logic and fraud screening,

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Here is an interesting read about the Shukla/Arrington debate at VGS. Here are the results of a survey Peanut Labs ran - interesting: http://peanutlabs.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/survey-finds-arrington-has-a-point-given-choice-users-overwhelmingly-prefer-direct-payments-and-research-surveys-to-cpa-offers/

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Zynga, which aquired GoPets http://paidcontent.org/article/419-report-zynga-adds-virtual-pets-to-roster-with-gopets-acquisition/ launched PetVille. As the name implies, PetVille is Zynga's entry into the time-tested but crowded "virtual pet" genre of social game. Users can adopt and play with virtual pets, earning items to customize their virtual homes and appearances. What is curious about the

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Ukash has signed a deal with Spendon, a product of the Swedish Convenient Card AS company, which will make Ukash available in more than 500 additional new outlets in Sweden. Ukash vouchers, which allow consumers to shop online anonymously using cash, will now be available in over 300 Pressbyran kiosks and all 200 7Eleven branches found inside Shell petrol stations. Swedish customers who do not

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The short answer is NO. Any VC who invests in a closed, 1stop virtual world concept these days is wasting their money. The space is simply too crowded. Especially on the kiddie, youth, teen side. You would be better off throwing darts trying to predict the future than trying to pick the next big virtual world for teens or kids. Why is that? Simple, the industry is mature (virtual worlds

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... all we need is LOVE! Well, for now only 2 guys, Philip Rosedale and Ryan Downey (both former colleagues at Linden Lab and also best friends in real life) need is each other in their new venture called Love Machine. This looks and sounds crazy. And it just may be perceived to be so by the business community at large. Clearly, the deliberately weird and unorthodox web presence and blog of

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/23/AR2009102302200.htmlLast week we reported the rumors that VC-backed Playfish, the social games startup which has had phenomenal growth, was in the process of being acquired by games giant Electronic Arts for $250 million. However, nothing was confirmed at the time, and despite several press reports to that effect none of the

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GoPets, a site that engages users by having them "raise" customizable 3D pets downloaded onto their desktop, was sold to social games developer Zynga, according to a Facebook post by GoPets founder Erick Bethke. Says Bethke on the post: "we have sold our company into Zynga!" Bethke is now working for Zynga in its San Francisco headquarters.

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http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm?page=1&feature=3615&bhcp=1

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Most people don't make $52,000 in a year -- but Friday afternoon one Russian billionaire dropped that much cash on LUNCH!!!!!

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What are the best virtual worlds from Europe? Any thoughts Dear Readers?

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They will kick ass in this huge space.... From http://venturebeat.com/2009/10/28/obopay-moves-into-mobile-payments-for-online-games/#atObopay, a mobile payment company funded by Nokia, is announcing today that it is moving into online games so that you can buy items in social network games using your mobile phone. Obopay is one of a number of startups that make it easy to pay for services with a

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