BillMyParents Partners With Offerpal Media

By On November 30, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today BillMyParents parent company Socialwise announced that it had entered a partnership with ad offer network Offerpal Media. The two companies will work together to develop new payment solutions targeted at teens and tweens.    "We plan to create effective solutions by combining the unique attributes of the BillMyParents youth payment system, along with Offerpal’s [...]

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Boku Announces 12 New Partners, New Tech

By On November 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today the mobile payment provider Boku announced twelve new service partners. Boku's new partners are Zoosk, 6waves, Snap Interactive, Cie Studios, GameDuell, Cyberstep Communications, IGG, King.com, NHN USA, Ntreev, Outspark, and Perfect World. Now all of these publishers will allow users to purchase virtual items in games and apps with their mobile and landline phone [...]

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Social Gold Rolls Out In-Game Flash Payments

By On October 28, 2009 · 1 Comment

Today Jambool announced that its Social Gold payments platform would now be able to facilitate in-game payments in Flash-based games and apps. Jambool calls the product Social Gold for Flash and bills it as a patent-pending technology that offers a completely secure payment solution. The user completes the entirety of the transaction without leaving the [...]

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Live Gamer Announces New Partners

By On October 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today the comprehensive virtual economy services provider Live Gamer announced that it had secured seven new global partners. Everyplay, friendscook, Fotochatter, Hangout, Hooked and RadiusIM, ph03nix, and GPM are all now using Live Gamer to manage all of their transaction and virtual economy needs.  Currently Live Gamer serves of 72 clients operating over 100 different projects. Distributed [...]

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Rixty Announces Cash Incentives, New Partners

By On October 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today the payment alternative service Rixty announced a new incentive promotion for users called the Cash Bonus Giveaway at Coinstar promotion. Rixty users who add funds to their accounts through CoinStar kiosks will receive $5 of Rixty's universal virtual currency free with every $50 exchanged. The promotion will run through November 1.  During that time [...]

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PaymentOne Takes $7M Strategic Round

By On August 19, 2009 · Leave a Comment

This week transaction processing company PaymentOne announced that it had closed a $7 million Series B round of strategic financing led by AER Investments LLC.  The funding is to be used to facilitate growth, help with development of mobile products, and begin building a war chest for future acquisitions. Tweet

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Jambool Takes $5M Second Round

By On August 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today Jambool, parent company of the Social Gold payment service, announced that it had secured a $5 million second round of funding lead by Madrona Venture Group with participation from Bay Partners, as reported by TechCrunch. This round follows an initial $1 million round raised in Q3 2008 from Hit Forge, Charles River Ventures, and [...]

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Edo Scores $8.5M For Prepaid Facecards

By On August 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today digital payment and marketing firm Edo Interactive announced that it had secured an $8.5 million equity investment, led by Clayton Associates along with First Avenue Partners. As a consequence, Edo will expand its board to include Matthew King of Clayton Associates and David Wilds of First Avenue Partners. The company intends to use the [...]

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League Of Legends Partners With Fatfoogoo

By On August 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today transaction provider Fatfoogoo announced that it would provide e-commerce solutions for the upcoming freemium RTS title League of Legends. This highly-anticipated game will ship in Fall 2009 as one of the first major Western-developed freemium games, though developer Riot Games did not confirm it would be freemium until last month. League of Legends will [...]

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Ukash Heads To Poland With Epay

By On August 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Today voucher-based payment provider Ukash announced that it would be partnering with the transaction processor Epay to move into retail outlets in Poland. The new partnership will allow Polish consumers to purchase Ukash vouchers from 6,000 retail locations that have already partnered with Epay. The retail locations now selling Ukash vouchers will include supermarkets, petrol [...]

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