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Google Wallet to Become the Payment Method for Android Market

Android users who make purchases from the Android Market have now at their disposal Google's Checkout payment method for paying for the purchases they make while in the storefront, but that should change soon. Recently, Google announced that Google Wallet will eat up Checkout, and that it will become the defa...

18 November 2011
02:44 GMT

Google Checkout Could Greatly Benefit from a Google Social Network

With Google’s latest moves in the social gaming market and with the impending, but still unconfirmed, launch of Google Me, there is one Google product that could benefit the most from it, Checkout. Google’s payments platform hasn’t been a massive success, but the company is plowing ahead and trying ...

9 August 2010
06:26 GMT

Here’s Apple’s New iPod touch-Based EasyPay Checkout

ifoAppleStore has confirmed that Apple is now switching to iPod touch for customer checkout at its retail stores. The source earlier revealed that Apple had decided to make a few adjustments with its retail establishments and the employees in charge with selling its products. Changes not only include the replacing of...

5 November 2009
09:55 GMT

Stores in UK Targeted by Credit Card Fraudsters

According to a BBC investigation, stolen US credit card details are shared on the underground carding market for use in the UK. A gang that stole thousands of credit card details from ATMs across the US are contacting UK carders, and have them manufacture fake card clones to buy goods, or withdraw cash from self-serv...

2 September 2008
09:12 GMT

Amazon.com Offers Two New Pay Services for Small Businesses

Amazon.com has just launched two new pay services for firms. Checkout, the first of the two, offers different features, such as the 1-click experience. Whenever people are searching for something to buy on an Amazon.com partner website, they are given the possibility of placing the order without leaving the page. The...

30 July 2008
04:17 GMT

Checkout - A Fully Featured Point of Sale System

If you are a retailer or if you have thought at some point in your life of starting your own business, then you should know that besides a business plan and the money to start with, you also need a good management software solution. Usually, in this type of activity you need at least two or three software application...

30 June 2008
14:22 GMT

Google Trends Welcoming Baby Brother

Using Google Trends is a good way to relax or to waste time in case you're not typing in the queries for real and have some real interest in the results. It is a service that allows you to compare the words you insert in the search box with what users have been searching for, over a specified period of time. The...

11 January 2008
09:17 GMT

You Get to Vote Google's Features

Google Checkout hasn't been one of the prominent products that the Mountain View based company has ever given birth to and it's something of a baby attempt to take over the respective market, currently dominated without any shadow of a doubt by PayPal.Their strategy was somewhere in between providing Checko...

8 January 2008
03:04 GMT

Google Checkout - A Good Deal

Everybody likes free stuff and quality isn't always that important. I mean, yeah, it's not like it's something you paid a lot of money for and after that it turns out to be a worthless piece of crap that you didn't actually need and can't remember why you bought it. And when I say quality isn...

26 November 2007
14:31 GMT

Google Goes to School

Google Checkout, that special service powered by the Mountain View company that fights with PayPal for the supremacy of the online shopping domain, is again brought in the spotlights using a new offer addressed to pupils and parents. Basically, several stores registered for Google Checkout are selling school stuff su...

9 August 2007
14:46 GMT

Today's Live Show: Have Fun with Google!

The iGoogle solution is improved every once in a while but today's update is somehow different from the older ones. Basically, it adds interoperability between the personalized homepage and Google Checkout, the product that allows you to buy all kinds of things from a single webpage. Yes, you've guessed, it...

11 July 2007
02:55 GMT

Google Takes On eBay for Online Money

Google and eBay are now two of the most important rivals competing for the leader position of a certain domain of the market. Both companies are trying to obtain the first place in the online payments area as their solutions grew up a lot in the recent period. Google Checkout was in a continuously increase since its ...

10 July 2007
04:28 GMT

Google Celebrates 4th Of July with Downtimes!

The Independence Day is a holiday celebrated in multiple corners of the world, not necessarily in the United States. However, the Mountain View company Google is also enjoying this free day and announcing nothing more than a... downtime. Yes, you've heard it right, Google prepares some maintenance periods for it...

4 July 2007
03:18 GMT

Google and FedEx Work On Online Shopping

Every once in a while, Google improves Checkout with new promotions and bonuses because the Mountain View company is continuously working to boost the number of customers registered for the product. Today, a new promotion was rolled out as the parent company Google made a deal with FedEx to offer free credit card pro...

20 June 2007
03:20 GMT

eBay Starts The War Against Google

The Internet giant eBay has stopped buying text adverts provided by the Mountain View company Google after the search giant started a powerful campaign against the auction website. Google recently announced a party for the merchants and the sellers registered with the company, in the detriment of the live event prepa...

14 June 2007
05:23 GMT

Google's Malefic Plan: Forever Free!

It's well known the fact that Google is offering only free solutions, most of them being accessible from a web-based interface with a freeware Google account. I know, there are a few exceptions like Google Mini and the premium versions of Google Apps, but the Mountain View firm is a free company. And it will rem...

7 June 2007
04:31 GMT

The Googlephone Is On Its Way

The Mountain View company makes another step towards the long-awaited mobile phone and releases another service compatible with the handheld devices. The UK and the US phone owners are now able to buy stuff from the Internet using the Checkout platform that is now accessible from any handheld with WAP support. Obviou...

31 May 2007
02:30 GMT

Google to Lose the First Place Soon

Google, the leader of the online search engines, is more and more challenged by other Internet companies that are aiming to build similar solutions with the ones developed by the search giant. In the recent period, the most threatened product is surely YouTube, the online video sharing service, acquired in October 20...

20 April 2007
10:28 GMT

I Want to Shop Online. Google or Yahoo?

In the recent period, the online shopping became an important activity on the Internet, more and more users being lured to buy stuff straight from the websites. The online shopping is quite easy and tends to become more secure because the companies are trying to implement security systems able to protect the customer...

19 April 2007
11:00 GMT

Google vs. Yahoo - Part 1

The battle for the most popular online shopping service on the Internet started a few days ago when the giant portal Yahoo announced a partnership with PayPal, a deal meant to improve the Yahoo search engine. Using the agreement, the company updated the search technology with a new feature, allowing the users to buy...

19 April 2007
02:56 GMT

Yahoo + PayPal = Search Engine Shopping

Yahoo recently signed a deal with PayPal to build an extremely useful function for the online shopper, allowing them to buy their stuff straight from the SERP. Yahoo managed to integrated PayPal's features into the search engine and, once a user will search the Internet after a certain product, the technology wi...

18 April 2007
05:25 GMT

Google Checkout Hits The UK

Google Checkout is an online paying system accessible to numerous countries and owned by Google. Since the release of the product, the search giant tried to promote it and offered free processing until December 31, 2007. After this period, Google Checkout will start to charge the registered merchants with $0.20 per t...

13 April 2007
05:47 GMT

Google to Sell Viacom's Content

Nowadays, one of the most known Google enemies is surely Viacom, the company that sued YouTube for publishing videos without authorization. If you don't know the story, let me present it to you: Viacom, the owner of MTV and Comedy Central, demanded YouTube to remove almost 100.000 clips from the page because the...

21 March 2007
03:49 GMT

Dreamweaver Tools for Google Now Available!

Google is surely the best search engine on the Internet and this makes its products very attractive for the Internet users. Many web designers were working in the past to develop simple techniques to allow them to add Google's services on certain pages. In the last months, the search giant tried to offer this po...

19 March 2007
05:42 GMT


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