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11 October
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Seen that? – Another non-starter: Micropayments

Another non-starter: Micropayments at P2P File Sharing

Anita guided me a good roundup from the MIT Technology Review about recent developments in the micropayment area. It intensively portrays Peppercoin a very different approach to the transaction cost issue. "The timing looks good, too—not just for Peppercoin, but for other micropayment companies as well. "One year ago, it was, 'Will people pay?' Now it's, 'How will they pay?'" says Ian Price, CEO of British Telecommunications' Click and Buy division, [...] Read More


Paypal Slashes Fees for Micropayments at TJ’s Weblog

Red Herring reports that Paypal is slashing its fees for microtransactions, finally admitting that its charge for digital goods is just too high."The digital content to be covered by the service would include video games, online greeting cards, news articles, mobile phone content, and music. PayPal has already been working with digital music providers to process small payments, a typical example being the $0.99 payments for iTunes.PayPal's transaction fee is [...] Read More


 
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