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06 Sep 08

What You Didn't Know About Payment Systems | Practical eCommerce

  • Fee variance is significant, depending on the vendor you choose. For example, customers who select the Authorize.Net platform can obtain quotes from a number of resellers whose rates vary widely. A savvy shopper can find resellers offering rates significantly below a standard market rate. Other vendors, such as PayPal and Cybersource are pretty consistent in terms of fee structure.

  • While Bodine cited Authorize.Net, Cybersource and VeriSign as the big three in the payment-systems marketplace, vendors such as PayPal and Google have made significant headway into what experts call the alternative payment-solution marketplace. In fact, Google has decided not to charge processing fees through the end of 2007 in order to help its Checkout product reach critical mass.



    Google's Checkout system allows consumers to enter billing information one time in order to make online purchases a one-click process on ecommerce sites that have made themselves Checkout-capable. While Google has seemingly eliminated the need for a merchant account with its solution, Bodine cautions that it's not the same as an all-in-one payment gateway/merchant account solution.



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02 Mar 06

Online economics textbooks

  • good for self learners - joel on 2005-10-29
  • This online textbook is accompanied by online Flash and QuickTime tutorials, interactive spreadsheet, and PowerPoint slides.
  • This online textbook, provided by R. Preston McAfee (Calfornia Institute of Technology) provides a rigorous coverage of a wide range of microeconomic topics. It's a remarkably comprehensive introductory text.

FT.com / Comment & analysis - Ask the experts: Netscape and the next big thing

  • In many Asian countries, access to very high speed broadband is more prolific -
    as you may have read the US is falling way behind on this front. Also, as you
    continue to read the insatiable thirst for learning in countries like China is
    well above the Western world. In these areas, and for these reasons, you should
    expect online learning to thrive - it will be huge. But it will be correlated
    with broadband speed.
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