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    Catherine Shu
    May 20th, 2013

    Google Checkout Nixed In Favor of Google Wallet

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    Google Checkout is being sunsetted as the company focuses on shaping Google Wallet into a viable PayPal rival. Google Commerce announced today that Google Checkouts will be retired on November 20. → Read More

    Leena Rao
    August 8th, 2010

    What Games, Places, Music And News Could Mean For Google Checkout

    While Google’s payment system, Google Checkout, is not a giant in the online payments space, it is certainly not a failure, especially when compared to some of Google’s other product extensions. Launched in 2006, Google Checkout allows users to pay for an item using a preset log-in, similar to PayPal or Amazon Payments. The company claims that “hundreds of thousands” of merchants currently use… → Read More

    Robin Wauters
    November 30th, 2009

    Google Checkout Now Deals In Holiday Savings

    It’s the Monday after Thanksgiving / Black Friday, which means many people will dub today Cyber Monday, a horrendous marketing term that refers to yet another one of the busiest days of the year for retail.

    And while Microsoft has been making many online shoppers happy the past few days with the Bing Cashback system, Google has now set up a special ‘Checkout Deals’ page where you can get… → Read More

    Nicholas Deleon, Contributor
    November 18th, 2007

    PayPal To Offer Virtual Credit Card Payment Product

    Paypal will launch a new virtual credit card payment product Tuesday. The new service “PayPal Secure Card” generates a one use unique Mastercard number that Paypal users can utilize to make payments on sites that don’t take Paypal. According to Reuters, the software package with PayPal Secure Card automatically recognizes an e-commerce checkout page and fills out the payment… → Read More

    John Biggs, Contributor
    June 29th, 2006

    Google Checkout offers low-cost transactions for sellers; what's in it for me?

    Google Checkout launched early this morning and may significantly change the online shopping sector. The system offers low transaction costs for merchants and mediation between buyers and sellers online in exchange for access to what will be a huge amount of data about shopping and sales conversions. There doesn’t appear to be many benefits for buyers in the system. There are $10 discounts… → Read More