When Google launched an online-payment service called Google Checkout last year, many analysts saw it as a serious threat to eBay’s PayPal, which is currently the leader in online payment, offering its services not just through eBay but through million of other sites.
Now it appears that Microsoft would like to join the online-payment party. At the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft co-founder, chairman and chief visionary Bill Gates said that online “micropayments” was an area he thought the company would likely go after.
globeandmail.com: Microsoft wants to put the micro in micropayments
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