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No Freebies This Year Says Google

Cyber Monday less than a week away and as consumers find it harder to break out that credit card, Google (NASDAQ GOOG) is giving consumers a lump of coal this year. To date, Google Checkout has yet to see profitability and while that’s not abnormal for Google services beyond its cash cow, text links, will [...]

26Nov2008 | Riley Poole | 0 comments | Continued
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Speculation around Google Payments?

Rumor has it that Google Payments may be discontinued. With all their success, as with so many others, Google (NASDAQ GOOG) assumed that by throwing enough money at something, that it will be successful but those close to the project may see a different story.
The amount of money that has gone into the project has [...]

14Jul2008 | Riley Poole | 0 comments | Continued
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Google Checkout A Ghost Town

In line with our prediction that nearly 90% of the transaction activity decreased from Google (NASDAQ GOOG) Checkout from a holiday high a year ago, The Google Checkout Merchant Forum is proof positive that the program is all but dead.
As Google struggles on many fronts, including its ailing stock price, there are many causalities including [...]

10Feb2008 | Riley Poole | 14 comments | Continued
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Google Plans to Discontinue Google Checkout?

It wouldn’t be the first time Google (NASDAQ GOOG) caved in to competition, anyone remember Google Answers? As Paypal sees impressive growth numbers, rumor has it that nearly 90% of merchants have dropped the use of Google Checkout after the discontinuation of their “free” processing period.
With Google’s stock in tanking now, rumor has it that [...]

4Feb2008 | Riley Poole | 19 comments | Continued
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The Perfect Scam

What happens when you mix credit card fraud and click fraud? You get the perfect scam. It seems fraudsters have been hard at work at milking Google (NASDAQ GOOG) and other PPC networks such as Microsoft AdCenter (NASDAQ MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ YHOO) out of valuable click traffic but what’s most shocking is that these [...]

30Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 10 comments | Continued
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The Downfall of Google Clicks

Okay, I know the title may scare some of you lemmings that own Google (NASDAQ GOOG) stock. Of course, with the current state of the stock market and where Google shares are currently heading, you guys are probably shaking in your boots already. So, the gloom and doom title of my post may not even [...]

22Jan2008 | James Blunts | 17 comments | Continued
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Has Google Checkout Stopped Paying Its Merchants?

There have been several unconfirmed reports now that Google Checkout payments haven’t been posted for several weeks now, and support emails are going unanswered for days on end. I am sorry guys if I kept you busy with the PCI thing last week but one word of advice, the quickest way to get a bad [...]

10Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 6 comments | Continued
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Update on Google Checkout and MasterCard

Google Checkout. I am happy to report that I received confirmation from Google directly that they have taken the necessary steps to complete their PCI certification. In less than a week after our post about Google not being PCI Compliant, the good people at Google quickly responded to the matter and have completed all of [...]

9Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 7 comments | Continued
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Will Google Checkout Fail in Q4-2008?

Between now and Aug 19, 2008, more than 15% of Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) workforce may resign. While turnover is normal in any company, when it becomes a matter of being set for life, you certainly face a challenge. What benefits, services, or salaries can you really offer those with enough money to last them a [...]

4Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 9 comments | Continued
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Facebook and Paypal join forces

The some 70 Million Facebook users can now buy pizza “and other stuff” directly through their Facebook account. Facebook and Paypal have teamed up, opening up Paypal’s doors to the next wave of users, post-college kids with not enough disposable income to pay off that loan debt, but enough extra cash to push Paypal’s revenues [...]

2Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 11 comments | Continued
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