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In the USA Claim Jumper Restaurants chain entered into an agreement with the electronic payment services provider, Verifone, to install the CarsidePay option at selected locations and the TablePay option at all 45 restaurants from California to the Midwest.

The recent reports inform that a leading electronic payments processing and support services company ePayments Corp. is to purchase ACH Technologies Inc. of Hastings, Minn.

In accordance with the agreement ePayments will control and manage the company's check recovery accounts from Denver. In addition ePayments will be enabled to offer additional services like credit card processing and electronic check conversion to the newly acquired accounts.

A new online payment option is being introduced by Google China for its AdSense advertising alliance.

Localizing an online Chinese payment system is a top priority goal Google China poses for its local AdSense efforts. At present time it is conducting pilot tests of the new payment system.

The name of the Google's payment partner was not disclosed yet, but as per Roy Zhou (Zhou Wenbiao), Google's manager for online sales and operations in northern Asia, Alipay is not concerned with it.

The staff of Google's AdSense team in Beijing at present moment has a total of 26 people.

The largest credit union in the world and the 22nd largest receiving financial institution of ACH payments in the USA Navy Federal Credit Union reported that it joined NACHA—The Electronic Payments Association.

Being the largest credit union in the world it has over 3 million members and $35 billion in assets and enhanced membership base with all branches of the armed forces.

The website redesign is being carried out by Facebook that invites users to preview and test the new features.

The participants to test the pilot version are to compare the current appearance of the site with the new design while all the users will have access within the following months.

Motorists in every county in Nebraska are now offered to pay traffic tickets online. The courts in Banner, Blaine, Butler, Deuel, Dixon, Furnas, Garden, Greeley, Polk, Saline, Sioux, and Wayne allow drivers to pay traffic fines via the Nebraska Judicial Branch’s new online payment system.

Despite the fact that in the entire South America the largest number of Internet subscribers is concentrated in Brazil (15.8 million users), this figure accounts for only around 11% of the country’s population.

Yet the Brazilians, having an opportunity to avail of Internet connection, use it to a maximum extent. e-bit conducted a study that found e-commerce to be a growing online activity in the country.

Citigroup Inc reports that it was named the winner of three prestigious global awards granted by Euromoney Magazine editors as part of the publication's 2008 Awards for Excellence. Thus the award was given for such categories as Best Global Cash Management Bank, Best Global Investor Services Bank and Best Global Emerging Market Debt House. It is the first time for the Citi to win the Best Global Investor Services Bank award, the third time to win Cash Management and the second time to win Emerging Market Debt House.

Begun, Russia's leading online context advertising service, is to be purchased by the  Internet search giant, Google, for $140 million from Rambler.

At the present time Rambler owns 50.1% of Begun while the remaining 49.9% belongs to Bannatyne Limited, an affiliate of the Finam group of companies. After the deal Rambler is determined to acquire the remnant share from Finam for $69.9 million.

Online rebate payment system is being considered for introduction at Pos Malaysia Berhad, a post services company in Malaysia. The system is intended for the convenience of the public.

According to the Operations chief, Mearia Hamzah, plans to launch the kind of services are being weighed by several parties.