Online Processing Merchant Account

Traverse Global Communications Corp is now an authorized private label reseller for Wells Fargo and Authorize.Net merchant account services to provide online real time e-commerce transactions.

By offering private label merchant accounts through it's Credit Plus (http://www.creditplus.net/) subsidiary, Traverse Global will be able to leverage the depth of quality services that their new partners offer to their existing client base. For just $29.95/mo, clients of Traverse Global will be able to process credit cards in real time through their own website and receive free web hosting along with a free shopping cart to conveniently process their orders.

New mobile payment service eschews cash and checks for phones

Mpayy Inc., an online and mobile payment processing company, will launch tomorrow a service that enables merchants and shoppers to conduct retail transactions using mobile phones and online payment accounts. Shoppers can use the Mpayy service with roving salespersons or on retail web sites.

Merchants set up accounts on Mpayy.com to establish a mobile payment system. Mobile merchantsMpayy is not yet targeting bricks-and-mortar retailerscan access reports on sales, send funds to desired banks, manage refunds and perform other tasks through a web-enabled administrative application. Shoppers set up accounts on the Mpayy site, entering their mobile phone number, account nickname, and checking account information.

To conduct a transaction with a roving merchantan Avon lady, for examplea shopper logs in to Mpayys mobile web site and enters the merchants mobile phone number or nickname, enters the amount of the purchase, and submits the information, which brings up a transaction confirmation page with a Pay button to complete the purchase.

Small mercies

They told us to live well," Mr Ma, 36, recalled. "We said we always did. They told us to build a beautiful family. We said we already had that. They drove us to the local bus station. We bought tickets and went home. I rang from the station and my wife and two kids were so excited. It was an incredibly happy homecoming."

Twelve days later, three female pastors arrested with the men and sentenced to one year in Wuhan women's labour camp were also released. In all, at least seven people were pardoned and released - a rare move in the mainland's notorious labour camp system. (The fate of two other women serving sentences outside camp due to family circumstances could not be confirmed, but Mr Ma believed they were pardoned, bringing the total perhaps to nine.)

After almost six decades of severe repression by the officially atheist state, speculation is growing in Christian circles that the government may want to seek accommodation with the mainland's large and rapidly growing underground "house church" movement.