Click&Buy Unveils Secure Mobile Payment Platform for SanDisk`s TrustedFlashT Card
New York, NY – September 28, 2005 -- Click&Buy® LLC, an ePayment and storefront provider for digital content and services, today announced support of SanDisk® Corporation’s TrustedFlash™ card for mobile and portable devices. Click&Buy provides the secure Mobile Payment Platform for SanDisk, enabling consumers to purchase items stored and downloaded on SanDisk’s TrustedFlash card. TrustedFlash is a new technology that will enable consumers to buy premium music, movies and games on flash memory cards for use in mobile phones, MP3 players, PDAs and other portable devices.
With this new service Click&Buy, a leading ePayment service on the Internet with more than 5 million active account holders worldwide, expands its reach into the mobile industry extending its easy and secure payment services. Click&Buy’s new Mobile Payment Platform allows consumers to instantly purchase and access digital content on mobile devices with only one click.
Click&Buy’s Mobile Payment Platform enables mobile content providers to bypass high fees from mobile phone carriers and allow consumers to buy such content for 99 cents or lower for a ringtone, for example, and retain the same level of profitability as before.
“This strategic partnership with SanDisk will support the roll-out for Click&Buy in the U.S., enabling more consumers to have access to an easy-to-use and secure mobile payment service. We are pleased to supply SanDisk with our Mobile Payment Platform and we further anticipate additional opportunities supporting other SanDisk initiatives” said Fabian G. Siegel, CEO & President of Click&Buy LLC.
“SanDisk is excited to be working with Click&Buy on our TrustedFlash launch. Click&Buy’s Mobile Payment Platform is an ideal product for our customers to purchase music on their mobile phones and have a secure, easy-to-use payment system for additional tracks and services,” said Pascal Caillon, SanDisk’s Director of Mobile Commerce.
Click&Buy, an ePayment service that gives consumers easier access to online digital and paid content, such as games, music and other online content, allows merchants to sell globally low-priced items online without being charged the high fees by credit card companies and gives consumers the choice to pay for online content through phone billing, credit cards, debit cards, cash or other means of their choosing using local currencies. Click&Buy is as well the safe alternative for merchants, reducing online fraud and increasing market reach and revenues. Major clients include Apple iTunes, which uses Click&Buy to distribute its service throughout 14 European countries, Kiplinger, iVillage, The Independent (UK), Discovery Channel and Disney`s Toontown (UK) online.
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
About Click&Buy LLC
Click&Buy LLC, a joint venture between Billing Concepts and Webpay Group, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, helps major companies from all over the world to increase their digital content and service revenues and reduce fraud problems. Besides providing services directly to merchants, Click&Buy establishes licensing agreements with telecom companies, which include British Telecom, Swisscom and Telmex. Over five million consumers and 3,800 online merchants are successfully using Click&Buy in fifteen countries worldwide.
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