eBay recently completed its takeover of Zong, a mobile payments provider. [1] The takeover should further bolster eBay’s online payments division PayPal, which showed its first billion-dollar quarter in Q2 2011 growing around 30% over Q1 2011. [2] The PayPal service competes with Google Checkout and credit card companies like …
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FedEx Trade Networks, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and growing international ocean and air freight forwarder, today announced its expanded global presence with three new freight forwarding offices in Europe and Asia. More: continued here
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