Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, are definitely great tools – but we want to meet you face-to-face!
Therefore, DaoPay is exhibiting at the Engage! Expo which takes place February 16-17, 2010 at the Javits Convention Center in New York City.
Meet Georg Alscher and Georg T. Klotzberg in booth 32 in the Technology Pavilion and check out the latest news and our live demo!
Let us know if you would like to arrange a meeting.
Starting this February, a new US law bans credit cards for those under 21 unless they have enough income or get someone to co-sign.
The so called “Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009″ furthermore restricts credit card issuers from raising interest rates without warning, penalizing customers who pay on time, and levying excessive fees.
For the full story, have a look here.
So what do you think of this law? Let us know your opinion!
DaoPay now offers text/SMS-based mobile payments for Switzerland, too!
Since it is always good to know the local market and business opportunities, we have prepared some information on the Swiss telecommunication market:
The statistics speak for themselves: 5 million land lines and 8 million mobile phones in a country with 7.7 million inhabitants – that is Switzerland from the perspective of a telecommunication provider. Due to the liberalization in 1998, there are now several operators (GTN, Sunrise, Orange, or Econophone) besides the still dominating Swisscom, the former monopolist Telecom PTT.
The following Swiss peculiarity may be noteworthy:
Since 2003 you always have to dial the area code, even if you are in the same area! In fact, the code (e.g., 055) blends with the telephone number (e.g., 234 56 78) to a new number (055 234 56 78), and the so-called “area code” actually is no longer an area code. Telephone numbers should therefore be listed without the usual delimiters, e.g. (), /, -, and so forth.
More than 40 million people have joined IMVU, an avatar-based social network and virtual world where people meet and interact in 3D. IMVU has the world’s largest virtual goods catalog of more than 3 million items, almost all of which are created by its own users. IMVU Inc. is profitable, and daopay is contributing to this success with phone payments.
Everyone here at daopay is more than excited that IMVU users can now personalize their avatars, shop at the IMVU store and simply charge their purchase to their phone bill! We know that a significant number of people prefer not to use their credit card online – and now that IMVU has added daopay as a new payment option, everyone can simply dial a number and instantly buy credits with their regular mobile or home phone in an easy, secure and convenient way.
Click here to buy IMVU credits by phone without a credit card or bank account!
Cameron Chapman of noupe, the web design blog, has asked what the web will look like five years from now. His number one? Micropayments.
“Micro-payments of the future may be closely-related to mobile payment systems. Payment via cell phone opens up whole new area of economic opportunity, particularly in areas where cell phones are more prevalent than computers. Being able to make and receive very small payments, the equivalent of a dollar or less in many cases, via a mobile device paves the way for many in developing nations to participate in the Internet economy in a way that only a few years ago might not have been deemed possible.”
I’m tempted to say that we couldn’t agree more, and in fact, I do. Let me just mention that paying by home phones isn’t a bad choice either 
Read more about micropayments and The Future of The Web on noupe.
How can we help businesses grow beyond just payments? We’ve come up with an idea that we’d like to “beta test” with a very small number of customers. The programme we’re trying would basically send traffic to your web site and hopefully convert into paying customers – something that I’m sure every startup can need If you’re about to launch your product in the near future and you accept daopay, please e-mail a short description of what you’re doing to andreas at daopay dot com and I’ll get back to you within a couple of days.
With the increasing number of calls we’re processing globally, we want to make sure that everyone who calls us remembers having a positive, friendly experience when paying with us. This month we’ve asked Anja, a female speaker from Germany, to record new announcements for our German callers - and we’re more than pleased with the results. But just hear it yourself – it’s a pleasure to listen to Anja, even if you don’t speak German
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