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It seems that very soon those who were getting revenue from shopping online and not paying taxes will be obliged to finish their careless life. Starting from July 1 a new law on collecting more sales tax from Internet sales goes into force.

According to Malaysia-based Maybank more than 8, 500 corporations use Islamic internet-based cash management financial portal Maybank2e.net to access online zakat payment service, but it is expected that within the next 12 months 120 more will join. Zakat is a kind of obligation on Muslims who should pay 2.5 % of their income to some society categories after their annual revenue exceeds the minimum level.

Diebold Inc. is making the largest ATM sales deal in history. The partner is Caixa Economica Federal, one of the largest financial institutions in Brazil. The deal is targeted at the Brazilian growing market and is expected to bring additional 9,600 full-function Diebold ATMs to the country's customers.

Tourism Trust Fund of Kenya insists on legalizing electronic payments that at the moment are represented only by Kenya Airways which succeeded due to its cooperation with South African Banks. All the local banks are avoiding e-payments due to the threats of online fraud.

The study about the popularity of and the general interest in voice verification conducted by Harris Interactive for Nuance Communications revealed that consumers welcome this technology for protecting their personal information.

The study found that almost two-fifths of the consumers surveyed would prefer dealing with a company that provides voice verification; the number grew to three-fifths at the end of the survey and after reviewing its benefits.

Biometric Signature ID ("BSI") and Quick Business Operating Systems (QBOS) are partnering on a conjoint project. BSI is going to operate its dynamic biometric authentication and verification solutions within QBOS's Business Process Automation Suite of products.

Molson, Canada's oldest brewer acquired iCongo's Business-to-Consumer Retail E-Commerce Platform to introduce its online shop-window http://www.shopmolson.com/. On the site customers can view and chose favorite goods of different brands like Molson Signature, Molson Canadian, Molson Dry, Molson Export, Coors Light, Pilsner and Rickard's.

eBill online program was launched in the city of Naperville to enable customers to pay their monthly utility bill over the Internet in 2001. At that times initially there were some problems where residents were being double-billed.

The eCommerce Merchant Trade Association recently has approved BoldChat, a leading live-communication provider, as an official solution provider for online merchant's partnership worldwide. The aim of ECMTA is to maintain working partnership between merchants all over the world by providing online retailers a package offer which enables real-time chats, visitor-monitoring and proactive invitations at price that would pay back quickly.

The leader of Asian e-commerce market, Chinese company Alibaba.com, has announced about its partnership with Intel Corp in order to provide E-commerce PCs especially for small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in China.