Google Checkout

According to the latest reports an online auction giant eBay will no longer support Google Checkout payment system starting next July. Users won’t be allowed to use any checkout service except eBay’s own payment processor PayPal.

Explaining the move the company says it wants “to give eBay buyers a consistent, speedy checkout experience and to ensure support for fast-growing sales via mobile platforms...,” Todd Lutwak, eBay’s vice president of the seller experience, wrote in a little-noticed blog post last week.

It became known that last month Google has secretly invested an undisclosed amount of money   in Zynga, a developer of games for Facebook (Mafia Wars and Farmville). According to Techcrunch the price is something between $100 million and $200 million. 

Google reported in a posting on its Google Checkout Blog that customers now can use new Android Payment Extension which is an option for mobile merchants to quickly set up a store and accept payments via Google Checkout and Android.

For these merchants should follow the steps below:

As many businesses today who want to join the world of ecommerce have scarce resources to do so they usually go to online auctions like eBay to pursue their online selling objectives. At the moment Google is testing a new system that allows people with little or no knowledge of programming and with no money to pay for such services to establish their own online shop for free. The search giant is conducting a pilot test of its new solution called Google Checkout Store Gadget.

NetSuite, on-demand enterprise software provider, has announced that its NetSuite Ecommerce platform is now fully integrated with the Google Checkout service, giving online merchants another payment option to offer their customers. The support for Google's popular service means e-traders now do not have to worry that they may be losing customers who regard Checkout as their preferred way of paying for goods online, said NetSuite.

YouTube has announced that it is working on making its videos available offline. Thai Tran, Product Manager, has posted a blog content on the YouTube Blog informing the consumers of developments.

According to the product manager, YouTube will be using Creative Commons licenses that authorize license holders to reuse downloaded content in particular conditions.