ClickandBuy starts with unique worldwide technology

With the help of a new technology, users of the Internet payment system, ClickandBuy, are able to take a worldwide shopping tour.

The micro-payment provider FIRSTGATE Internet AG headquartered in Cologne, Germany has developed an exclusively Internet-based pricing and invoicing system for premium online content and services.

With its newly developed „Roaming-Technology”, all registered users in the US, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria and Switzerland are now able to buy online content worldwide with a click of a mouse. Users are billed in their own currency.

This way, a German FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™ user is able to buy content from the largest encyclopedia in the world, the „Encyclopedia Britannica”: www.britannica.co.uk, or enjoy one of the most popular game sites in Great Britain: www.gamesdomain.co.uk. Everything one needs to know about the healing power of vitamins, minerals and herbs, can be found in the online database of „Readers Digest”, one of the largest publishing corporations in the US: www.rd.com/vmh.

Norbert Stangl, CEO of FIRSTGATE Internet AG explains: „Now content providers of FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™ have the ability to sell their premium chargeable content internationally. FIRSTGATE is the only worldwide Internet pricing and billing system offering this innovative technology.”

FIRSTGATE-founder Norbert Stangl is well on his way to establish a worldwide standard for Internet payment solutions. With the new roaming technology, the number of websites worldwide making use of FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™ has increased from 2,500 to approx. 3,000.

In only 3 years, FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™ has established itself as one of the leading payment solutions for digital content and e-services. Over 1.7 million Internet users have purchased digital content with FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™, and each month up to 100,000 new users register for the service. More than 3,000 online content providers are currently making profits using FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™. Examples of major companies that trust their e-commerce business to FIRSTGATE ClickandBuy™ include CNN/N-TV.de, Reader’s Digest, Encyclopædia Britannica, RTL, Playboy.de, Bild.t-online.de, Spiegel.net AG, German Post, AutoScout24 and UNICEF. A full overview of content providers can be found on FIRSTGATE and affiliates’ websites. Please visit:
http://www.firstgate.de
http://www.clickandbuy.com
http://www.btclickandbuy.com

Contact and additional information:

Eberhard Dollinger
ClickandBuy International Limited
Lincoln House
137 / 143 Hammersmith Road
W14 0QL London
Telefon: + 49 (0)221 - 4545700
Telefax: +49 (0)221 - 4545721
presse@de.clickandbuy.com
www.clickandbuy.com/DE/en/