New York, 09/28/2005:
ClickandBuy Unveils Secure Mobile Payment Platform for SanDisk’s TrustedFlash™ Card
ClickandBuy® LLC, an ePayment and storefront provider for digital content and services, today announced support of SanDisk® Corporation’s TrustedFlash™ card for mobile and portable devices. ClickandBuy provides the secure Mobile Payment Platform for SanDisk, enabling consumers to purchase items stored and downloaded on SanDisk’s TrustedFlash card. TrustedFlash is a new technology that will enable consumers to buy premium music, movies and games on flash memory cards for use in mobile phones, MP3 players, PDAs and other portable devices.
With this new service ClickandBuy, one of the leading ePayment services on the Internet with more than 5 million active account holders worldwide, expands its reach into the mobile industry extending its easy and secure payment services. ClickandBuy’s new Mobile Payment Platform allows consumers to instantly purchase and access digital content on mobile devices with only one click.
ClickandBuy’s Mobile Payment Platform enables mobile content providers to bypass high fees from mobile phone carriers and allow consumers to buy such content for 99 cents or lower for a ringtone, for example, and retain the same level of profitability as before.
”This strategic partnership with SanDisk will support the roll-out for ClickandBuy in the U.S., enabling more consumers to have access to an easy-to-use and secure mobile payment service. We are pleased to supply SanDisk with our Mobile Payment Platform and we further anticipate additional opportunities supporting other SanDisk initiatives” said Fabian G. Siegel, CEO & President of ClickandBuy LLC.
”SanDisk is excited to be working with ClickandBuy on our TrustedFlash launch. ClickandBuy’s Mobile Payment Platform is an ideal product for our customers to purchase music on their mobile phones and have a secure, easy-to-use payment system for additional tracks and services,” said Pascal Caillon, SanDisk’s Director of Mobile Commerce.
ClickandBuy, an ePayment service that gives consumers easier access to online digital and paid content, such as games, music and other online content, allows merchants to sell globally low-priced items online without being charged the high fees by credit card companies and gives consumers the choice to pay for online content through phone billing, credit cards, debit cards, cash or other means of their choosing using local currencies. ClickandBuy is as well the safe alternative for merchants, reducing online fraud and increasing market reach and revenues. Major clients include Apple iTunes, which uses ClickandBuy to distribute its service throughout 14 European countries, Kiplinger, iVillage, The Independent (UK), Discovery Channel and Disney's Toontown (UK) online.
About ClickandBuy LLC
ClickandBuy LLC, a joint venture between Billing Concepts and Webpay Group, headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, helps major companies from all over the world to increase their digital content and service revenues and reduce fraud problems. Besides providing services directly to merchants, ClickandBuy establishes licensing agreements with telecom companies, which include British Telecom, Swisscom and Telmex. Over five million consumers and 3,800 online merchants are successfully using ClickandBuy in fifteen countries worldwide. For more information about ClickandBuy, log on to the website at http://www.clickandbuy.com.
Sandisk Corporation
SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world’s largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its sales outside the U.S.
Contact and additional information:
Stuart Ginsberg(917) 374-3788
stuart.ginsberg@clickandbuy.com
