Facebook Launches One-Click Mobile Payments Via Bango In U.S., U.K., Germany
Mobile payment platform Bango announced that its integration with Facebook, first revealed in February, is live, and the social network’s users in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany can now purchase items such as virtual gifts and game credits and be billed via their mobile carriers.
Mobile payment platform Bango announced that its integration with Facebook, first revealed in February, is live, and the social network’s users in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany can now purchase items such as virtual gifts and game credits and be billed via their mobile carriers.
According to TechCrunch, Bango (as similar services in place for BlackBerry AppWorld, Opera’s mobile store, and Google Play, and Amazon will follow suit shortly.
Bango said the Facebook service will be expanded to other countries during the rest of the year, claiming that its payment platform delivers an average conversion rate of 77 percent, compared with 40 percent for conventional operator billing.
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