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Virtual Piggy Facilitates Mobile Chilli Payments

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 08/28/2013

Virtual Piggy will provide its youth-friendly payment system to Mobile Chilli, empowering Mobile Chilli to offer a more secure and complete customer service for their U18 users. Mobile Chilli is a leading and trusted provider of mobile content, offering ringtones from top artists, mobile games, and over six million music tracks for download. They offer scores of excellent content thanks to partnerships with Universal Music, Sony, EMI, Warner Music and game companies. Their service is acclaimed for being fully transparent and having no subscriptions required. Virtual Piggy promotes financial management while empowering youth under 18 to make purchasing, saving and other money management decisions for themselves, within the boundaries setup by parents.

Kidlandia to Integrate Virtual Piggy E-Commerce Solution

7, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 04/23/2012

Virtual Piggy announced its youth-friendly purchasing service to the fantasyland building site Kidlandia, an online virtual world that provides children with a magical place to learn as they enjoy creating and exploring their own personal kingdoms, and their software is licensed by Snapfish, Walmart and Walgreens for social merchandise. Kidlandia users will be able to purchase virtual goods, games and other items in its store with the Virtual Piggy payment option in a secure COPPA compliant way. Virtual Piggy’s online payment solution is parent approved and managed. When making purchases through Virtual Piggy, children do not share any personal information making it completely COPPA compliant and TRUSTe certified.

Virtual Piggy CEO to Speak at Gaming Conference

8, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 04/12/2012

Virtual Piggy, an innovator in safe online youth purchasing, announced that CEO and Founder Dr. Jo Webber will join Xsolla, PayPal, Google and others in a panel discussion about micropayments in the gaming industry at the 2012 LA Games Conference. The panel, titled “Delivering the Virtual Goods: How Is the Micropayments Business Evolving for Games”…

Virtual Piggy Execs To Speak At Game Developers Conference

7, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 03/01/2012

Dr. Jo Webber, Chair and Founder of Virtual Piggy, an innovator in safe online youth purchasing, and Pradeep Ittycheria, Co-Founder, announced that they would join Albert Donahue, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Xsolla (an in-game payment solutions company specializing in online games) in a panel discussion at the 2012 Game Developers Conference. The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event. The panel is titled “Like, OMG: Reaching Tweens & Teens (Presented by Xsolla)” and will provide attendees with insight in to how to effectively reach tweens and teens in games, and how to gain parents’ trust in the process.

VirtualPiggy Available to eBay Merchants

9, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 10/11/2011

Virtual Piggy has completed the integration of its “VirtualPiggy” solution into eBay’s “Magento” platform. The “Magento” platform is part of the “X.Commerce” framework from eBay. This gives merchants on the “X.Commerce” framework access to ” VirtualPiggy.” Virtual Piggy delivers a technology platform designed for the management of the Under 18 age group in the global online market with technology allowing online businesses to function in a manner consistent with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and similar international children’s privacy laws.

Propell to Integrate Moggle Payment System to Online Service

9, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 06/15/2011

Moggle online payment processing for secure transactions between the youth market and online merchants, announced Propell Corporation has agreed to implement the “Virtual Piggy” payment platform as part of its “instant ecommerce” system for K-12 schools. Propell provides online shops and order fulfillment for thousands of K-12 schools, universities, businesses, nonprofits and the U.S. military nationwide and manufactures product on-demand for each shop, so there is no inventory or risk for the partner.

Bill My Parents Inks Another Contract

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 11/30/2009

Socialwise and Offerpal Media have entered into a strategic
partnership with virtual currency monetization solution provider
Offerpal Media that will feature the “Bill My Parents” alternative payment solution
The two companies will work together to promote their existing payment
solutions, as well as develop new payment programs specifically for the
teen and tween market. Offerpal will feature BillMyParents on its
proprietary monetization platform as an alternate payment solution
alongside Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and others, providing teens and
tweens with an easy way to acquire virtual currency across Offerpalâs
network of 2,000+ publishers. The virtual currency will be spent on
items such as virtual gifts, subscriptions, game-play upgrades, and
other virtual goods. BillMyParents and Offerpal will also collaborate to launch innovative
programs that will expand their reach into the teen and tween online
payment solutions market.

iCanBuy

5, Country, Priority, UNITED STATESBy Robert McKinley 11/19/1999

An alternative payment system for teen and kid shoppers got a big lift yesterday. San Francisco-based iCanBuy.com, an online money management site for teens and kids, announced this morning the launch of on-site payment in conjunction with Pacific Sunwear’s web site. This is the first time that a teen- and kid-specific payment system will be completely integrated into a retailer’s e-commerce site. Effective today, teens and kids can go straight to the Pacific Sunwear website, fill a shopping cart and then check out using their iCanBuy account. They simply click on iCanBuy when presented with payment options and enter their ID and password in a secure pop-up box. iCanBuy.com enables young people to shop at top Internet retailers, establish a payment option, build a ‘WishList’ of gift items, bank and donate online, all with a parental approval system. iCanBuy has over 40 retail, financial, charity and community partners including eToys; AlloyOnline; Outpost.com; Whutever.com by Fingerhut; and Security First Network Bank.

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