I received an email a few days ago, from one of the readers of this blog. I have reproduced the entire message below, and edited it a bit for the sake of clarity: Hi, I have been looking for how to accept payment online in Nigeria, without necessarily going through Interswitch. I have been reading [...]

Not long after Google announced and launched their Google Checkout offering that Paypal increased the speed at which they introduced innovations. I dealt more with the Google/Paypal comparison in an earlier post. The essence of this post however, is to highlight the fact that some online shoppers would by far prefer using the checkout services, [...]

This blog post is a direct response to Erik Hersman’s blog post: The problem with e-commerce and online payments in Africa. Erik Hersman, a fellow African blogger, shared his thoughts about the need for an African e-payment system. He starts with a lamentation that is indeed true: A lack of true online payment options is [...]

One can argue that Google Checkout is not exactly a competitor to Paypal, since they are not exactly the same. Google Checkout speeds up your checkout process while Paypal is a complete online payment system. To me, the mere fact that Google Checkout makes online shopping faster (by auto-filling your shipping address and making payment [...]

I came across an article at NigeriaGalleria.com just now, that not only highlights some of the challenges of doing business online from Nigeria, but also offers some solid advice on going around the challenges. It’s titled: “Obstacles to Conducting Internet Business in Nigeria“. These obstacles vary from the poor electricity supply in Nigeria, to the [...]

In case you missed the news just like I did, be informed that e-gold Ltd, operators of the e-gold digital currency, now have an official blog at http://blog.e-gold.com and its blogger so far is their Chairman/Founder: Dr. Douglas Jackson. The closing text of the very first blog entry, read: Anyone remotely familiar with e-gold knows [...]

Google has launched its online payment processing service, using the name “Google Checkout“. The name has completely swerves speculations that it would be called Gbuy, GPay, etc and is quite similar to 2Checkout. Unlike other Google services that start in a BETA (testing) form, Google Checkout is completely tested and functional. I wouldn’t trust my [...]