Alipay charges the fee: The new model or lead to major changes in the industry
Followed by the fee-charging for external business in April 2007, Alipay Company announced to charge a certain percentage of the cost of services on January 1, 2009 and pledged to continue to free for the ordinary users.
What is a big customer? That is, in the alipay website, the alipay user who uses “I want to pay”, “I want to receive” function and “Ali Wang-wang” “AA receivables” function, the authentication user enjoys 5,000 yuan per month of free Trade flows, while the excess of the amount needs to charge 1.5 percent service expense, whereas the non- authentication user enjoys 500 yuan free flow of trade. However, the ordinary people who trade in website continue to enjoy the free service.
Alipay charges service fee from large amounts of personal business, which is the span business model of profitability. It means the mature and perfect of platform. Currently, the internet payment platforms compete seriously. Alipay surges the new wave of charge.
Yu Bin: Alipay charges the service fee, could Alipay get the heart of people?
Alipay begins to charge the service fee, which surge the uproar in the industry. Many users do not understand that, but I think alipay is force to do that, now the condition that credit card cashes out has been intensified. Especially after the spread of the media, more people understand the another purpose of alipay. Due to the POS machine set at least 2.5 percent of the fees, while the alipay needn’t pay the commission charge. Therefore, more and more people are using the alipay.
Some third-party payment tools accordingly:
Tenpay: free of charge, different banks will arrive in different times, generally 1-10 days.
Baifubao: free of charge, Baifubao suggest using ICBC or China Merchants Bank, as the cash withdrawal in Agricultural Bank and Construction Bank is always failed, general 1-3 days.
99bill: Withdraw the cash into your own bank account 3 yuan/times; pay the money into the bank account of other people, the commission charge yuan/times.
3G America survey shows that: the world’s mobile phone users has reached 4.0 billion
BEIJING, on Dec. 29th, according to Xinhua Taiwan’s “Commercial Times” it was reported that market research agency, 3GAmerica said until the end of this year, the world’s mobile phone users had reached 4 billion, which was equivalent to 60% of the world’s population who through mobile phone contact with each other, and Peru, Brazil and the Caribbean in new user growth rate has at least more than 16%.
The United States’ part of the AT & T mobile phone users, as a result of power failures, were interrupted signals
NEW YORK on Dec. 29th, according to foreign media report, as a result of power outages occurred in Michigan, the United States in many central and western regions, the AT & T mobile phone users on 28th suffered from signal interruption for most of the time. AT & T spokesman Meghan Roskopf, said by e-mail, Bloomfield, in Michigan area around 9:30 am on 28th, power failure resulted in a number of central and western states of intermittent cell phone service interrupted. The specific reasons for power failures did not know.
Chinese, Japanese and Korean operators: the world economy should be the resumption until the first half of 2010
Xinhua in Tokyo on December 29th, according to Xinhua, “Japanese Economic News” Web site’s the latest news, Nihon Keizai Shimbun and China, South Korea’s major economic medias co-conducted the “Chinese, Japanese and Korean operators survey” to show that the recognition of “the world economy to resume growth until the first half of 2010,” as a view of the operators, accounted for the largest share.
In New York development projects with 5 billion U.S. dollars “moved forward” as a result of the economic crisis
BEIJING, Dec. 29th, according to in Singapore, “Lianhe Zaobao” it was reported that in New York 50 billion dollars in development projects, because of the present economic crisis, had been postponed or canceled, so the city’s geomorphic in next two years was to remain unchanged. The construction industry can be said to be in New York City in the past 20 years, an important economic pillar, and in last year the field created economic value of 30 billion U.S. dollars, and its long-term halt in New York was to have a major impact on the economy.
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