Billeo Launches First Service to Present Shopping Discounts and Rewards within Search Results of Google, Yahoo! and Bing.Billeo's Offer Assistant[TM] Presents Discounts from More Than 360 Retailers Including Target, Best Buy, Nike Nike (nī`kē), in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of victory, daughter of Pallas and Styx. Often an attendant of Zeus or Athena, she also presided over all contests, athletic as well as military. , and Leading Card Loyalty Programs from Visa, American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. and UPside Upside The potential dollar amount by which the market or a stock could rise. Notes: This is basically an educated guess on how high a stock could go in the near future. See also: Bull, Downside Prepaid pre·pay tr.v. pre·paid, pre·pay·ing, pre·pays To pay or pay for beforehand. pre·pay  ment n.
NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Finovate 2009 Conference -- Billeo, Inc., the provider of the leading personal finance application that helps consumers pay bills and shop online, today announced the launch of the Offer Assistant, a patent-pending, free service that for the first time, delivers real time shopping discounts and rewards directly to the consumer within their unsponsored search engine results. Billeo also announced a partnership with UPside Visa Prepaid Card that offers consumers redeemable Redeemable Eligible for redemption under the terms of an indenture. points for purchases made with their card. By working with financial institutions such as Visa and American Express, Billeo is able to provide merchant offers from over 360 retailers including Target, Best Buy, Nike and discounts and rewards affiliated with any financial institution's loyalty program and present those offers when a shopper is searching to purchase online. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. ComScore, 70% of all online purchases start with a search, so the Offer Assistant allows consumers to search and purchase naturally online without having to remember to go back to a bank web site, or check email for discounts and rewards. "Today, people spend a lot of time searching for great shopping deals online," said Murali Subbarao, Founder & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Billeo, Inc. "Offer Malls set up by banks, card-issuers, and associations require the consumer to shop directly at their site. And coupon codes found in one-off e-mail newsletters sent by banks and card issuers can get lost in email clutter. Billeo's Offer Assistant is the first application that brings discounts and rewards to you when you actually need them--when you're searching for something to buy online, or when you are at the checkout page. This gives financial institutions, card issuers and online retailers the ability to react to the consumer actions in real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , influencing both the purchase and the payment mechanism used. It's the first sense-and-respond service of its kind." With Billeo's Offer Assistant, consumers searching for an item online are presented with icons indicating that a discount or several discounts are available for that item. This now gives the consumer the ability to evaluate and choose discounts and rewards from banks, financial institutions and online merchants in one place within the main, unsponsored search results of the three most popular search engines: Google (Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com) The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method (explained below). .com, Yahoo.com or Bing.com. Furthermore, if a coupon code or a specific payment card has to be used on the checkout page, the Offer Assistant will remember to prompt the user during checkout, and assist in filling the coupon code. The Offer Assistant is the only service that presents discounts and rewards that are already available to a consumer through their various loyalty affiliations and presents them at the most relevant and natural moment--in the search and shopping process. "At a time when consumers need to stretch their dollars further, it is important to make it easier for them to benefit from compelling merchant offers without requiring them to remember the Internet addresses There are two kinds of addresses that are widely used on the Internet. One is a person's e-mail address, and the other is the address of a Web site, which is known as a URL. Following is an explanation of Internet e-mail addresses only. For more on URLs, see URL and Internet domain name. of offer portals," said Patrice Peyret, Founder & CEO of Plastyc which manages the UPside Visa Prepaid Card program. "Our cardholders look for products by initiating a search with one of the mainstream Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the search engines, and just follow the links to the results. With Billeo's Offer Assistant, now our cardholders will be able to take advantage of the rich offers that we make available from over 200 mainstream online merchants." The Offer Assistant joins Billeo's multi-faceted Assistant Suite that helps consumers with every aspect of the online transaction process. Billeo's Password Assistant automatically logs the consumer in to a merchant site with their saved ID and password, and with Billeo's Shopping Assistant, the consumer's shipping, billing and payment details are automatically filled in during the purchase process. Billeo's Splendid Search allows consumers to search for the electronic receipt of their online purchase by name, date, purchase price, etc. With Billeo, payments are directed to billing company and shopping websites, payments are instantaneous in·stan·ta·ne·ous adj. 1. Occurring or completed without perceptible delay: Relief was instantaneous. 2. , and electronic receipts are automatically captured, saved and filed. Billeo's award-winning solution for managing and tracking bill payments and online purchases recently received the Editor's Choice award and a Four Star rating from PC Magazine. Billeo also won the 2009 CODiE Award for "Best eCommerce Solution" from the Software & Information Industry Association. Billeo is available at no charge at www.billeo.com. Billeo service is featured at over 40 of the top U.S.-based financial institutions, including: Visa, Discover, US Bank, Wells Fargo Wells Fargo armored carriers of bullion. [Am. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1147] See : Protectiveness Wells Fargo company that handled express service to western states; often robbed. [Am. Hist. , and NetSpend. About Billeo Inc. Billeo gives consumers a fast, easy and intelligent way to exercise choice and control over their online purchases and payments. Billeo functions as the catalyst to make online purchases and bill paying as easy and financially rewarding as possible. Billeo was founded by experts from the EBPP (Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment) Sending invoices to customers over the Internet. When payment is due, an e-mail is sent with a link to a Web page that contains the billing information and the payment services that are supported. , card issuer, banking, ecommerce and technology industries. Over 40 banks, 6 of the top ten card issuers and over 9,000 companies across 26 categories are part of the trusted Billeo network. For more information about Billeo visit www.billeo.com. About the Finovate Conference The Finovate conference is the first demo-based conference for the financial, banking and lending technology industries. Held annually in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , the conference offers a chance to explore the future of finance in a fast-paced and intimate environment. Finovate is organized by Online Financial Innovations. For more information please visit www.Finovate.com About Plastyc Plastyc, Inc. is a privately held US corporation focused on payment-enabling the "Millenials" generation in a responsible manner. Its first product is the UPside Visa Prepaid Card, a new generation of cards with low fees and unprecedented online access through websites, cell phones and a Facebook application. The UPside Visa Prepaid Card is issued by MetaBank. For more information visit http://www.plastyc.com/. |
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