ClickandBuy Expands North American Operation to San Jose.

NEW YORK & SAN JOSE, Calif. -- ClickandBuy, a hosted ePayments provider for digital content and services, today announced the expansion of its U.S.-based operation with a new office in San Jose, CA. The office is located at 2033 Gateway Place, Suite 520 San Jose, CA 95110 and the phone number is [phone].

ClickandBuy, which was founded in 1999, receives thousands of new registrations each month and offers over 45 preferred local and national payment methods worldwide. ClickandBuy's hosted e-Commerce platform allows merchants to outsource all or some of their back office or payments processing functions to ClickandBuy.

Merchants use ClickandBuy for payment processing as well as critical back office functions, which include, multicurrency capabilities, fraud detection, live customer care, eCommerce consultations and various billing options. ClickandBuy processes, handles and manages digital, paid and web-based content for games, songs, movies, streaming video, podcasts, VoIP calls, television and publishing.

An electronic money institution that is regulated by the Financial Services Authority in Europe, ClickandBuy offers a wide variety of services and features, which combines the financial security of the banking world with the speed and agility of the Internet.

Through ClickandBuy, merchants instantly gain access to new markets, giving them the ability to expand their own market share. In Europe, for example, there are literally a hundred different payment methods with each country having about four or five different payment procedures. Merchants wishing to enter the European market have trouble negotiating with all the different payment companies within each European country, but ClickandBuy can integrate across 23 European countries, North and South America with one interface.

Many brand names utilize ClickandBuy for digital payments, including Apple iTunes, Skype, Electronic Arts' EA Link, Habbo Hotel, AOL, iVillage and SanDisk.

"Our new office space meets the needs of our company's fast growth and testament to our growing market share in the United States. The San Jose office is another positive step for ClickandBuy an important milestone for us as we grow our business worldwide," said Norbert Stangl, CEO of ClickandBuy.

About ClickandBuy

The company helps merchants from all over the world increase their eCommerce revenues related to digital content and services. The ClickandBuy platform is an ASP that offers many services such as over 40 different payment methods, fraud detection and live customer care. More than 7,000 online merchants are successfully using ClickandBuy worldwide. In the last year ClickandBuy has received major investments, including $23M from 3i (ww.3i.com), a 10% position taken by Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile Venture fund and an investment from Intel Capital.