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"Stripe is launching its online payment processing service in Germany as a private beta today, expanding the number of developers that can use the platform to accept card transactions on the Web.\r\n\r\nThe company teased the news over on its Twitter account a little earlier:\r\nSch\u00F6nen guten Morgen! We're sending our first invites to the Stripe Germany beta. You can sign up at https://t.co/0SS4UXckJj.\r\n\r\n\u2014 Stripe (@stripe) August 27, 2013\r\nIt follows a similar private beta launch in Australia last week \u2013 the company's first expansion into the Asia-Pacific region \u2013 as well as a full roll-out in the UK that kicked off back in March.\r\n\r\nAt the moment Stripe is also available as a private beta in Belgium, France, Ireland and the Netherlands; the service is open to everyone in the United States and Canada too.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Stripe (via Hacker News)\r\n\r\nImage Credit:\u00A0PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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