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"Opera has announced a partnership with mobile payments specialist Neomobile today, which will bring its one-click operator billing platform to the company\u2019s Opera Payment Exchange (OPX) service.\r\n\r\nThe deal has been struck through Opera Commerce, a fully-owned subsidiary of Opera Software, who launched the payments service on the Opera Mini browser at Mobile World Congress last year. Today's announcement also follows the news that more than 208 million people\u00A0used the Opera Mini app last month.\r\n\r\nOPX acts &amp;quot;as a glue&amp;quot; between content providers, publishers and mobile billing systems, making payments secure and simple on the Opera Mini browser. Neomobile, on the other hand, is a mobile payments solution company but also a global mobile commerce group, offering mobile users content in partnership with carriers, digital content producers and services.\r\n\r\nThe partnership announced today, at least to begin with, affects only the company\u2019s mobile commerce group arm. It means that users will be able to purchase games, music, video and other content in eleven different countries through one-click, direct carrier billing on the Opera Mini browser.\r\n\r\nFounded in 2007, Neomobile is headquartered in Rome with additional offices in London, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Reus, Sao Paulo, Beograd, Istanbul, Berlin, San Francisco, Ciudad De M\u00E9xico and Mumbai.\r\n\r\nGianluca D\u2019Agostino, CEO of Neomobile, says the next step will be to integrate the company\u2019s mobile payment service, called Onebip, in the 70 countries where it has direct connections with mobile operators. &amp;quot;[This will] let merchants and other media companies make the most of all the ways to monetize their services through the Opera Mini browser,\u201D he said.\r\n\r\nSameer Merchant, President of Opera Commerce added: \u201COpera strives to work with partners like Neomobile to strengthen the mobile-payment ecosystem for Opera Mini users through OPX. One by one, we want to partner with premium mobile-payment service providers like Neomobile to give the convenience of mobile payments to our Opera Mini users.\u201D\r\n\r\nOpera Mini is growing in popularity, so it makes sense for the company to focus on its own dedicated mobile payments solution. The firm revealed earlier this month that more than 208 million people were using the Opera Mini app to access the Internet in December 2012. Combined with Opera Mobile, the firm\u2019s alternative app, that figures rises to 229 million.\u00A0In total, it means that over 143 billion pages were produced over the four-week period, up 39 percent from the same month in 2011.\r\n\r\nImage via Flickr / andyket"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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