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CORANTE John Yunker is founder of Byte Level Research and author of the widely acclaimed book, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies and editor of Global By Design.

He has covered the emerging field of Web globalization for half a decade and has published a wide range of reports dedicated to best practices in Web localization and internationalization.
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September 27, 2002

Accepting payment accross borders

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Posted by John Yunker

Accepting payments in other currencies is a never-ending headache for companies, particularly small businesses. And although credit cards provide a nice alternative, many Europeans have yet to embrace them.

So PayPal will soon allow you to transfer money in Euros, Canadian dollars -- even Yen. You can read more here.

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