EANS-News: asknet AG / asknet Augments Global eCommerce Platform with Payment Option "MULTIBANCO" for Sales in Portugal

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Karlsruhe, San Francisco (euro adhoc) - August 24, 2011 - asknet, a
leading provider of global eCommerce solutions that increase sales
and expand markets for software and digital media companies,
announced today that it has added MULTIBANCO as a payment option to
support its customers´ sales in Portugal. With 30 percent market
share of the country´s online sales, MULTIBANCO is a must-have for
businesses expanding their eCommerce presence in this market.

MULTIBANCO, operated by Sociedade Interbancaria de Serviços
S.A.(SIBS) offers diverse payment functionalities: If a customer
wants to pay his online order via MULTIBANCO, he receives a payment
reference identifying the specific transaction. The customer then
processes the payment at any ATM supporting MULTIBANCO and the
product is automatically delivered after the transaction was
successful. Therefore the online shop provider is widely protected
against fraud.

MULTIBANCO plays a major role in the Portuguese market because of its
widespread acceptance and convenience of more than 10,000 ATMs.
Furthermore, the MULTIBANCO card can be used in more than 95% of
shops and restaurants, payphones, road tolls etc, and covers the
entire country and its banks.

- Think global, act local - asknet´s global eCommerce platform
enables businesses to develop localized eShops using different
combinations of shop languages, billing currencies, payment options
and customer service languages. Best practices show that adapting
eCommerce shopping carts and payment processes to regional habits
increase sales. With the flexible and scalable asknet eCommerce
platform, global eCommerce can be deployed within a short timeframe,
to generate sales from virtually all countries in the world.

For more information on how asknet can accelerate your online digital
media downloads internationally, please visit www.asknet.com.

about asknet: asknet offers its clients customized outsourcing
solutions for global software sales via the Internet. Founded in 1995
as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, formerly
the University of Karlsruhe), the company has become a leading
independent global provider for electronic software distribution. In
addition to its fully integrated shop solutions for software
publishers, the company develops and maintains portals for software
distribution such as softwarehouse.de, one of Europe's largest
platform for downloads of standard software. In 2010, asknet posted
sales of approximately EUR 72.7 million. asknet´s clients include
numerous providers of specialty software such as F-Secure, IS3, Nero,
NetObjects, Norman, and Panda Security. The company also supplies
software products to around eighty percent of German universities.

Further inquiry note:
Martina Oerther
Director Corporate Marketing
Tel.: +49 (0)721 96 458-6369
Email: martina.oerther@asknet.com

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company: asknet AG
Vincenz-Priessnitz-Str. 3
D-76131 Karlsruhe
phone: +49 (0)721 96 458 6369
FAX: +49 (0)721-96 45899
mail: info@asknet.de
WWW: http://www.asknet.de
sector: Electronic Commerce
ISIN: DE0005173306
indexes:
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, München, Open Market /
Entry Standard: Frankfurt
language: English