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PayPal, Vistarooms Partnership for Online Payment to Hotel Bookings
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PayPal, Vistarooms Partnership for Online Payment to Hotel Bookings

Digital payment firm PayPal has a partnered with Vistarooms.com to enable foreigners travelling to India book hotels in the country. "Vistarooms.com will help us further add to the existing list of travel and tourism partners that includes OYO rooms and Makemytrip. Additionally, our seller protection programme helps merchants safeguard their online services from frauds," PayPal Director for Large Merchants in India Megha Thareja Tyagi said in a statement today. Vistarooms.com has over 1,000 hotels across India, Sri Lanka and Maldives and they will be using the automated invoicing capability of PayPal. "Our partnership with PayPal allows us to provide further payment flexibility to both local and international travellers," Vista Rooms Co-Founder Ankita Sheth said.  
Freecharge Ready To Compete With Paytm In Taxi Fare Payment
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Freecharge Ready To Compete With Paytm In Taxi Fare Payment

The taxi industry, with a potential of $7 billion to be reached by 2020( as predicted by SoftBank) has started sheltering e-payment besides cab hailing services. While everyone is familiar how Uber and Ola are striving to gain an upper hand in this sector, theres a silent battle brewing between the wallet and payment service providers Paytm (One97 Communication Pvt. Ltd) and Freecharge(owned by Snapdeal) to make the most of the taxi market. Paytm had already partnered with Uber, as it realized this great potential much before the Freecharge. It's already been accepted in many auto and taxi. Entering this market, Freecharge will enable cashless payments in at least 100,000 taxis by the end of this year. Freecharge claims to have on-boarded about 15,000 taxis already to accept cashless...