This investment further strengthens the agreement reached between uniView and First Ecom to jointly develop and market Internet payment solutions to enable the uniView® digital set top box (STB) to process e-commerce transactions utilizing First Ecom's e-payment solutions.
"We are excited about First Ecom's investment in uniView and what it means to the development of a total e-payment solution for our set top box customers," said Patrick Custer, President and CEO of uniView Technologies. "Together we are making the availability of First Ecom Enabled set top boxes a practical solution for at-home shopping."
"This investment further illustrates our commitment to work with uniView Technologies to jointly create Internet payment solutions for e-commerce transactions conducted via set top boxes," said Harold Hutton, President and CEO of First Ecom. "This will provide yet another revenue stream and value added solution available to First Ecom Enabled banks and their merchants."
About uniView Technologies
Dallas based uniView Technologies Corp. is recognized as a global leader in digital set top box technology focusing on broadband connectivity, such as DSL. It has aggregated a unique architecture of key companies offering competencies and expertise in video on demand, set top solutions, computer telephony integration software, innovative customer care applications, e-business solutions, consulting services and interactive broadband connectivity. The companies market their products and services both domestically and internationally focusing on multi-level marketing, hospitality, utilities, banking, telecommunications and fortune 1,000 companies. uniView's four companies include Advanced Systems Group, Network America, uniView Softgen and the Products Group. More information on uniView is available at www.uniView.com.
About First Ecom
As a global provider of electronic payment processing, First Ecom provides secure, easy-to-implement and low-cost online payment processing services to banks and their merchants worldwide. Through strategic partnerships with banks, ISPs, e-commerce product suppliers, system integrators and storefront solution providers, First Ecom will process credit card transactions made over the Internet in multiple currencies, either domestically or offshore in a tax-neutral jurisdiction.
For more information, visit www.firstecom.com or contact First Ecom at +(852) 2801-5181 or by e-mail at info@firstecom.com.