Facebook Quietly Tightens Its PayPal Payout Policy, Now Requires Extra ID In Countries Like China, Brazil, India, And Israel

facebook-money-360As Facebook continues to build out the App Center and its overall business as a platform for third parties, it’s also tightening up how payment policies work within it. In one of the latest moves, the company has changed how it pays out to PayPal accounts for new (not existing) developers who select that option. Specifically, Facebook now requires extra levels of authentication for new developers from certain countries, including large, emerging markets like China, India, Brazil but also some mature countries such as Australia, Japan and Norway.

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Twilio & Parse Launch Cloud Module To Bring Scalable Back-End Support, Telephony Services To Mobile Developers

twilio-logo-6a141664f35a78e9ac08eed627c2a859Twilio was founded four years ago with the goal of creating a scalable API that would provide developers with an easy way to add SMS and calling tools to their applications. The company has grown quickly over the last two years and is now servicing 40 countries and has signed on over 250K developers. Its international development took another step forward last month, when it broke into Japan with an exclusive deal with KDDI telecom, which is now selling Twilio’s cloud communications APIs to developers — which followed on the heels of a deal signed with AT&T in October.

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