EANS-News: asknet AG / asknet partners with Klarna to offer new payment methods for Scandinavia

- Klarna offers smart payment modes that have been used for eight
million transactions and a transaction volume of 500 million euros
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Approximately 5,500 Internet shops use Klarna’s services; over 1.8
million consumers have used Klarna’s payment options to shop online

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Subtitle: - Klarna offers smart payment modes that have been used for
eight million transactions and a transaction volume of 500 million
euros - Approximately 5,500 Internet shops use Klarna’s services;
over 1.8 million consumers have used Klarna’s payment options to shop
online

Karlsruhe (euro adhoc) - Karlsruhe, March 31, 2010 - asknet AG, which
recently was ranked as one of Germany´s fastest-growing technology
companies in Deloitte´s "Technology Fast 50" report, today announces
its partnership with Klarna AB, a Swedish financial services
institute.

Since the company was founded in 2005, Klarna has become one of
Scandinavia´s market leaders in payment solutions for eCommerce.
Today Klarna has a presence in Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark,
Germany and Holland and boasts annual sales revenues of 20 million
euros. To date eight million transactions have been processed,
representing a transaction volume of 500 million euros each year.
Approximately 5,500 online shops utilize Klarna's services, among
them Scandinavian giants CDON, Dustinhome, and Nelly.

Klarna stands for innovative payment options that make shopping on
the Internet easier and more secure. "Klarna Invoicing" is a
user-friendly, secure service that makes it possible for customers to
shop at any time and buy what they want, paying by invoice after
receiving their purchases.

Another option is to pay by installment using "Klarna Account."
Customers shop online using Klarna Invoicing, their orders are
delivered to them, and all online purchases are then consolidated
onto a single invoice at the end of the month. The customer can
choose to pay the entire amount at once or to pay off a part of the
total each month.

"We are pleased that our partnership with Klarna will allow us to
offer a proven and highly popular payment option for the Scandinavian
market," says Ute Koehler, Vice President of Business Operations at
asknet AG. "Klarna is the perfect partner for asknet and supports our
philosophy of offering end customers in our eShops user-friendly and
secure payment methods that are in line with the requirements of the
local market. With Klarna´s services, we will boost customer
satisfaction in our Scandinavian eShops - and we also expect the
improved shopping experience to be reflected in higher conversion
rates."

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 the number two
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. In
2009 the Karlsruhe company was named in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
"Technology Fast 50" ranking of the fastest-growing technology firms
in Germany. asknet´s clients include numerous providers of specialty
software such as CollabNet, DivX, F-Secure, Nero, Panda Security,
Steganos, and NetObjects. The company also supplies software products
to around eighty percent of German universities. Further information
is available from www.asknet.com.

Press Contacts
asknet AG
Kirsten Neininger
phone: +49 (0)721.96458-6399
eMail: kirsten.neininger@asknet.com

asknet, Inc.
Bernard Haug
Phone: +1 (415) 352-2622
eMail: bernard.haug@asknet.com

www.asknet.com

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Further inquiry note:

Kirsten Neininger

Corporate Marketing Manager

Telefon: +49 (0) 721 96 458 6399

e-mail: kirsten.neininger@asknet.de

Branche: Electronic Commerce
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