Visa Inc (V.N), the world's largest credit and debit card processing network, will buy the online payments company PlaySpan Inc for $190 million, continuing to expand its e-commerce and mobile payments businesses. The cash deal will also include "additional consideration for performance milestones," Visa said on Wednesday. It is expected to be completed in Visa's second fiscal quarter of 2011, and will be "slightly dilutive" to the company's full-year earnings per share. Visa, like smaller rival MasterCard Inc (MA.N), is increasingly looking online and to new payment processing technology like mobile phone payments for growth. The companies are facing a saturated U.S. market, where most consumers already use credit and debit cards instead of cash, and increasing regulation of their traditional businesses. [ID:nN02215315]
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