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1 hr ago | GigaOM

PayPal rolls out barcode payments in the UK

EBay's CEO John Donahoe has called 2012 a year of testing and learning for PayPal's in-store payments as it gears up for a big push next year.

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Related Topix: Startups, Android

5 hrs ago | Business Journal

PayPal to be accepted at 15 major retail chains

PayPal Inc. is expanding its push beyond the Web with the addition of 15 retailers that will accept the online payment system in stores, Columbus Business First reports .

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Related Topix: Startups, PayPal, Home Depot, Retail, Household Products, Hunch

Tue May 29, 2012

TheStreet.com

Apple Shines, HP and Dell Struggle

I don't understand the fascination with Meg Whitman. Has Whitman turned around a large company before? Isn't this her first attempt to take a major corporation under duress and turn it into a market leader? Yes, I know eBay's Every conversation about HP's turnaround includes Whitman's success at eBay.

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Related Topix: Hunch, Startups

The Columbus Dispatch

PayPal arranges deals with 15 retailers

Online? On the go? An exact replica of The Dispatch, the E-Edition is available 24/7 on your PC or iPAD.

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Related Topix: eBay, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Abercrombie and Fitch, Retail, Apparel, Startups, Internet, Science / Technology

Mon May 28, 2012

Createdigitalmusic.com

Synths Versus Real Primates: So Easy, a Monkey Can Play Them? A Zoo Finds Out

Composer and Swedish dance music maestro HA kan Libdo has been a constant source of experimentation.

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Related Topix: Hunch, Startups, Magento, South America, World News, Brazil, Entomology, Science

Charleston Daily Mail

Food stamp fraud has hit the Internet now

Food stamps have evolved into swipe cards - EBT in the parlance of the government bureaucracy - that electronically dole out benefits.

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Related Topix: Hunch, Startups, Craigslist, Agriculture, Science, Opinion

Sat May 26, 2012

ITworld

The 5 best online marketplaces for selling handmade goods

Ebay is huge and Etsy is targeted, but we've found several awesome alternatives for marketing custom and vintage merchandise Once upon a time, it was considered insane to compete against eBay.

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Related Topix: eBay, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Hunch, Startups, Marketing

Daily Disruption

PayPal Now Marketing In-Store Payments to Consumers

PayPal Inc. says 15 retailers, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Office Depot and Jamba Juice, are adding its online payment system in their stores.

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Related Topix: Startups, PayPal, Office Equipment, Office Depot, Abercrombie and Fitch, Retail, Apparel, Marketing, Hunch

Fri May 25, 2012

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Facebook and Groupon Lead Social Media Stocks in Action

Facebook, Inc. is back to selling off following some ups and downs yesterday and Capstone Investments starting coverage with a Hold .

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Groupon, Financial Markets, e-dialog, GSI Technology

Seeking Alpha

Shareholders Are Disrobing Talbots

AMZN , BFLY , CSOAF.PK , EBAY , EXPE , FB , FLWS , GOOG , GRPN , NFLX , NILE , NTRI , OSTK , OWW , PCLN , PETS , PRTS , SFLY , STMP , UNTD , VITC , VPRT As an M&A investment banker focused on the retail sector, and creator of the Web-only Retail Index, a diverse group of constituents have asked me to comment on today's official word from Talbots ... (more)

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Related Topix: Retail, Apparel, Talbots, Hunch, Startups, Google

Wired

Is HP's Autonomy the Worst Place to Work on the Planet?

It was the $10 billion acquisition that helped sink Leo Apotheker. Larry Ellison called it overpriced.

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Related Topix: Autonomy, Computers, Lawrence Ellison, Startups, Glassdoor

DVDCreation Reviews

GENWI Selected as a Red Herring Top 100 North America Tech Startup

Red Herring's Top 100 Americas list has become a mark of distinction for identifying promising new companies and entrepreneurs.

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Related Topix: GENWI, Startups, Red Herring, Magento

CNN

Best of StockTwits: Investors in a $TIF

Tiffany is showing that diamonds are not an investor's best friend. And eBay's deal to get PayPal to be used on VeriFone Systems cash registers gets little love from traders.

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Related Topix: Startups, PayPal, VeriFone Systems

MacLife

Thursday Recap: Facebook Camera, T-Mobile USA, PayPal Nets 12 Retailers

Laugh if you want, but we love Jamba Juice. We also happen to rather like PayPal, which makes it easy to spend the money we make selling our old junk on eBay that would be otherwise cluttering the house.

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Related Topix: Startups, PayPal, Facebook, Social Software, eBay, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Hunch

Thu May 24, 2012

Daily Mail

SECOND 'Lego swindler changed bar codes on Star Wars kits and sold them on eBay at 900% mark-up'

A second man in California has been charged for allegedly scamming Lego buyers on eBay after purchasing pricey Star Wars kits from Target stores and then selling them on the bidding website for 900% of the purchase price.

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Related Topix: e-dialog, Hunch, Startups, GSI Technology, Magento

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Late Radar: BlackRock Ups CHK Stake, VeriFone Crashes 9%

After closing 3.25 percent higher during regular trading, Chesapeake Energy Corp.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, BlackRock, Investment Services, Blackrock Income Trust, Chesapeake Energy, Energy, Oil & Gas, Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley, VeriFone Systems, Startups

Reuters

UPDATE 1-PayPal strikes deals with 15 retailers

PayPal unveiled deals with 15 retailers including Toys R Us, J C Penney and Barnes & Noble, helping the online payment giant expand into more physical stores.

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Related Topix: Startups

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Are eBay's Biggest Institutional Stockholders Buying More on Heels of Paypal Expansion?

For the year, eBay Inc.'s A shares are up 32.34 percent. On Thursday, its online payment giantA PayPal announced expansion plans to additional physical stores.

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Related Topix: Startups, VeriFone Systems

Wed May 23, 2012

ZDNet Blogs

Billions of API calls traversing Web, redefining 'software'

APIs are quickly becoming the application glue for the Web with billions of calls per day making some companies billions of dollars per year, according to one keynote speaker at the annual Glue Conference.

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Related Topix: Hunch, Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Google, Programming Languages, Science / Technology

Free Republic

Facebook overvalued at $50 bln: Bloomberg's global poll [IBTIMES story from 1 year ago]

Sixty-nine per cent of investors say Facebook is overvalued after Goldman Sachs invested $450 million in a deal that valued the company at $50 billion, according to the quarterly poll of 1,000 Bloomberg customers who are investors, traders or analysts.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Hunch, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Morristown, NJ

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