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Paypal in hot water with indie developer
Most of the contributions to Lab Zero's IndieGoGo campaign were paid via PayPal, but given the size of the amount, Paypal wanted the Skullgirls developers to "take on the risk" if a large number of backers decided not to actually pledge. -
Reuters social media editor wanted for hacking
He claimed to have learned of attacks on the Tribune's Los Angeles Times, eBay's PayPal and other companies and two days later, a story on Latimes.com was defaced. -
Grim DNS bug still alive and well
These include Comcast, Data Mountain, Infoblox, PayPal and Sprint. Dyncorp, Simon Property and Juniper Networks have done so partly. -
Pirates sue banks for discrimination
Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and numerous financial institutions blocked donations to WikiLeaks and other legal operations since 2010. -
British Anonymous hackers grilled in court
The group brought down websites belonging to PayPal and Mastercard under 'Operation Payback'. According to the | Daily Mail Southwark Crown Court heard how Northampton University student Christopher Weatherhead, 22, who used the online handle 'Nerdo', played an 'integral role' in the attacks. -
European Parliament gets behind the Pirate Party
MEP Christian Engström said that it was not reasonable that Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal can shut Swedish entrepreneurs out from trading online when they sell horror movies or sex toys, just because the payment providers are scared of fundamentalist moralism. -
Anonymous sets web alight in 5 November protests
Hacking collective Anonymous has started the action it pledged for the 5th November, targeting Australian government websites and big hitters such as PayPal. -
Android apps let down Google's security
The researchers said that they could gather bank account information, payment credentials for PayPal, American Express and others. -
Apple losing battle with hacker
As you might guess this was pretty silly as Borodin's fans simply replaced it. Since the hack works by placing Borodin's server in between the device and Apple, Jobs' Mob blocked the IP address of the server used by Borodin to implement the hack, and convinced the host in Russia to shut down his ser -
Ballmer buys into Yammer
It is backed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, who also invested in Facebook. Vole has connections with Facebook and it is starting to look like there is a small cabal of companies which Microsoft is reeling in. -
Yahoo CEO in hot water over tech qualifications
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, former president of PayPal, is facing allegations that he lied about his tech credentials to make himself appear more qualified for the job. -
Yahoo relies on PR spin to save it
Thompson, a former PayPal executive credited with driving growth at eBay's payments division, has picked up the deck at Yahoo, shuffled the company structure and divided it into three piles. -
Yahoo faces blood in the boardroom
Thompson, a former president of PayPal and Yahoo's fourth CEO in five years, is preparing for a massive re-organisation that could come within weeks and could result in layoffs of several thousand of its roughly 13,000 employees and kill entire business lines. -
Paypal enters mobile payments
PayPal has entered the mobile payments area by producing a new device that helps businesses accept credit and debit cards via mobile devices. -
Yahoo plans layoffs
CEO Scott Thompson, the former PayPal president who took the top job at Yahoo in January recently hired the Boston Consulting Group to come up with ideas to sort the business out. -
Book publishers censored by Paypal
CommentHe said that PayPal was hardwired into Smashwords. It runs the credit card processing for its retail store, and was how it paid its authors and publishers. PayPal is also an extremely popular, trusted payment option for his customers. -
Yahoo and Alibaba deal about to collapse
Yahoo lost a fifth of its revenue last year and brought in former PayPal President Scott Thompson as chief executive in January, but the falling through of the Alibaba deal appears to have happened on his watch. -
New Yahoo boss admits that things are bleak
Wall Street appears to be willing to give the former PayPal president some breathing room to settle in and figure out a strategy.
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