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• Business 04 May 09:55

  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.
• Business 11 Apr 10:03

  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.
• Business 22 Mar 07:46

  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.
• Mobile 16 Mar 09:58

  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.
• Business 06 Mar 08:10

  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.
• Business 29 Feb 08:17

  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.
• Business 15 Feb 09:43

  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.
• Business 25 Jan 07:32

  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.
• Business 05 Jan 11:11

  Yahoo names Paypal boss as new CEO

  PayPal President Scott Thompson has been named as the new CEO of Yahoo.
• Security 24 Oct 14:43

  Wikileaks stops publishing

  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said that since last December an "arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade" had been imposed by Bank of America, Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and Western Union and this wiped out more than 95 percent of the outfit's revenue.
• Security 29 Jul 11:27

  iPhones and iPads vulnerable to nine year old flaw

  Wisniewski confirmed the bug by using a legitimate certificate for his own website to create a valid certificate for Paypal. He could have intercepted others' iOS-generated traffic to the real PayPal site and steal their usernames and passwords.
• Security 27 Jul 13:14

  Paypal gives FBI shopping list of 1,000 hackers

  According to WIred the online financial outfit is no friend of Anomymous and collected 1000 IP addresses of those carrying out Anonymous' DDoS attacks against PayPal last December.
• Internet 20 Jul 11:26

  Alleged Anonymous activists arrested

  According to the Wall Street Journal, British and Dutch police have also arrested five people, together. The charges relate to attacks on PayPal last year, responding to its decision to block Wikileaks donations.
• Security 06 Jul 08:55

  Hackers take control of Paypal's Twitter

  Hackers gained control of a PayPal Twitter feed for more than an hour on Tuesday, then sent out messages slamming the payment processor.
• Business 27 May 07:46

  Google stole our secrets

  LawOnline auctioneer Ebay and its online payment unit, PayPal have accused Google and two executives for nicking its trade secrets
• Software 22 Apr 10:28

  Linux falls to patent troll

  Bedrock Computer Technologies looks set to use the ruling to bring down some big names in the Linux community including Yahoo, MySpace, Amazon, PayPal, Match.com and AOL
• Business 28 Mar 16:43

  Ebay bids for and wins GSI Commerce

  The company plans to combine GSI with Ebay Marketplaces and PayPal, to help it benefit
• Business 18 Mar 11:36

  Two go after Apple and Paypal's one-click patent infringement

  Likewise, PayPal is allegedly infringing through its "Check-out with PayPal" purchasing platform, says the plaintiff. Victoria's Secret's "1-step express checkout functionality" is similar and equally damaging.

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