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Yahoo Names PayPal Prez Scott Thompson CEO

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January 4th 2012
Author
Brian LaRue

ADOTAS – Today, Yahoo named Scott Thompson, current president of PayPal, as its new CEO. Yahoo’s been without a chief executive since September, when it fired the sometimes-confrontational Carol Bartz. Thompson, on the other hand, has been described as personable. His background is in technology rather than media — before [...] more...

Facebook Payments Operation Could Rival Paypal

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January 11th 2010
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – As it aims for a larger slice of the virtual goods pie and possibly step on PayPal’s turf, Facebook has put up notice that it is building a “payments operation” team and looking for a strategist and a payment and risks specialist. According to the classified, the payment operations [...] more...

Valleywag plays the ‘Al Qaeda’ role for Silicon Valley

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May 18th 2009
Author
Edward Barrera

ADOTAS — The Gawker Media tech gossip site has gleefully whacked Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and a Facebook investor, like a piñata for a while now. He was even mentioned in Owen Thomas’ goodbye missive to make sure Valleywag stays on top of the Silicon Valley gossip heap. Unsurprisingly, Thiel [...] more...

AdBrite Gains Daniel Issen

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February 28th 2008
Author
Sarah Novotny

AdBrite announced today that Daniel Issen has officially joined the company in the position of Vice President of Engineering. Issen is now responsible for software development at the firm. Ignacio Fanlo, CEO of AdBrite stated “We are excited to have a technology executive of Daniel’s caliber join AdBrite. Daniel has a [...] more...

Yahoo, EBay & PayPal Stop Phishing

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October 5th 2007
Author
Sarah Novotny

Yahoo and auction web site eBay are teaming up to crack down on fake email. EBay is using Yahoo’s anti-phishing technology to support domain keys according to the BBC News Technology section. Domain keys block fake email by verifying sender with a digital signature. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) will be offered [...] more...

Customer Web Experience Derailed by PayPal Fraud: A True Story

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May 3rd 2007
Author
contributor

A few months ago I had the unfortunate experience of being a victim of PayPal fraud. Although very unpleasant and still ongoing, it did highlight several facts: - Customer experience is #1 - Hubris was the death of many a online operation during the tech boom - On the web your competition is [...] more...

PayPal Cashes in with ‘Click-to-Buy’ Service

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April 10th 2006
Author
Sarah Novotny

At last week’s CTIA Wireless conference in Las Vegas, PayPal Mobile announced its plans to turn your cell phone into an ATM. The eBay-owned company has launched a ‘Click to Buy’ service, which will enable mobile users to make payments by simply sending a code by way of text message [...] more...



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