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- A Web payment processing service founded in 1998 and acquired by eBay in late 2002. Operating as an independent brand, PayPal, San Jose, CA (www.paypal.com) is used to shop...
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- eBay beats expectations; calls PayPal a "gem" and Skype a "killer" app
- Updated: eBay reported second quarter earnings today, beating Wall Street's expectations with revenues of $2.2 billion, up 20 percent from the second quarter of 2007. It reported non-GAAP profits of $568 million, or 43 cents per share. GAAP profits were $460 million, or 35 cents per share. Wall Street...
- Tags: Revenue, Skype Technologies S.A., Quarter, PayPal, eBay Inc., GAAP, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Boldt 24-Pack Volume I (dmg)
- Boldt 24-Pack is a package of 24 software instruments for GarageBand / Logic. Boldt 24-Pack is free to use as much as you want, but if you would like to make a donation to help me cover any possible bandwidth costs or if you want to give me some incentive...
- Tags: PayPal, Boldt Software, Boldt 24-Pack, Tools & Techniques, E-mail, Sales Force Management, Management, Online Communications, Sales
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails
- Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emailsLook at all the layers...of security that have been put into place over the years. And how much safer is the Internet? Not one bit! You are not going to make the Internet safer with any piece of technology....
- Tags: Spam, INTERNET, E-mail providers, Cyberthreats, cloud computing, phishing email, DomainKeys, PayPal, Google Gmail, phishing, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- Gmail, PayPal and Ebay embrace DomainKeys to fight phishing emails
- Brad Taylor, Google's Gmail Spam Czar, has just posted details on the ongoing cooperation with PayPal and Ebay, two of the most targeted brands in phishing emails, the effect of which is rejecting compared to flagging as spam each and every email pretending to be coming from paypal.com and ebay.com...
- Tags: Google Gmail, DomainKeys, PayPal, eBay Inc., Authentication, E-mail, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Attacking phishing at the source
- Good news on the phishing front. Google reports that they are now authenticating all e-mail that purports to come from eBay and PayPal. Using e-mail authentication standards including DomainKeys and Domain Keys identified Mail, and working with PayPal and eBay, Google's Gmail now verifies every e-mail...
- Tags: Bank, E-mail Authentication, PayPal, eBay Inc., E-mail, Phishing, Financial Services, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fast
- Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fastTwitter? PayPal? StabI remark your words... "stability"What happens is twitter down?Like 20% of time in last week.Refunds me?No way.I dont trust in twitter for manage my cash.
- Tags: PayPal, Twitter-A, not-so
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Twitter as a PayPal killer? Umm, not so fast
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest Editorial by Dan Glass A recent blog proclaiming that Twitter could soon become a rival to PayPal made me shudder in fear. The blog author postulated that Twitter could offer a method to...
- Tags: Payment, PayPal, Twitter, Operational Accounting, Security, Finance, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Could Twitter become the next PayPal?
- Could Twitter become the next PayPal?How about a secure system?Nothing in your presentation discusses security or reliability. If it is not secure then it doesn't matter how cool it is. Why is security not a priority?Twitter outages are the norm, what happens when they are down and you want to...
- Tags: Instant messaging, SECURITY, Twitter, PayPal
- Discussion threads 2008-07-01
- Could Twitter become the next PayPal?
- "Twitter's not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year?", writes Nate Westheimer over at Silicon Alley Insider. The answer, he says, is for Twitter to get into the P2P mobile payments space. by Steve O'Hear
- Tags: Mobile Messaging, Payment, Mobile, PayPal, Twitter, Advertising & Promotion, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?
- Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?RE: Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?I seriously doubt they were doing it deliberately, it's not like they could have done it without people realising.And as for anonymously bashing ebay, they were arguing against ebay cutting off other payment methods hardly surprising. They...
- Tags: cloud computing, Google Inc., App Engine, PayPal
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Google intentionally blocking PayPal from App Engine?
- After anonymously bashing PayPal in Australia, it's not a huge surprise that Google was caught intentionally blocking AppEngine users from using PayPal too. Could it have been a innocent mistake? Sure, but the circumstance and timing are extremely suspicious. First, Google was outed after sending an...
- Tags: Google Inc., PayPal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Operational Accounting, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Finance, Garett Rogers
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- E-trade, Schwab, Google fall victim to "Office Space/Superman 3" attack
- E-trade, Schwab, Google fall victim to "Office Space/Superman 3" attackSo did they break agreements somewhere?If the companies agree to send this small deposit for free then what did they do wrong? Or is this just the normal case of an individual being chastised for exploiting a loophole while companies...
- Tags: Regulations, USA PATRIOT Act, E-trade, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., Michael Largent, Google Inc., Microsoft Office
- Discussion threads 2008-05-28
- PayPal fixes XSS vulnerability
- PayPal fixed an XSS vulnerability today that drew some attention. Harry Sintonen reported an XSS vulnerability in the "safe" area of the PayPal application. It was particularly interesting due to the use of EV certs employed by PayPal, which are intended to help prevent phishing attacks (a very real threat...
- Tags: Certification, Vulnerability, XSS, PayPal, Quality, Security, Business Operations, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- PayPal no friend to online buyers
- PayPal no friend to online buyersPayPal TipsI managed to have Paypal refund money I lost to a scammer ($24) who was listed as "PayPal Verified" on their website.It's interesting that PayPal arbitrarily decided late last year to change the default payment source account from credit card to bank account for...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, PayPal, online buyer
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- PayPal: "No intention" of blocking Safari
- PayPal: "No intention" of blocking SafariApple lawyers have been busy this week!First they strong arm PowerPay into dropping Psystar, now they are threatening PayPal. Hmm, seems that Apple is the new 1,000lb gorilla!!RE: PayPal:Good to know. Safari is a modern secure browser like Firefox and IE.
- Tags: Web browsers, PayPal, Apple Safari
- Discussion threads 2008-04-19
- PayPal: "No intention" of blocking Safari
- In response to my piece yesterday that PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe, PayPal public relations firm sent me the following email stating in no unspecific terms that "We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple's Safari, from our website." Hi Jason,...
- Tags: Apple Safari, Web Browser, PayPal, Web Browsers, Web Site Development, Internet, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-19
- Psystar: We're sorry but the store is down (again)
- Still wanting one of those trendy Mac clones from Psystar? You'll have to wait a bit longer. Psystar's store is down--again. Visit the store, which News.com's Tom Krazit has been monitoring frequently, and you'll find this ditty. Thank you for visiting Psystar. We're sorry but the...
- Tags: PayPal, Psystar, E-mail, Quality, Online Communications, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe (updated)
- PayPal may ban Safari for being unsafe updatedLinux didn't fall because no-one botheredI remember reading a report from one of the participants. Linux didn't fall becuse none of the teams invested any time into it until after the others fell. Whether that was out of the feeling that...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, PWN-TO-OWN, PayPal, Apple Safari, phishing
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Apple should call PayPal's bluff
- Apple should call PayPal's bluffIsn't the larger point, ....... why wouldn't Apple simply comply? It would seem that anything that protects their customer's from fraud is a good thing. Why does it always have to be Apple's way or the highway?Blaming the victimThis is nothing more than pay-pal...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, SSL/TLS, Authentication/Encryption, Spam, SECURITY, Operating systems, PayPal, Apple Inc., Apple Safari, operating system, phishing
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Apple should call PayPal's bluff
- PayPal is in another stand-off with Apple over EV SSL Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer certificates, but Steve Jobs & Co. may call the transaction service's bluff. According to Ryan Naraine, PayPal is about to launch a whitepaper that advocates blocking transactions from browsers that don't have...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Web Browser, PayPal, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Web Browsers, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
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