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PayPal Wants You to Shop While Straphanging In Singapore
PayPal and others are looking to make mobile payments even more mobile.
Four Yahoo Board Members to Depart, Two New Ones Arrive and Three More on the Way (Like I Said)
Yahoo moves chairs around the deck some more.
PayPal Says It’s Full Speed Ahead on Mobile Payments After President Resigns
PayPal’s VP of Mobile David Marcus makes the case for why its mobile payments strategy will prevail in a market surrounded by incumbents.
Here’s How PayPal Is Pitching Mobile Payments to Major Retailers (Slideshow)
Check out the photos from a recent visit to PayPal’s San Jose headquarters, where AllThingsD got an exclusive peek at the company’s brand-new “Shopping Showcase.”
Networking Start-Up Nicira Wants to Mess Up Cisco and Juniper’s Business
Watch out Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors. Your business model is about to get disrupted by Nicira, which is coming out of stealth mode today.
Zuckerberg Is the Billion-Share Man: Who Owns What, Who Makes What in the Facebook IPO
Lots of investor funds, venture capitalists and individuals have a piece of the Facebook action. Here’s a rundown.
Email Giants Move to Slash “Phishing”
Email-service providers Google Inc., Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and AOL Inc. are backing a new effort intended to dramatically reduce “phishing” emails — which attempt to trick recipients into thinking they come from a legitimate source.Japan’s Rakuten Set to Challenge Amazon With Help From Kobo
Who is Amazon’s biggest competitor? It may be a Japanese-based company you’ve never heard of.
Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases
The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online. Why? Here are three reasons.
eBay’s John Donahoe Literally Starts Hammering Out the Plan for Mobile Payments
In an interview, eBay’s CEO provides a few details about the company’s mobile payments trial with Home Depot, and how it would expand from five to 51 stores across the country over the next week.
Sound Bites From the SOPA Strike
A roundup of some of the interesting comments made about SOPA and PIPA during today’s Web-wide protest against the bills.
eBay Reports Better Than Expected Revenues for Holiday Quarter
EBay, the e-commerce and digital payments giant, exceeded analyst expectations in the fourth-quarter with revenues totaling $3.4 billion, or 35 percent higher than the year ago period.
Google’s VP of Commerce, Stephanie Tilenius, Moves Into Global Role
Google’s VP of Commerce, Stephanie Tilenius, who was helping to lead the company’s mobile payments initiative, is changing roles to oversee the company’s commerce efforts internationally.
List of Sites Planning SOPA Protests Continues to Grow
As many as 7,000 Web sites are thought to be participating in tomorrow’s anti-SOPA protest by going dark. Here are a few who will — or may — be among them.
eBay Predicts Mobile Commerce Will Grow 60 Percent in 2012
EBay’s John Donahoe has drawn his mobile prediction line in the sand for 2012, and it is pretty jaw-dropping.
eBay Is the Most Recent Bay Area Transplant to Seek Access to Seattle’s Talent Pool
The e-commerce giant has joined a growing list of companies willing to brave the rain in order to gain access to a deep pool of technology engineers in Seattle.
“Menry” Is Back at HP: CEO Meg Whitman Hires Longtime PR Guru Henry Gomez as Top Flack
Together again!
Yahapocalypse Now? Q4 Results, Proxy Fight, Board Hijinks and Asia Solution Combine for Busy Month for Yahoo.
A perfect storm for the Silicon Valley Internet giant or just another day at “The Office”?
Come West, Daniel Loeb: A Silicon Valley Visit As Yahoo’s Activist Shareholder Mulls Proxy Fight
Hey, Scott, Jerry — let’s all meet with Dan at the Rosewood lobby!
Like Yahoo Founder, Like New Yahoo CEO: Data Is Now King?
Advertising and media at Yahoo are now hereby a viscount and baron.
New Yahoo CEO’s $27M Pay Package for 2012 = Lotsa Lettuce
Newly installed Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has got to be hoping that the world is not ending in 2012!
PayPal’s First Mobile Payments Pilot Is With Big-Box Retailer Home Depot
Some good news for eBay, following the surprising announcement this week that PayPal was losing its top executive to Yahoo.
After New CEO Scott “Nice Guy” Thompson Meets Yahoo VPs, It’s Time for All-Hands Meeting to Say Hello!
Much more Mr. Nice Guy!
CEO John Donahoe Talks About What’s Next for eBay’s PayPal, After Scott Thompson’s Surprise Exit to Yahoo
Now that Yahoo has nabbed PayPal President Scott Thompson from its crosstown Internet peer, there will be some shuffling to do in order to fill the gap he leaves behind at eBay.
