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PayPal lets Facebook friends send cash

Online financial transactions powerhouse PayPal released an application on Thursday that lets friends send one another cash at leading social network Facebook.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Governments should use cash transfers to target families hit by food poverty

Governments should target aid towards individual households threatened with poverty because of soaring food costs rather than intervene in the markets to try to lower prices, according to research funded by the Economic and ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Japan's DoCoMo eyes cash transfer by cellphone

Japan's top mobile telephone operator NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it aimed to launch a new service enabling cash transfers simply by entering the recipient's cellphone number.

Technology / Business

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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The joy of cheques

An electronic cheque which eliminates the need for costly processing by banks but preserves the simplicity and ease of a traditional cheque book has been designed by a team of academics in the UK.

Technology / Other

created 16 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Tackling financial exploitation of elderly people

Professionals who are in close contact with elderly people could soon be in a better position to spot if they are being financially exploited, for example through a lottery scam or by a deceitful relative draining the bank ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First lady promotes healthy food in California

(AP) -- Michelle Obama says a proposed new supermarket in the middle of a blue-collar Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California is an example of how the effort to bring healthy foods to low-income communities is paying ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amylin's long-delayed diabetes drug gets FDA nod

Amylin Pharmaceuticals won approval Friday for its long-delayed diabetes drug Bydureon, a next-generation treatment that requires fewer injections than the company's 7-year old diabetes medicine, Byetta.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NZ police raid file-sharing site founder's mansion

New Zealand police raided several homes and businesses linked to the founder of Megaupload.com, a giant file-sharing site shut down by U.S. authorities, on Friday and seized guns, millions of dollars, and ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Feds shut down Megaupload.com file-sharing website (Update)

One of the world's largest file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company executives were charged with violating piracy laws, federal prosecutors said.

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created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 49

Dropbox co-founder aims to build his own Google, not sell to them

Four years ago, Drew Houston was just another super-smart hacker with ambitions of starting his own company.

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created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Google adds more IBM patents to tech arsenal

Google on Wednesday confirmed that it has added more IBM patents to its technology arsenal as smartphone rivals increasingly battle in courts over innovations.

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created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple scores hit on HTC in US patent case

Apple scored a hit in an ongoing patent brawl with mobile handset giant HTC with a US trade authority ruling the iPhone maker has rights to features using one-tap screen commands.

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created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 14

Mobile money transfers gaining currency with consumers

If you need to pay a baby sitter, send money to a kid in college or reimburse a friend for lunch but don't have your checkbook or cash on hand, pick up your smartphone.

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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