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“I’ll pay you in 21 days for a Hamburger today” says Paypal

eBay (NASDAQ EBAY) has really not been scoring points on the merchant front for the past few weeks. Ever since Meg decided to abandon the sinking ship, seems the entire business has been hurting, right down to the golden goose. The problem now, of course, is that many recent changes to their cash cow have […]

9Feb2008 | Riley Poole | 12 comments | Continued
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Is The Yahoo! Board Made Up Of Complete Yahoos?

As of now, then Yahoo (NASDAQ YHOO) Board is set to turn down the Microsoft (NASDAQ MSFT) offer to buy the company at $31 a share. Apparently, word is that the Yahoo board wants MORE MONEY! More money for a company that is losing money BY THE SECOND. Are they insane????
Maybe this is the plan: […]

9Feb2008 | James Blunts | 8 comments | Continued
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The Jig is Up, Guys!

Seems that a long kept secret is out. Seems like Wachovia (NYSE WB), Wells Fargo (NYSE WFC) and many other banks have gotten caught with their hands in the cookie jar. While banks have often been once removed from “illegal merchants” it seems regulators have wised up to the practice of looking the other way […]

8Feb2008 | Riley Poole | 6 comments | Continued
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GE - We Bring Good Things To Identity Theft

So, apparently a few weeks ago, some backup computer tape went missing, and lo and behold roughly 650,000 GE (NYSE GE) Money cardholders’ was on it. How do they transport these tapes? Horse and buggy? I mean, how many damned times do I have to read about a tape being misplaced? Is the security guy […]

6Feb2008 | James Blunts | 7 comments | Continued
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Ebay Looking Into Buying AOL?

So, apparently everyone is whispering about how eBay (NASDAQ EBAY) might put out a bid to buy Time warner’s AOL (NYSE TWX). Talk about the terrible buy of the century. What does AOL even do anymore? Instant Messenger is the only thing they still have a hold on, and even that is slipping with the […]

5Feb2008 | James Blunts | 15 comments | Continued
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Paypal Money Market Screw Up, Dividends What Are Dividends?

So, anyone who happens to have a Paypal Money Market account—you may want to check your dividends for last month. For some odd reason, I have heard from many, many people that claim to have gotten completely shafted by Paypal in this regard for last month.
I don’t know if someone just missed a decimal point, […]

4Feb2008 | James Blunts | 18 comments | Continued
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Google Plans to Discontinue Google Checkout?

It wouldn’t be the first time Google (NASDAQ GOOG) caved in to competition, anyone remember Google Answers? As Paypal sees impressive growth numbers, rumor has it that nearly 90% of merchants have dropped the use of Google Checkout after the discontinuation of their “free” processing period.
With Google’s stock in tanking now, rumor has it that […]

4Feb2008 | Riley Poole | 19 comments | Continued
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Going For The Giant Spread or The New England Nooner?

Still want to take the Giants at +12???… Vegas is tempting you, but are you going to bite? Or what about that 53 ½ over/under??…I’m sure that under is looking REALLY good to you. Plaxico Burress, of the NY Giants is predicting a Giants 23-17 win, which would satisfy both of those bets, but is […]

31Jan2008 | Glen Paddegit | 4 comments | Continued
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The Perfect Scam

What happens when you mix credit card fraud and click fraud? You get the perfect scam. It seems fraudsters have been hard at work at milking Google (NASDAQ GOOG) and other PPC networks such as Microsoft AdCenter (NASDAQ MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ YHOO) out of valuable click traffic but what’s most shocking is that these […]

30Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 10 comments | Continued
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Is Verified by Visa Toast?

Visa spent over $100MM in marketing and developing the service. In 2007, they fired the person in charge of the Verified by Visa Program and in 2008, they are going to push back on the program even further. While at one point over 100 service providers supported it, today fewer than 5 of them actively […]

30Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 6 comments | Continued
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