At least one other company is betting on the success of Windows 8. Online electronics retailer Newegg is gearing up for the holidays by promoting tablets and laptops running on Microsoft’s new operating system. It doesn’t have much of a...
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David Marcus is taking over PayPal, a business that accounted for more than 40 percent of EBay’s sales last year.
PayPal’s New Leader: How He Handled a Crisis at His Startup
Here’s one way to restore “startup energy” to a 13-year-old business: Put an entrepreneur who has been there less than a year in charge. EBay Chief Executive John Donahoe will relinquish his role as the interim president of PayPal to...
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PayPal is restricting the accounts of users it suspects of using the payment service to place bets on the NCAA tournament.
PayPal Warns Gamblers, But Lets Them Keep Their Winnings
PayPal sent out some scary-looking e-mails this week to customers who the company believes are using their accounts for betting on the NCAA’s March Madness. The e-mails are legit, unlike the constant flow of paypal@service.com spam messages that hit our...
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