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Facebook Is Going After PayPal, Google Checkout
businessinsider.com - 6/30/2009
Facebook Is Going After PayPal, Google Checkout
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Facebook is coming after eBay's (EBAY) PayPal and Google Checkout and it's hiring-up to do it. The guy who used to run Google Checkout, Prashant Fuloria, left Google (GOOG) after six years last month and now works for Facebook as its Director of Product Management responsible for the"Pay With ...
Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API
techcrunch.com - 7/6/2009
Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service With A New, Secret API
— techcrunch.com — It looks like PayPal is rolling out a more flexible payments API called Adaptive Payments. We’ve obtained a confidential document, which is embedded below, explaining the details of the new system. Basically the API is designed to give ... (more) Paypal Looks to Crush Amazon’s Fledgling Payment Service ...

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Facebook Nabs New Payments Director from Google
insidefacebook.com - 6/29/2009
Facebook Nabs New Payments Director from Google
— insidefacebook.com — The Facebook Platform payments and monetization ecosystem continues to grow rapidly this year. Recently, Facebook has been giving more involved: a few weeks ago Facebook started testing integration its own virtual currency with application developers ... (more) Facebook Nabs New Payments Director from Google

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The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Pulic By Default
readwriteweb.com - 6/25/2009
The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Pulic By Default
— readwriteweb.com — One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being ... (more) The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Pulic By ...

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