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China's top provider of electronic payment services will tie up with online payment platform PayPal, the two companies said, in a move that will let Chinese customers buy from overseas merchants.

China's top provider of electronic payment services will tie up with online payment platform PayPal, the two companies said, in a move that will let Chinese customers buy from overseas merchants.

PayPal, the online payment platform of US e-commerce giant eBay, will tie up with a Chinese partner to allow consumers in China to buy from overseas merchants, according to a report.

PayPal plans to double staff in Asia to 2,000 by end of this year. PayPal, the online payments unit of Internet auction site operator eBay Inc., plans to double its staff in Asia to 2,000 by the end of the year.

First they went to a movie together. Two Las Vegas women ? a 30-year-old and a 50-something. Total strangers. Totally platonic. And the older woman paid in advance, so there was no awkward exchange of cash. ¶ They saw ÒAvatar.Ó Afterward, they went for hamburgers. They talked about the movie, about the older womanÕs grandchildren. It was a nice time. A three-hour outing that netted the younger woman ? weÕll call her Sarah ? a tidy $100. ThatÕs SarahÕs rate on RentAFriend.com. ¶ It was just a matter of time, right? Friends for sale online. ItÕs the sum of our modern equation: Community decline + Facebook + loneliness + 80-hour-work weeks + anxiety + the Great Recession + PayPal = RentAFriend.com.

Vendors, end-users and security researchers debated the merits of "responsible disclosure" in a panel discussion this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.. The term "responsible disclosure" of vulnerabilities is a misnomer, a phrase created by software vendors who often take so long to release a patch that they are the ones who act irresponsibly, a noted security researcher said this week at the RSA Conference.HD Moore, CSO of vulnerability management firm Rapid 7 and chief architect of Metasploit, said vendors need to start better communicating with researchers who privately report full details of vulnerabilities to vendors. They can start by turning around fixes in a shorter order, Moore said during the six-person panel discussion, which included representatives from Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal and Continental Airlines."What the researcher doesn't see is we've got queued up vulnerabilities that we're trying to get to," said Katie Moussouris, senior security strategist at Microso

Police: Thousands of brides-to-be, vendors sign up for fake Boston event via Web site. Scammers set up a Web site advertising a fake bridal show billed as the "biggest and most extravagant" and used it to steal from thousands of brides-to-be and their vendors, who were lured by chances to win "fabulous gifts and prizes," police and FBI experts said Monday.

Police: Thousands of brides-to-be, vendors sign up for fake Boston event via Web site. Scammers set up a Web site advertising a fake bridal show billed as the "biggest and most extravagant" and used it to steal from thousands of brides-to-be and their vendors, who were lured by chances to win "fabulous gifts and prizes," police and FBI experts said Monday.

Talk about getting stood up at the altar. Thousands of would-be brides and grooms and hundreds of vendors registered for a heavily advertised bridal show that was to start Friday evening at the Hynes Convention Center, but, according to Boston police, the entire event was a sham. Lured in part by the promise that some proceeds would go to earthquake victims in Haiti, about 100 to 200 wedding-industry vendors paid $350 to $4,000 each to operate booths at The Boston 411 Home & Bridal Show 2010, said Detective Steven Blair. He estimated that about 5,000 individuals bought tickets for $10 to $15 to attend. ``What we found out is there is no show,'' Blair said, standing next to an enlargement of a bogus website used by the con artists. ``It was a scam.'' Boston police and the FBI Cyber Crime Unit began investigating the scheme last week, after the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority called authorities. They held the news conference to expose the scam, and prevent thousands of people f

New credit card law restricts bank tactics, but sent interest rates up and credit lines down. Your next credit card statement is going to contain an ugly truth: how much that card really costs to use.

New credit card law restricts bank tactics, but sent interest rates up and credit lines down. Your next credit card statement is going to contain an ugly truth: how much that card really costs to use.

PayPal to become a way to pay for Facebook ads, credits for virtual goods. PayPal is extending its reach into Facebook.

Online games and quizzes test your geography knowledge and travel IQ. Do you know how many islands make up Hong Kong? I didn't, and I had never heard of the Eritrean currency Nakfa, either, until I started taking travel quizzes online.

PayPal continues to block some payment transactions in India, no resolution seems near. Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months.

In unusual move, PayPal curtails some transactions in India; cites questions about the service. The online payments service PayPal has taken the unusual step of suspending many transactions in India for more than a week.

NASA unveils 'the faces of a new frontier' _ corporate logos, not astronauts. A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven ? space companies for hire.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The people who brought the world malicious software that steals credit card numbers from your personal computer and empties bank ATMs of their cash are hiring, and they're advertising online.

Obama ends Bush signature return-to-moon program on anniversary of Columbia shuttle disaster. President Barack Obama is redirecting America's space program, killing NASA's $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.

Obama administration looks to industry for taxi rides to orbit, seeks to outsource spacecraft. Getting to space is about to be outsourced.

Start-ups, aerospace giants ready to take NASA's place in ferrying astronauts up to orbit. Here are some leading companies that are or could be developing a private space taxi system to take astronauts to the International Space Station. More firms may join in.