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How PayNearMe Wants to Make Cash Cool Again

in Commerce on December 23, 2010 at 4:28 pm PT

For just a minute, forget about futuristic stuff, like waving your mobile phone to pay for things. This Mountain View, Calif.-based company is trying to make cash cool again.

Virtual Monday? How Holiday Shopping Has Included Intangibles.

in Commerce on December 3, 2010 at 11:06 am PT

Cyber Monday reached a record-breaking level this year with more than $1 billion dollars spent online, making it the heaviest U.S. online shopping day ever. And that includes the intangibles in our lives that you can’t touch or feel, and can’t ship in a box, like e-books and music and virtual goods.

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Arrest in Epic Cyber Swindle

in News on August 18, 2009 at 5:01 pm PT

A 28-year-old American, believed by prosecutors to be one of the nation’s cybercrime kingpins, was indicted Monday along with two Russian accomplices on charges that they carried out the largest hacking and identity-theft caper in U.S. history.