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Exclusive: Japan’s Rakuten Wins the Heart of Pinterest in $100M Funding Race With $1.5B Valuation

Liz Gannes and Kara Swisher in Commerce on May 16 at 8:18 pm PT

The largest e-commerce site in Japan is about to get pinned by Ben Silbermann in massive funding round.

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Will You Remember Your PayPhrase?

Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 30, 2009 at 5:00 am PT

We already have a ton of passwords to remember. Now Amazon.com wants us to remember something new–PayPhrase–which has already sparked an online pile on. The program, which Amazon announced Wednesday, is supposed to replace ordinary login and password combinations with a phrase and PIN combination that are linked to a specific account and shipping address.

A Few Shortcuts to Juice Up a BlackBerry

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on July 15, 2008 at 2:36 pm PT

Here are some useful shortcuts that come built into most of the BlackBerrys, even older models, made by RIM but not many owners actually use or know about them.