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AVOID WIRE TRANSFERS. Use secure payment systems like PayPal for small-ticket items. For more expensive items, use a legitimate escrow service like Escrow.com in which your money is held by an intermediary until you've inspected the merchandise...
Sometime after that, an old friend of mine called. He said, "There's this guy I know from Stanford. He was chief operating officer of something called PayPal, which was sold to eBay for $1.4 billion. Now he wants to get into moviemaking and wants to make Thank You for Smoking." I told him my absolute rule is to accept phone calls from people worth $1.4 billion who want to make my novels into movies...
...thirds of the world's Internet population speaks a language other than English), and it will form more global partnerships with content providers. Here are some things Google watchers speculate it is pursuing: new ways to search for (and perhaps buy) music, an online payment service to rival PayPal, some sort of smart phone, a space elevator to transport stuff to the moon. (Don't laugh. Brin and Page can't seem to let go of that last one, at least as an idea to kick around.) To help accomplish its goals, whatever they may be, Google raised $4.2 billion...
...created the service. After bidding closes at 11:59 p.m. today, the service will match compatible buyers and sellers. Those who sell their vote may be asked to vote in the presence of a vote market representative, according to the website, which also says that a PayPal account has been set up to facilitate the transactions between buyers and sellers. Michael B. Love ’08, the chair of the Election Commission, called the service “completely undemocratic” and vowed to limit its effect as much as possible. “If we find that...
...WHITMAN: Yes. Our relationship with iTunes demonstrates our ability to process a 99-cent payment without charging 7%. [PayPal does not charge consumers, but on micropayments under three dollars, the merchant, in this case iTunes, pays 5 percent of the total sale plus five cents per transaction.]Micropayments are part of the future of PayPal, and we're incredibly well-positioned to do that because we're used to handling individual, small buyer transactions of ten cents, 20 cents, 30 cents...