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PayPal's major drawback for small businesses has been that customers need to leave the website they're shopping on to process a payment. Starting today, however, the new PayPal Payments system will let you keep customers on your website while they're completing a purchase.

Troubled Internet pioneer Yahoo names PayPal President Scott Thompson as its new chief executive, replacing the ousted Carol Bartz.

PayPal has unveiled a mobile payment initiative for shoppers that doesn't require near-field communication (NFC) technology inside smartphones.

A customer who downloaded a copy of OS X Lion get charged 122 times.

PayPal and parent eBay have filed a suit against Google and two former executives alleging that they have misappropriated their trade secrets in the area of mobile payments and point-of-sale strategies.

Stung by a high-profile denial-of-service attack in December, PayPal's CISO says application layer attacks remain a major threat to businesses in general, which need better defenses and actual testing of the DDoS tools they have.

PayPal wants to be the go-to company for digital goods in a world where micropayments are becoming increasingly popular for mobile apps, tablet versions of newspapers, and music. The company announced its micropayment system called PayPal Digital Goods is no longer in preview mode and now available to any seller of digital content.

A co-founder of a mobile payments firm based in Philadelphia that volunteered to help people give money to WikiLeaks after PayPal ceased processing donations to the whistle-blowing organization says it has handled thousands of dollars in contributions in a just a few short days.

With Black Friday quickly approaching, and retailers racing to outdo each other with earlier and earlier deals, it is safe to say that the holiday shopping season has begun. If you're shopping online, though, and paying with PayPal--be warned. There is a phishing attack targeted just for you.

Android smartphone users could be using PayPal to purchase applications for their devices before the end of the year, according to recent reports. Google and eBay's PayPal are reportedly in talks that would bring the e-mail-based payment system to the Android Market. The deal would also allow Android app developers to receive money from application sales via PayPal, according to Bloomberg.

Yahoo will add about 20 third-party applications to several of its sites so that people have fewer reasons to browse away to other places on the Web.