News tagged with cash payments

James Murdoch out at News International

James Murdoch, the younger son of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, stepped down Wednesday as executive chairman of News International, News Corp.'s scandal-plagued British newspaper unit.

Technology / Business

created Feb 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Post Office card error leaves Italians in the red: report

A computer glitch left Italian Post Office customers in the red by processing card transactions at 100 times their value, Italian press reported Thursday.

Technology / Other

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Older Adults Say Cash Might Motivate Them to Walk

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2006, a team of researchers set out to examine what sorts of walking programs and incentives might induce sedentary people over age 50 to put on their sneakers. They found that small cash payments might ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1




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Browser wars flare in mobile space

The browser wars are heating up again, but this time the fight is for dominance of the mobile Internet.

Technology / Software

created May 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Social welfare cuts ultimately come with heavy price, researchers say

(Phys.org) -- Slashing government funding for Medicaid, food stamps and other programs that serve the poor – while politically popular with some lawmakers and many conservatives – may do more harm ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 191

Yahoo's $7.1B deal with Alibaba offers ray of hope

After years of mortifying missteps, Yahoo Inc. finally has something to boast about: a multibillion-dollar windfall from a savvy investment in China.

Technology / Business

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B (Update)

(AP) -- Struggling Internet company Yahoo Inc. has secured a lifeline after agreeing to sell half of its prized stake in Chinese e-commerce group Alibaba for about $7.1 billion, with most of the cash going to shareholders.

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders

(AP) -- Yahoo's dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet company's ousting of CEO Scott Thompson just four ...

Technology / Business

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Digital 'wallets' proliferate at cellphone show

Cash, coins and credit cards are so Twentieth Century. At least, that's the opinion of the electronics manufacturers, phone companies, banks and credit card issuers that expect cellphones to be the main way consumers pay ...

Technology / Telecom

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Japan's Softbank ties up with eBay in online billing

Internet auction giant eBay and mobile phone operator Softbank said Wednesday they were teaming up to bring the US firm's PayPal online billing system to Japan for the first time.

Technology / Business

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Greece could be broke by June, economist says

(Phys.org) -- If international lenders refuse to renegotiate substantial reductions in Greek public debt, chances are that whatever government emerges in Greece in the next few weeks will run out of cash by ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tale of two e-retailers: study finds U.S. online consumers bigger risk-takers, more trusting than Korean shoppers

U.S. online shoppers more likely to be risk-takers compared to their Korean counterparts, says Professor Frances Gunn, Ted Rogers School of Retail Management. She is the Canadian co-author of an international study that examined ...

Technology / Internet

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The wealth of Thai villages

Examining Thai villages as smaller versions of a national economy provides a new understanding of the dynamics of economic growth and yields fresh insights to the financial lives of villages and households.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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