North Carolina’s loss could be Baltimore County’s gain. The county is trying to lure a 400-person global operations center initially planned for North Carolina. That was before the state passed a controversial law that supporters say protects religious freedom but ...

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The mobile payment service PayPal is splitting from eBay and will become a separate and publicly traded company next year.

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Micros Systems Inc., of Columbia, a provider of computer systems to the hospitality and retail industries, and PayPal Inc., an Internet-based electronic payments facilitator headquartered in San Jose, Calif., announced an agreement to integrate PayPal into Micros’ widely deployed point-of-sale platforms.

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NEW YORK — PayPal says it is cutting 325 full-time jobs in a move to streamline the business. EBay Inc.’s PayPal unit also said Monday that it is ending jobs with about 120 independent contractors worldwide. The job cuts have ...

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NEW YORK — Groupon launched a payment service Wednesday that allows businesses to accept credit cards using an iPhone or iPod Touch, becoming the latest company to enter the growing mobile payments market. The announcement sent the online deals company’s ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — PayPal is expanding its brick-and-mortar payment services to more than 7 million stores across the U.S. in a partnership with Discover Financial Services. EBay Inc.’s payments unit said Wednesday that retailers that take Discover cards will ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook’s stock plunged to a new low Thursday as some of the social networking leader’s early backers got their first chance to sell their shares since the company’s initial public offering went awry. Analysts interpreted the unusually ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson faces calls for his ouster after just four months leading the troubled Internet company because of inaccuracies with his academic credentials. A major Yahoo shareholder who exposed the misrepresentation Thursday is now leading ...

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NEW YORK — Google, Facebook and other big tech companies are jointly designing a system for combating email scams known as phishing. Such scams try to trick people into giving away passwords and other personal information by sending emails that ...

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NEW YORK — Yahoo Inc. has named Scott Thompson, president of eBay Inc.’s PayPal division, as its CEO, the fourth one in less than five years for the struggling Internet company. Yahoo, which announced its choice Wednesday, has been without ...

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