Half Of US Children Will Be On Food Stamps (redOrbit)

With the present recession in tow, the number of children on food stamps is expected to increase. According to researchers, current statistics suggest that approximately half of the children in the U.S., including 90 percent of children who grow up in single-parent households and 90 percent of black children, will …

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eBay Launches PayPal X Platform [Live Video] (Mashable)

Several months ago, eBay subsidiary PayPal revealed the next evolution of its payment platform. Called PayPal X , the platform promised to open up new APIs (application programming interfaces) to developers, allowing them to create their own customized payment systems based on the PayPal. Only a few select partners had …

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UPDATE: EBay’s PayPal Launches Open Payments System (Nasdaq)

(Updates with additional details on partners, mobile payments and transaction fees.) SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- EBay Inc.’s (EBAY) PayPal unit on Tuesday launched new technology that makes it easier for third-party software developers to fold the online payments system into their own applications. More: continued here

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