Discover Pushes PayPal Payments; First Data Holds Out Discover makes headway in bringing eBay's online-payments service to physical retailers, but First Data, one of the country's largest merchant processors, has opted not to support the service. More
Google Glass Bid Up To $95,300 On eBay Before Seller Realized He Wasn't Allowed To Sell Them In February, Google ran a contest for Glass offering "winners" the opportunity to be "Glass Explorers," i.e. the guinea pigs who will test out Glass in the wild. Downside: Explorers have to pay $1,500 for the product and for the privilege of being called "Glassholes." Upside: They get to test out a brand new product before anyone else. More
EBay to change fees to lure Amazon sellers EBay is scrapping its complex, tiered set of "final value fees," calculated as a percentage of an item's sale price, and introducing flat-rate fees based on product categories. More
EBay's fourth-quarter revenue rose 18 percent EBay Inc reported holiday quarter results that just beat Wall Street expectations, but the e-commerce company also gave a cautious forecast for 2013. EBay shares climbed 1.7 percent to $53.80 in after-hours trading following the announcement. Expectations were high ahead of the results because sales data from outside sources suggested strong sales growth from eBay's online marketplace and a solid increase in transactions processed by the company's PayPal payments business. More
Starting Ebay Bid for a Single Twinkie Is $5,000 ...Even if America’s iconic lard-log is dying, however, its entrepreneurial spirit is very much alive. Which is evidenced by the market for Twinkies and Twinkie-related products that is currently emerging on eBay. According to prices set by the sellers on the auction site, if you want a piece of air-puffed, sugar-soaked, corn-fed American history … it is going to cost you. More
Extending tax cuts will put serious strain on the national debt, which is currently at unsustainable levels.
The economy was one of their top issues as voters went to the polls this year. So what does Donald Trump’s return to the White House—as well as Republican gains in Congress—mean for the U.
Gender was part of the campaign landscape in many different ways this election.
Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee.
Delwest is bringing some income-restricted apartments to an “impressive” location.
The local developer closed last month on the purchase of 1.5 acres in the 2200 block of South Albion Street that it needed to develop a 170-unit income-restricted multifamily project.
“To be in this kind of core of Denver where you can sit there and say, your southern boundary is Cherry Hills and your northern boundary is Belcaro, it was pretty impressive for us, and we feel like the need is just so big,” said Joel DelZotto, Delwest CEO and 9resident.
In addition to the apartments, the project will incorporate a 5,000-square-foot preschool and a few townhomes in front of it.
Currently, there’s a handful of old office buildings at the site that Delwest is working on demolishing.
LONDON — Phones hold so much of our digital lives — emails, social media and bank accounts, photos, chat messages and more — that if they ever get stolen or go missing, it can cause major disruption beyond just the loss of a device.
In some places, phone thefts have surged so much it’s now an everyday problem, with thieves on electric bikes snatching them out of pedestrians’ hands, swiping them off restaurant tables or pickpocketing them on the subway.
In Britain, where 200 phones are stolen every day in “snatch thefts,” the government has pledged to crack down on the crime and is meeting with tech companies and device makers to come up with solutions.
Here are steps you can take before and after your phone goes missing:
Basic protections
There are things you can do to make it less painful if your phone is stolen.
The Boulder Valley and St. Vrain Valley school districts are working to help teachers harness the power of AI, while keeping student data safe and teaching students how to use the emerging technology ethically.
When Open AI launched ChatGPT in November 2022, neither district decided to block the new, generative AI technology that so quickly exploded.
Bre and Shawn Jaworski teach a session on “Prompting” during an AI “pop-up” teacher training hosted by the Skyline High School feeder system on Oct.
Big tech brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Meta have all unleashed tech that they describe as artificial intelligence. Soon, the companies say, we’ll all be using artificial intelligence to write emails, generate images and summarize articles.
But who asked for any of this in the first place?
Judging from the feedback I get from readers of this column, lots of people outside the tech industry remain uninterested in AI — and are increasingly frustrated with how difficult it has become to ignore.