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  Kobo Now Accepts Paypal

  3285 readersKobo has just added another payment option to its ebookstore. Along with Visa, Mastercard, your immortal soul, or Gift Cards, Kobo now accepts Paypal, the payment processor of last resort. Kobo customers can now buy any of 2.4 million eBooks sold by Kobo and pay with their existing Paypal account. This does away with the need

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  Smashwords Removes Censorship Policy, Allows Erotica

  838 readersSmashwords is no longer censoring content from including rape, bestiality and incest. The site’s founder Mark Coker posted a new update in the PayPal censorship scandal on the Smashwords website last night explaining that the old policy has been reinstated. He wrote: “I met with PayPal this afternoon at their office in San Jose. They will soon

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  Led By PayPal, Smashwords Updates Erotica Rules

  707 readersDigital publishing site Smashwords has updated its policy, requiring certain restrictions to erotica content published on its site, because of pressure from PayPal. Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, explains the new terms in a letter posted on the site: “…we are modifying our Terms of Service to clarify our policies regarding erotic fiction that contains bestiality,

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  Google Wallet Upgrade Adds Multiple Credit Cards

  826 readersGoogle is trying to make it even easier to use your phone or tablet as a payment device. On Wednesday, the company announced a new cloud-based version of the Google Wallet app, adding support for credit and debit cards including, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover. Google said that as part of the upgrade, it has begun

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  PayPal Lifts Censorship Ban

  953 readersAfter threatening to close the accounts of online booksellers who sell content that includes rape, incest and bestiality, PayPal has rescinded its appeal. The eBay owned payments processing company will now allow sites including Smashwords to sell content without being subject to censorship. The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), an organization who along with the Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression

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  PayPal cracks down on erotica e-book sales

  2706 readersRemember when Amazon started removing various kinds of erotica from its store? It’s happening again, this time with a number of independent e-publishing sites such as All Romance and Smashwords. Today, Nate Hoffelder called attention to an e-mail from Mark Coker of Smashwords to authors who publish through the platform. Coker reported that PayPal had

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  How Rumored Amazon Tablet Credit Card Payment Could Work

  2036 readersRumors are flying high that Amazon is about to release a new tablet, or potentially two new tablets this fall. Jeff Bezos didn’t even deny this fact in an interview with Consumer Reports. With the tablet seemingly in development, everyone wants t...

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  Morning Brief: Central banks work in tandem to stem credit crunch; U.K. public workers strike over pensions; RIM will begin offering iPhone and other handset support

  811 readersThe credit crunch in Europe is reaching crisis levels (one of the reasons TNM continues to mention events in Morning Brief). The Italian bond rates, for instance, spiked well over 7 percent this week, causing observers to wonder if there was any way the country could avoid default. Today six central banks acted to try and

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  Mitek Mobile Photo BillPay Technology Allows You to Pay Bills by Taking Their Photo

  352 readersBanks have been allowing users to make deposits by taking photos of paper checks, but U.S. Bank wants to use that technology to help you pay your bills. The bank’s new mobile feature uses Mitek’s Mobile Photo BillPay –  a software that uses a phone’s photographic technology to extract payee, account numbers, and payment amount

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  Glyph App Helps You Organize Your Credit Card Points

  251 readers“The average American misses out on $600 per year in credit card rewards,” reads the Glyph website. Glyph promises to help make sure that users don’t miss out on these benefits. Using the Glyph iOS app, you can track the benefits from all of your rewards credit card programs and keep track of points and miles without