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Online marketplace eBay Inc exceeded Wall Street profit estimates for its holiday fourth quarter, helped by more items sold and at higher prices, and gave a bullish 2011 outlook.

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is preparing for a potential onslaught of embarrassing and perhaps damaging information about the bank from Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, according to a report in the New York Times.

S&P Equity Research predicts big developments for the Internet segment in 2011, including continuing challenges for Google, changes at Yahoo, and a cloud offering from Apple.

American online payment service provider Paypal said it will help establish an international e-commerce hub in southwestern China to cash in on the nation’s fast-growing Internet sales market.

Even as world leaders are still trying to cope with the recent flood of global political secrets leaked by the whistle-blower site Wikileaks, its founder Julian Assange is all set to write his autobiography promising more in the offing. Speaking to the Sunday Times, the 39-year-old Australian announced that he had signed deals worth $1.5 million for publishing his memoirs.

By getting rid of cash, nations around the world might be able to significantly reduce organized crime and political terrorism since those activities are heavily reliant on easy accessibility to dollars, euros, pounds sterling, yen and other paper currencies.

Apple's censorship sword falls on Wikileaks app as it is purged from iTunes App Store.

Bank of America has banned transactions to whistle-blower site Wikileaks since Friday, according to media reports. The Obama Administration earlier urged financial organizations to sever ties with the site for illegally releasing confidential US diplomatic cables.

NEW YORK, Dec 17 - Legal hurdles could make it tough for U.S. prosecutors to go after pro-WikiLeaks hackers who waged cyber attacks last week on Visa, MasterCard, PayPal and other companies.

After Google’s payment platform “Checkout” now Rovio, the maker of Angry Birds has launched an in-app carrier-billing payment system.

Global Payment firm MasterCard said it is experiencing heavy traffic on its external corporate website - MasterCard.com.

Hackers, possibly in retaliation for attacks on Wikileaks, forced down the website of the international credit card service MasterCard on Wednesday and warned PayPal they could be next. PayPal has admitted that the US Government was behind the company's decision to sever ties with Wikileaks.

Hackers forced down the website of the international credit card service, MasterCard, on Wednesday. The move is likely to be an apparent revenge by alleged Wikileaks supporters. In what they called Operation: Payback, the anonymous hackers announced on twitter that they successfully brought down the MasterCard website with DDoS attacks. MasterCard had earlier severed ties with the whistle-blower site, suspending all payments to the organization. The website currently remains inaccessible...

Ebay CEO John Donahoe said cell phones are the future wallets as the company makes a strong push to mobile.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is behind bars in London, facing extradition to Sweden where he is charged with rape and sexual molestation in two separate cases.

Social networking site Facebook has no plans to ban content from a 'fan page' associated with WikiLeaks-at least, as of now.

As part of its 'Operation Avenge Assange,' a group of Wikileaks supporters called The Anonymous plans a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Paypal.

After Paypal and Swiss authorities closed the accounts of Wikileaks, it's Mastercard's turn to refuse any financial support to Wikileaks' money transfers.

Online payment service PayPal said it has suspended the WikiLeaks' account that the organization used to collect donations.

US Administration, by all means, is trying to win over Wikileaks, firstly by ousting it from the servers and now by blocking its transaction by Paypal. But the whistle-blower group is highly unlikely to accept defeat. In possession of over 25,0000 United States diplomatic cables, the group would only force the Government worldwide into a war of attrition.

Key carriers AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile officially announced their partnership to create ISIS, a national mobile commerce platform, to make mobile wallet a reality.