PayPal wants to get into space payments. Space tourism is possibly a thing of the near future — the company Virgin has scheduled its first consumer space flight for the end of this year.

Could electronic wallets become as common as cellphones? Paypal and Google sure hope so. But Mastercard has a plan for this future, too.

The death of a freedom of information campaigner and accused hacker is prompting a bid to change federal law on computer abuse and fraud. Aaron Swartz, 26, killed himself on Friday as he awaited trial for breaking into MIT’s computer system to make public subscription-only academic journals in a database called J-Stor. Professor James Grimmelmann […]

Paypal, the world's largest online payment processor, offers a new service to real-world merchants. What does this mean for rival Square?

It's the Do They Know It's Christmas of phishing!

The leak site has temporarily shut down in order to go into an aggressive fund raising mode. Yeah, it's something we've heard from a million arts…

It's the first day of the company's X.commerce conference. Reuters reports eBay is expected to announce deeper Facebook integration today. It's…

PayPal showed off its new payment system yesterday to a select group of retailers.. The company is betting that merchants will be more likely to…

Looks like we're seeing some tangible results of virtual crimes. 14 Anonymouseurs, in nine states, have been arrested due to their suspected…