PayPal rolls out in-store payment at Bay Area Home Depot stores

PayPal sets up checkout systems at Bay Area Home Depots that require just a phone number and key code or a card.

Recording phone calls for broadcast

Darryl is working for a community radio station and needs to record telephone interviews. What's the best approach? Do you have any recommendations for equipment and programs to record telephone interviews for radio packages, please? I'm a trainee broadcast assistant working for a community radio station. Schedules don't always facilitate face-to-face interviews, but people will usually respond ...

Hard economic times sharpen Spaniards' sneaky side

Leather seats are disappearing from cars. Precious jewels are vanishing from drawers. TVs are spirited out of homes in the dead of night.

Woman pleads guilty to running fraudulent online eBay scheme

A Charleston woman pled guilty to mail on Thursday.  39-year-old Ashley Turner Doyle admitted to conducting an internet auction fraud scheme on eBay selling knock-off jewelry as genuine and also sometimes failing to deliver any jewelry to paying customers between January 2006 and February 2009.

A look at recent tech-industry earnings

Here is a summary of recent earnings and reports for selected technology companies and what they reveal about the state of spending and the overall economy:Jan. 18: EBay Inc. says its net income grew sharply ...