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iFive: Microsoft-Skype Deal, Google's Music Starts Today, Foursquare Tries NFC, Tumblr's "Share" Button, Twitter Adds Pay Tweets

It's a busy Tuesday morning already--here's what's been going on in the news:READ»

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iFive: Nokia Job Losses and Microsoft Deal, Sony Move to Be Hackable, PayPal Micropayments, iPhone Mini, Egypt Phone Encryption

Friday's here, the weekend is imminent so let us get you up to speed quickly with the early innovation news:READ»

Meet Philanthroper: The Daily Deal Site With a Charitable Heart

Daily-deal and coupon sites are the vogue at the moment--Groupon's the one you'll think of. But now there's a new one, that's kinda the same and kinda not. Meet Philanthroper, a daily deal site that showcases new non-profits, and gives you the chance to donate.READ»

PayPal to Reinvent Micropayments

PayPal's long been the daddy of online payment systems, but it sees a future in facilitating one of the more interesting, and fast-growing online financial tricks: Micropayments.READ»

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Forget Freemium App Sales, Meet Causium: The Charity Business Model

In the Interwebs era, there seem to be as many business models as colors in the rainbow ... yet few have the charitable cachet of "Causium." This is a wildly successful and public-spirited invention by software company Atlassian.Just ...READ»

PayPal Reminds Everyone They're Still in the Mobile Payments Game

In the wake of MasterCard's opening of its API to app writers, PayPal teases its future smartphone payment tech. With Visa in the game too, things could get feisty.READ»

Hard-Up Miami Herald Virtually Begs for Charity Micropayments

Ruh-roh...this sounds like a very sour note at the end of a year that's seen many traditional newspapers and magazines hit trouble: The Miami Herald is so strapped for cash it's soliciting charitable Web donations on a per-story ...READ»

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Amazon Brings One-Click Buying to Mobile Apps

Amazon's patented one-click purchasing has been the boon companion of plenty of impulse purchases. Now the retailer is looking to bring the one-click experience to mobile phones for businesses that use its PayPal competitor, Amazon ...READ»

Google Wants to Save Newspapers With a Micropayment Engine

We know Google loves to jab its fingers into many different pies, but this latest effort is interesting: Google's developing a micropayment engine, and looks to be courting the ailing newspaper industry as customers for its ...READ»