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PayPal helps restaurant customers avoid waiters

PayPal plans to push a new pay-at-your-table feature in its mobile app in Australia early next year following trials in Sydney and Melbourne, the company has revealed.
Startup snapshot: Bluedot

Adelaide startup Bluedot has developed geolocation software that uses the precise location of a person’s smartphone for payments.
Facebook will shut down Beacon to settle lawsuit

Facebook has agreed to shut down its much maligned Beacon advertising system in order to settle a class-action lawsuit.
Facebook's Beacon 'returns' for some bloggers

Facebook's Beacon advertising system found itself in the midst of a blogosphere brouhaha Thursday after two Facebook developers posted about Beacon "returning" to the social network and its partner sites.

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