The largest and most popular online payment company Paypal opened it’s international headquarters and development center in Singapore yesterday, 6th November 2007. This will effectively create more than 200 tech jobs for the IT job market in Singapore.

The HQ, at Neil Road, will serve the global market excluding US and Canada. It will serve as Paypal’s development center where products and new features for the payment service will be done.

It is predicted that the international online payment business will be bigger than its North American market by next year as more and more people goes online to make purchases and transfer money. Currently, there are more than 164 million Paypal accounts in the world with $17.4 billion in transactions in the third quarter of this year alone.

Yet again this shows that the Singapore Government has done a great job for making Singapore the number choice for many foreign companies to choose Singapore as their regional and international headquarters.

All Paypal user please be alert that there’s a Paypal survey fraud going around. This time it’s a survery fraud. Fraud is never ending. All kinds of fraud happened - be it online and offline. It was Nigerian who are good at it but the China people are going all out nowadays. I bet most of you recall many were caught being greedy by the prize fraud by China companies.

Recently, these people from Chinese sees new opportunity in getting it with Paypal users. Mr. Larry Lim got a call from a Chinese guy (number +862128913333) from China pretending to do survey on Paypal’s behalf. He asked for Paypal email and registered address to “verify” his identity. The scary part is that this Chinese guy also has the last 4 digit of his credit card number. Please be aware that revealing these info will enable them to get the password of your account.

So do not give out your information to anyone who calls you to do Paypal survey on the phone. This applies to emails regarding such things as Paypal will announce such activities on their website. Check before you give out you information!

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Barely less than 24 hours after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) was official released and on sale, news were spreading all over the internet that digital copies of the famous seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling are available for download at bit torrent (BT) sites.

Someone has apparently photographed patiently all the 759 page book American version page by page into photos and make it into an ebook. I wonder how long he took to do that. It must be hell of a work there.

Another version is a typed version of the final installment of Harry Potter series. So you can now enjoy the fun of Harry Potter with these free downloads.

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Viacom is suing Google in a billion dollar lawsuit for a massive copyright infringement by Youtube. In a statement while filing for the lawsuit, Viacom said that “Their business model, which is based on building traffic and selling advertising of unlicensed content, is clearly illegal and is in obvious conflict with copyright laws.”

Viacom’s empire includes a lot of youth-oriented TV networks, for instance MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon as well as the Paramount and Dreamworks movie studios.

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