PayPal, the online payments firm owned by eBay, plans to create 1,000 new jobs in Ireland.

Youthful tech CEOs take over (Reuters), Foursquare splits its engineering duties (AllThingsD), Amazon plots takeover of central Seattle (FINS via WSJ) and more. For all the news you need throughout the day, follow techFINSider on Twitter and Facebook.

Not many of us are 6-foot-3 Harvard graduates who can play at the level of professional basketball. That hasn't kept career coaches, along with t-shirt, sneaker and other tchotchke-makers, from cashing in on the Jeremy Lin phenomenon at the New York Knicks.

Amazon is purchasing property in central Seattle with plans to construct about 3 million square feet of office space.

Tech workers as a percentage of the total declines (WSJ), Microsoft exec talks about the Arab Spring (FINS), Goldman Sachs programmer has conviction overturned (DealBook) and more. For all the news you need throughout the day, follow techFINSider on Twitter and Facebook.

Even before the Arab Spring erupted last year, Microsoft executive Ali Faramawy knew he had a cool job. As the company vice president in charge of the Middle East and Africa, Faramawy was doing business in one of the world's most dangerous and volatile regions, but also one of its largest untapped technology markets.

The architects behind Lady Gaga's social media campaign have raised around $4.5 million to solve what has become the Valley's biggest pain point for growing start-ups: hiring.