Online auction juggernaut eBay celebrates 10 years in the bidding biz
Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first people to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon in 1999. It was also the year 55 per cent of Australians voted against becoming a republic in a referendum, and New Zealand elected its first female prime minister, Helen Clark. It was also the year that eBay launched its Australian online auction site.
The suit was filed by a man banned from eBay for selling used Autocad software
A Seattle judge ruled in favor of a man arguing that he has the right to sell secondhand software, in a case that had some people worried about an end to used-book and CD stores.
They will be able to build home page applications using the Yahoo Application Platform
Yahoo is opening its newly redesigned home page to external developers so that they can build applications for it, the company said Tuesday.
Dean Nelson is the latest in a series of top data-center executives to switch companies
The man in charge of Sun Microsystems' global data-center strategy and a noted speaker on data-center energy efficiency is leaving Sun to work at eBay, he said on Tuesday.
When eBay bought Skype, it had hoped the VoIP service would improve communications between its customers
The future looked bright in September 2005 when eBay announced it was buying Internet telephony company Skype Technologies for $2.6 billion. But after four years of unfulfilled expectations, the marriage between the online auction giant and the upstart VoIP provider came to an end Tuesday when eBay said it was unloading Skype to a group of private investors for $1.9 billion.
A group including Marc Andreessen's new investment firm plans to buy the VoIP company
EBay plans to announce a deal to sell its Skype voice-over-IP service to a group of private investors, The New York Times reported on its Web site, citing people briefed on the company's plans.
Plan was to mesh Skype with eBay marketplace to boost communications and commerce
EBay has reached an agreement to sell a 65 percent stake in its Skype Internet telephony, video conferencing and instant messaging unit for $1.9 billion in cash to an investor group led by Silver Lake.
Transaction values Skype at $2.75 billion
EBay Tuesday announced it has signed an agreement to sell its Skype voice-over-IP service to a group of private investors in a deal that values the business at US$2.75 billion.
Second-place Yahoo trails far behind
The latest worldwide statistics for search engine queries don't paint a pretty picture for Google competitors.
This is the latest milestone for eBay's ambitious project to turn Selling Manager into an application repository
EBay's ambitious project to remake its Selling Manager set of e-commerce tools into an open platform and repository of third-party applications reached another milestone on Monday when it was opened to the marketplace's sellers.
Hackers could access account information, company says
Members of the eBay Developers Program must change their account passwords because the e-commerce company recently discovered a way in which account information could be accessed by malicious hackers.
If you're looking for something specific and your searches come up empty, give eBay's saved searches a try
You can buy and sell just about anything on eBay. Millions of people use it every day. But few of them know all the ins and outs of using the world's biggest and best Internet auction site. The following tools will put you well on your way toward becoming an expert.
The first buyer of his laptop used a hacked account, the second tried to trick him into sending it without payment
When security expert Bruce Schneier tried to sell a used laptop on eBay, he thought it would be easy. Instead, a sale was aborted twice -- first by a scammer using a hacked eBay account and then by a buyer who tried to trick Schneier into sending her the laptop after she cancelled payment.
But eBay could do more to police its site, according to judgment
EBay cannot be held legally accountable for the sale of fake L'Oreal goods, including perfumes and face creams, on its Web site, according to a decision in the U.K. High Court.
A Supreme Court decision is hurting Internet business and consumers, critics say
A two-year-old court decision allowing manufacturers to set the minimum prices that retailers can charge for their products is driving up prices U.S. buyers pay for a range of products and hurting Internet sellers, three witnesses told a U.S. Senate subcommittee Tuesday.