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  • eBay Australia celebrates its 10th birthday 09/10/2009 15:40:00

    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.
  • In Autodesk case, judge rules secondhand sales OK 02/10/2009 06:39:00

    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.
  • Yahoo opens new home page to external developers 30/09/2009 01:52:00

    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.
  • Sun's data-center chief moves to eBay 09/09/2009 05:44:00

    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.
  • The Skype, eBay divorce: How did it go wrong? 02/09/2009 08:36:00

    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.
  • Report: eBay to sell Skype to group of private investors 02/09/2009 06:10:00

    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.
  • EBay to sell majority stake in Skype for US$1.9 billion 02/09/2009 04:35:00

    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.
  • EBay reaches deal to sell Skype 02/09/2009 00:26:00

    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.
  • Study: Google pulls away in global search usage 01/09/2009 07:56:00

    Second-place Yahoo trails far behind
    The latest worldwide statistics for search engine queries don't paint a pretty picture for Google competitors.
  • EBay gives merchants access to Selling Manager applications 18/08/2009 06:46:00

    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.
  • eBay requires developers to change their account passwords 12/08/2009 05:05:00

    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.
  • eBay expert tips: How to find what you want 22/07/2009 00:48:00

    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.
  • Fraudsters try to scam security expert on eBay 23/06/2009 03:23:00

    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.
  • EBay win against L'Oreal in UK High Court 25/05/2009 07:48:00

    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.
  • EBay, others want end to retail price-fixing 20/05/2009 06:40:00

    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.
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