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CNET
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Auction giant eBay has launched an online classifieds service that will compete with market pioneer, Craigslist.
Kijiji, a site eBay has operated overseas for two years, is now available in about 220 cities across the United States, spokesman Hani Durz..
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Times Online
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There was encouraging news for the growing army of Google-haters yesterday when a leading internet advertising researcher suggested that the search engine’s stranglehold on online promotions was looser than he had expected.
Bill Tancer, a research an..
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Computer World
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EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be seen in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
However, eBay kept its AdWor..
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BBC News
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Internet auction site eBay has bought StumbleUpon, a website that recommends other websites, for $75m.
The deal means eBay will get access to almost 2.5 million registered users, who recommend sites to each other.
Users get search results that are b..
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ABC News
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In the months before his shooting spree at Virginia Tech, Seung-Hui Cho purchased two ammunition clips through the online auction site eBay, ABCNews has learned.
An eBay spokesman confirmed the sale to the Associated Press late today after separate inv..
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SF Gate
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When it comes to paying income taxes, eBay's legions of small-time entrepreneurs are on an honor system in which they are supposed to declare their profits to the Internal Revenue Service. Many users, however, ignore the law or are unaware of their obliga..
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BusinessWeek
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PayPal—and other electronic payment services—are wooing more and more consumers and merchants, and becoming the quiet stars of e-commerce
A disappointing revenue forecast and news that longtime eBay (EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman would soon retire overshad..
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BusinessWeek
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By cutting fees for big sales and boosting defenses against fraud, eBay shows it's listening to top-flight users. But what about the little guy?
New management at eBay (EBAY) wants to send the message that it's listening to users' complaints. It did th..
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BBC News
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Meg Whitman, the chief executive of auction website eBay has resigned after a decade at the helm of the firm.
She will step down on 31 March and is set to be replaced by John Donahoe, who is currently in charge of the firm's main auction business, eBay..
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BusinessWeek
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John Donahoe will concentrate on winning back users, even at investors' expense
For three years, as the stock of eBay (EBAY) has slid, Chief Executive Meg Whitman has asked investors for patience. On Jan. 23, when the online auction site announced that..
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BusinessWeek
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Online retailers, bracing for a record holiday season, say their busiest day will come in December's second week; eBay calls it "Green Monday"
Two years ago, a group of savvy marketers deemed the first workday after Thanksgiving the biggest online shop..
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BBC News
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Three council workers have lost their jobs for spending too long on the internet auction site eBay.
One was sacked and two resigned after managers at Neath Port Talbot Council found some staff were spending up to two hours a day on the website.
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BBC News
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Auction website eBay has pulled its US advertising from search engine giant and adversary Google.
The move comes after Google angered eBay with a provocative decision to hold an event on the same evening as eBay's annual merchants' conference.
Googl..
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Computer World
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A contrite Google Inc. canceled a party that irked eBay Inc. and -- according to a source -- prompted the online auction firm to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week.
On Monday, Google announced it would throw a party in B..
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Yahoo News
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eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News) today announced it has acquired StumbleUpon, an early-stage company that helps people discover and share content online, for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $75 million. This acquisition will provide eBay wit..
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Los Angeles Times
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EBay Inc., the world's largest online auctioneer, added Spanish, French and Chinese websites for its PayPal payment services unit to help boost its overseas sales and extend its lead over Google Inc.'s rival Checkout service.
PayPal added service to 87..
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BusinessWeek
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The chipmaker is throwing its weight behind a service that aims to dethrone eBay's PC-to-PC calling business
For more than two years, Intel has worked with Web-calling leader Skype, but on May 9, the mammoth chipmaker announced a partnership that could..
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Yahoo News
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An intern with the National Archives stole about 165 Civil War documents including the War Department's announcement of President Lincoln's death and sold most of them on eBay, prosecutors charged Thursday.
Denning McTague, who runs a Web site th..
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MSNBC
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It may be the stickiest scam on the Internet — a nine-year saga o deceit that has seen thousands o altered postage stamps sold to unwitting collectors on eBay and other Internet auction sites. More striking than its longe ity, though, is that the mast..
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