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  • July 2008

    • Tips to Avoid Online Scams

      newser  |  Forbes  |  Jul 17, 08 1:29 PM CDT

      Tips to Avoid Online Scams

      If it looks too good to be true, it might be. Counterfeit goods are no stranger to sites as mainstream as eBay, so you'll want to take a few precautions to avoid forking it over for a fake. Forbes outlines tips for a safe and reliable e-shopping spree. Know what to look for: Before purchasing a pricey purse item, read a corresponding authenticity guide. Written by legitimate sellers, you'll learn what to look for, from genuine monogram placement to label fonts. More »

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      Internet  • eBay  • online auction  • scam  • online shopping

    • EBay Wins Pivotal Tiffany Counterfeit Suit

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 14, 08 6:11 PM CDT

      EBay Wins Pivotal Tiffany Counterfeit Suit

      A US judge ruled today that eBay had taken sufficient steps to stop the sale of fake Tiffany jewelry, the Wall Street Journal reports. Ruling on a suit filed by the New York-based jeweler, the judge deemed Tiffany responsible for monitoring its trademark. It was a pivotal victory for eBay, which has been forced to pay millions to luxury-goods makers in Europe. More »

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      eBay  • luxury goods  • counterfeit  • consumer goods  • Tiffany's

  • June 2008

    • Luxe Knockoffs Cost eBay $63M

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 30, 08 4:48 PM CDT

      Luxe Knockoffs Cost eBay $63M

      A French court sided today with couturier Louis Vuitton in a suit against eBay, ruling the auctioneer must pay $63.1 million in damages for fake goods sold on its site—a ruling the Wall Street Journal says will force eBay to step up anti-counterfeiting protections. EBay says it will appeal the judgment, its second recent defeat in French courts. More »

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      France  • eBay  • Louis Vuitton  • counterfeit  • Christian Dior

    • Investor Wins $2.1M Lunch With Buffett

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Jun 29, 08 1:37 PM CDT

      Investor Wins $2.1M Lunch With Buffett

      A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay. Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening with a bid of $2,110,100. More »

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      eBay  • auction  • charity  • Warren Buffett  • investor

    • Aussie Man's Life Fetches $2M on eBay

      newser  |  West Australian  |  Jun 23, 08 9:45 AM CDT

      Aussie Man's Life Fetches $2M on eBay

      An Australia resident may rake in over $2 million after he put his life—including his house, job, and friends—for sale on eBay, the Western Australian reports. The deal, which the man says hatched when his wife left him, comes complete with a jet ski and motorcycle. The reserve price was some $475,000, but bidders have now offered over $2 million. More »

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      Australia  • eBay  • Perth

    • Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust

      newser  |  Economist  |  Jun 20, 08 4:45 PM CDT

      Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust

      Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon emerged from the dot-com bust as a mighty triumvirate, but only Amazon has kept its mojo in the decade's latter stages, the Economist reports. Yahoo, the oldest of the lot at 14, shooed away Microsoft, surrendered part of its business to Google, and failed to stay current. It survives, “but on the web’s equivalent of life support." More »

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      Internet  • Google  • Yahoo  • eBay  • Jerry Yang  • Jeff Bezos  • John Donahoe  • Amazon

    • EBay Will Open Doors to Outside Programmers

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jun 17, 08 6:34 PM CDT

      EBay Will Open Doors to Outside Programmers

      EBay has revealed a plan to let third-party software programs work within its Selling Manager, a tool used by 700,000 large merchants. Project Echo is the latest landmark in an openness movement that helped Facebook hit its stride, Reuters reports, as independent developers will soon have their software promoted on the auction giant. More »

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      Facebook  • eBay  • software developers  • third parties

    • eBay Auctions: Going, Going ... Gone?

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Jun 4, 08 12:49 PM CDT

      eBay Auctions: Going, Going ... Gone?

      EBay is the Internet’s top auction site—which would be great if consumers still liked auctions. Long gone are days when consumers happily stalked their prey, which went to the top dog in frenzied bidding. These days, most prefer quick, one-click, fixed-price shopping—and eBay is scrambling to accommodate them, BusinessWeek reports. Old-school auction sellers, meanwhile, are furious. More »

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      eBay  • online auction  • e-commerce

    • Web Looks Different When You're Not Chained to Desk

      newser  |  BusinessWeek  |  Jun 1, 08 10:44 AM CDT

      Web Looks Different When You're Not Chained to Desk

      Mobile web surfers are turning conventional wisdom on its head by traveling to a different constellation of sites than those visited from workday PCs, BusinessWeek reports. The “Weekend Web” relies not on Google, Yahoo, and MySpace, but rather on Craigslist, eBay, the Weather Channel and MapQuest—and don't think tech-industry and marketing giants aren't noticing. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • Yahoo  • eBay  • Craigslist  • web surfing  • mobile devices

  • May 2008

    • Germany Seizes 'eBay Baby'

      newser  |  BBC  |  May 24, 08 6:53 PM CDT

      Germany Seizes 'eBay Baby'

      Germany has taken a seven-month-old baby from his parents after they tried to sell him on eBay, the BBC reports. The yet-unnamed child was advertised as “nearly-new” and had a starting price of one euro. “It was only a joke,” the child’s mother said. “I just wanted to see if someone would make an offer.” More »

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      Germany  • eBay  • parenting  • baby  • child abuse  • social services

    • Craigslist Countersues eBay

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 14, 08 9:40 AM CDT

      Craigslist Countersues eBay

      The battle between Craigslist and eBay heated up yesterday after Craigslist filed a countersuit charging the auction giant—which holds a 28.4% stake in Craigslist—with offenses ranging from unfair competition to trademark infringement, the New York Times reports. The action is in response to eBay’s lawsuit filed last month, and is being driven by eBay’s launch of its own classified listings, Kijiji.com. More »

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      Internet  • eBay  • civil lawsuits  • Craigslist  • competition

    • List Guy Craig Branches Out

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 12, 08 10:40 AM CDT

      List Guy Craig Branches Out

      Everyone knows Craigslist, but Craig himself is getting a little restless. Craig Newmark is spending more time and money on outside projects, the New York Times reports, even with his company in a high-profile tiff with eBay. Newmark, 55, says he spends half his time on customer-service issues, the other half on public-service projects and causes like Barack Obama's campaign. More »

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      Barack Obama  • eBay  • journalism  • Craigslist  • classified ads  • Craig Newmark

    • Craigslist Feared eBay Takeover

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 1, 08 5:10 PM CDT

      Craigslist Feared eBay Takeover

      Why did eBay sue Craigslist last week? Craiglist's fear of a hostile takeover played a role, the New York Times reports. The relationship between the classified ads site and minority shareholder eBay began to sour after eBay launched rival site Kijiji. Craigslist’s directors smelled a takeover in the offing and reorganized their stock to reduce the auction giant’s holding from 28.04% to 24.85%. EBay lost its right to elect a director—and sued. More »

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      lawsuit  • eBay  • Craigslist  • classified ads  • Kijiji

  • April 2008

    • 50 Ways to Hock Your Lover

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 26, 08 12:08 PM CDT

      50 Ways to Hock Your Lover

      Diamonds really are a girl's best friend, especially when auctioned off to sympathetic sisters on ExBoyfriendJewelry.com. EBay offers goods without much backstory, but the founders of the gem-hocking site put a personal twist on swapping, selling, and auctioning artifacts of toxic relationships, the New York Times reports. More »

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      divorce  • eBay  • website  • love  • jewelry  • break-up

    • Okla. Man Buys Santa Monica Ferris Wheel

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 26, 08 9:19 AM CDT

      Okla. Man Buys Santa Monica Ferris Wheel

      The Santa Monica Pier Ferris wheel has been sold on eBay for $132,400—to a first-time eBayer and the son of a former Oklahoma City mayor, the Los Angeles Times reports. Grant Humphreys, a 32-year-old real estate developer who'd never set eyes on the crowd-pleaser, placed the winning bid yesterday just before the close of the auction that drew six bidders. More »

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      California  • eBay  • Oklahoma City  • amusement parks  • Santa Monica

    • EBay Sues Craigslist as 'Family' Kerfuffle Gets Nasty

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 23, 08 3:15 AM CDT

      EBay Sues Craigslist as 'Family' Kerfuffle Gets Nasty

      The uneasy relationship between Craigslist and eBay, its competitor-turned-minority shareholder, has taken a turn for the worse. EBay has filed a lawsuit against Craigslist, accusing the classified ad site of "unfairly" diluting the auction giant's stake in it by 10%, the New York Times reports. Craigslist has fired back, calling eBay "unethical" and accusing it of aiming for a hostile takeover. More »

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      eBay  • Craigslist  • classified ads  • Craig Newmark  • Kijiji

    • Skype Launches $9.95 Plan for Unlimited Foreign Calls

      newser  |  CNET  |  Apr 22, 08 7:48 AM CDT

      Skype Launches $9.95 Plan for Unlimited Foreign Calls

      Internet calling system Skype is introducing a plan for unlimited overseas phone calls for $9.95 a month, CNET reports. The plan includes 34 European and Far Eastern countries, along with Australia and New Zealand—but the deal is limited to landlines except for calls to cell phones in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The plan also includes unlimited domestic calls in the US. More »

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      Internet  • eBay  • Skype  • IP telephony  • VOIP

    • eBay Profits Jump 22% Under New CEO

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 16, 08 6:50 PM CDT

      eBay Profits Jump 22% Under New CEO

      EBay's revenue soared 24% in the first quarter, the Wall Street Journal reports, with profits up 22%. Fueled by continued success with its online auction business and PayPal, its online-payment component, the company also raised its projected 2008 earnings to $8.7 billion to $9 billion, well beyond Wall Street expectations. More »

    • EBay's Turnaround Bid: Users Not Buying It Now

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 16, 08 8:57 AM CDT

      EBay's Turnaround Bid: Users Not Buying It Now

      When eBay releases its first quarter earnings today, investors and curious onlookers will get a good look at the auctioneer’s turnaround efforts. But conventional grumbling has it that the changes haven’t done much. EBay overhauled its fee structure and tried to encourage sellers to improve customer service, but buyers don’t seem to be responding, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »

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      eBay  • quarterly earnings  • John Donahoe  • e-commerce

    • Internet Bigwigs Fight NY Law on Tracking Web Users

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 10, 08 4:15 PM CDT

      Internet Bigwigs Fight NY Law on Tracking Web Users

      Google, Yahoo and a bevy of Internet biggies have joined to fight a proposed New York state law that would limit their ability to collect information about people's web habits for advertisers, reports the Wall Street Journal . The coalition says the law would endanger the future of online advertising and “the availability of free content on the Internet.” More »

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      Google  • Yahoo  • eBay  • Internet advertising  • Comcast  • AOL  • Time Warner

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