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Amazon offers cheap shop space
News Small businesses may see zShops as a natural evolution from Amazon's auction business, said analyst Rebecca Nidositko at Yankee Group. There's a level of slowness that can be part of an auction. The zShops program takes Amazon a step closer to a...
[September 30, 1999, 11:00]
Sony reacts quickly to game hack
News The players then began trying to sell the ill-gotten platinum on Station Exchange, the official auction exchange for EQ2 weapons, armour, currency and other virtual goods. The auction system allows EQ2 players who wish to buy or sell the game's...
[August 12, 2005, 18:00]
2000 Roundup: A mixed year for mobiles
News No sooner was the UK auction over, but analysts were declaring that such high costs would cripple operators, a point raised again by the Bank of England in December. Governments across Europe were seen as the real winners, with the UK's 3G auction...
[December 3, 2000, 6:12]
Wi-Fi: Coming soon on board US planes?
News FCC's turbulent auction News of AirCell's Wi-Fi plans follows an FCC announcement that the company and JetBlue Airways emerged as the top bidders in an auction of two wireless bands that concluded Friday.
[June 6, 2006, 11:05]
Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 8
News These updates are generally created in co-ordination with Microsoft's commercial partners so, for instance, the progress of a selected eBay auction can be constantly monitored without having to visit eBay itself.
[March 19, 2009, 3:00]
Microsoft launches 'B2B' auctions
News The FairMarket network links several auction sites together, including Lycos, Excite@Home, Xoom.com, CompUSA, Dell and Outpost.com. Microsoft said it is working with FairMarket SM to develop the service, which will be linked to FairMarket's network.
[February 2, 2000, 9:06]
EBay restricts email access
News Meanwhile, the Software and Information Industry Association reported last week that people who sell pirated software via online auction sites have begun to contact auction bidders directly, rather than by setting up actual auctions.
[February 1, 2001, 13:27]
Win2000: Going once, going twice ...
News A report issued last week by the Software Information Industry Association indicated that most of the software found on auction sites was pirated. Yet in the past week 23 copies of Windows 2000 have been put up for auction on the eBay Web site from...
[April 25, 2000, 16:12]
Council workers lose jobs over eBay 'addiction'
Blog One council worker has been sacked, and two have lost their jobs over spending too much time on auction site eBay, reports the BBC. Apparently some of the the staff members at Neath Port Talbot were spending up to two hours a day on eBay and...
[September 21, 2007, 15:23]
Bidder's Edge defies eBay legal threat
News Last month, eBay cracked down on auction portals that allow users to search multiple portals for items.eBay claimed that the listings on its site were intellectual property and sent cease and desist letters to third-party search engines that were...
[November 3, 1999, 10:27]
eBay sellers strike planned
News A group of eBay traders has called a one-day strike for Tuesday 15 August claiming that the auction site has made listings less visible and raised fees for bulk sellers. The auction site also raised some of the fees it charges sellers.
[August 14, 2006, 13:20]
eBay and AOL extend marketing pact
News Such ad sales comprised about 5 percent of eBay's revenue in the second quarter.eBay and AOL signed a four-year agreement in 1999, in which eBay agreed to pay the giant ISP $75m to promote its auction site on AOL's Web sites and online service.
[August 14, 2001, 10:06]
EBay starts to track sellers' footsteps
News EBay will use VeriSign to authenticate its auction sellers under a deal the companies plan to announce on Wednesday. Meanwhile, consumers submit tens of thousands of reports of online auction fraud to the Federal Trade Commission and other consumer...
[May 8, 2002, 14:37]
Microsoft selects uBid for .Net
News Microsoft has lined up another partner for its .Net technology, with CMGI's uBid auction network agreeing to use the software giant's Passport authentication service and other Internet services. UBid will become the "premier provider" of content...
[December 5, 2001, 10:54]
EBay posts big jump in fourth-quarter sales
News Online auction giant eBay said on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 64 percent, as its earnings surpassed Wall Street expectations. s Japanese auction site. One area of continued trouble for eBay is in its offline operations, including...
[January 16, 2002, 12:02]
eBay acts over privacy fears
News Internet auction house eBay will make changes to its site after discussions with the UK's Information Commissioner and civil rights group Privacy International. Privacy International is concerned that many Web sites make it very hard for users to...
[September 27, 2006, 16:40]
Watchdogs bark at eBay's privacy update
News But some privacy and auction watchdogs decried the changes, calling them anything but routine. The changes, which the online auction giant announced on Monday, will go into effect on 19 March for all consumers who register with the site after that...
[February 27, 2002, 15:47]
Gun massacre teenagers may have used eBay to buy guns
News The San Francisco Examiner reported today that agents for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) are investigating auction sites as a source for the weapons used in the massacre.eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove said today that he had not...
[April 29, 1999, 16:27]
Deadbeat eBay bidders flagged by start-up
News Anyone who has marketed more than a handful of items on eBay or other auction sites has probably run into the type. At least one industry watcher feels that DeadBeater could strike a chord with the auction giant's customers.
[August 27, 2004, 10:50]
Microsoft starts software fraud campaign
News The software giant will also focus on online retail and auction sites, which can be a popular source of unlicensed software. Microsoft has launched a campaign in the UK in an attempt to cut use of counterfeit and other unlicensed software in...
[February 16, 2006, 13:55]
