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FBI: Auction fraud tops Net scam list
News The Internet Fraud Complaint Center, a joint operation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the National White Collar Crime Center, said on Wednesday that auction fraud accounted for nearly 43 percent of the complaints received from victims...
[April 10, 2002, 14:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Over in the US, auction house Christie's is having a sale of computer documentation. By now, there can't be any new digital product that doesn't announce its arrival with a shower of new online information, and all aspects of its inception, design...
[February 4, 2005, 16:35]
Police to sell off missing goods online
News Fifteen police forces across Britain have signed up for the project which will involve e-commerce company iForce and Internet auction site eBay. Police forces around the UK plan to put stolen goods on a Web site where they can be reclaimed by a...
[November 21, 2000, 16:12]
Aussie escrow service faked online
News Trade Secure is the escrow services company recommended by auction Web site eBay Australia for purchases over A$400 (£157). The directors of escrow services provider Trade Secure are considering closing down the company after discovering that...
[July 21, 2004, 10:20]
FreeMarkets Improves Performance of Online Auctions Using SQL Server and Windows Datacenter Server
White Papers Since deploying these products, FreeMarkets has realized a 50-percent increase in systems availability, a 20-percent decrease in maintenance/administration costs, and a projected 70-percent increase in auction capacity.
[December 2, 2008, 23:00]
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]
Auction sites host Kosovo benefit
News All proceeds from the auction will go directly to the organisation's Kosovo fund.
[April 13, 1999, 7:33]
EBay beats estimates and revenue soars
News One of the important things for eBay is how successfully it can move its auction business into new areas, said Steve Fitzgibbons, a financial analyst with J.P. EBay reported Thursday that fourth-quarter revenue increased 81 percent and posted...
[January 19, 2001, 8:23]
eBay chief set to retire
News Meg Whitman, chief executive of auction giant eBay, is planning to retire, according to a report on Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. The report named John Donahoe, president of eBay's auction business unit, as the most likely person to succeed her.
[January 22, 2008, 11:35]
eBay to lay off 10pc of its workforce
News The company also announced plans to acquire online payments business Bill Me Later for $820m (£470m) in cash and approximately $125m in outstanding options, as well as Danish classifieds specialist Den Bla Avis and vehicle site BilBasen for...
[October 7, 2008, 10:11]
Abidia Mobile [Pocket PC Edition]
Downloads For all of your online auction needs, use Abidia Mobile to manage your auctions for you. CONTACT US ABOUT US Abidia Mobile for Pocket PC Auction. Using Abidia Mobile you will never forget about the status of a completed auction again.
[July 7, 2003, 8:00]
Amazon bidders burned
News Amazon.com officials said that Oliver Walker of Archer, Florida, ran online "dutch" auctions for batches of memory chips and graphics cards, allegedly taking payments but failing to deliver the merchandise.
[October 11, 1999, 15:18]
News Burst: QXL revises terms of ricardo.de merger
News QXL.com has reached an agreement to merge with German online auctions firm ricardo.de, after facing down a host of difficulties. If completed, the merger will create one of Europe's largest e-commerce sites and help bolster QXL against imminent...
[August 18, 2000, 10:26]
Top mobile execs to launch handset auction site
News Consumers could soon be offered a greater choice of mobile phone handsets if an online marketplace for mobile phone handsets, due to launch on Wednesday, is successful. A number of top executives in the mobile phone world have teamed up to create...
[November 13, 2001, 13:10]
News Burst: Government pledges £30m to fighting digital divide
News The moves are an attempt to breath new life into the disastrous auction of the broadband fixed-wireless spectrum. The government moves to combat the growing broadband crisis Tuesday, launching a report on the future of high-speed broadband Internet...
[February 13, 2001, 14:01]
auctioning
Talkback I wish everyone was using reverse auction sites (such as http://www.oltiby.com ) in order to lower the prices instead of the oposite. this will deffinately give a boost to one company. I not sure how much it will reflect the spike in prices, but it...
[December 26, 2006, 1:30]
Resellers: Cisco not tackling counterfeit products
News Cisco is not taking enough action to stamp out the sale of counterfeit products on internet auction sites, according to networking-product resellers. Mike Sheldon, chief executive of reseller Network Hardware Resale, told ZDNet.co.uk on Wednesday...
[July 7, 2008, 17:18]
Web traffic: Spam king ousted
News Also, in June, Media Metrix began rating Web sites by category, such as auction, automotive, business or entertainment, and subcategory. Spam king Sanford Wallace has had his ups and downs since going legitimate.
[July 21, 2000, 10:13]
Petrol for sale at Internet auction site
News Britain's worsening petrol crisis resulted in petrol being auctioned to the highest bidder on an Internet auction site Wednesday. Blockades at refineries in the UK -- in protest of international oil prices -- have caused a nation-wide petrol...
[September 13, 2000, 14:27]
EBay survives Grateful Dead suit
News A US court Wednesday dismissed a case that attempted to make auction site eBay legally responsible for the sale of illegal recordings on its site. A fan of rock band The Grateful Dead brought the suit, claiming that illegal recordings made of the...
[November 9, 2000, 16:04]
