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eBay taps updated Nimbus flash storage

...class family of flash memory systems, which have been picked up by eBay to support its virtualisation software. On Tuesday, Nimbus launched the second generation... Read more

3 August, 2011 by Jack Clark

HP kicks out Apotheker, brings in Whitman

...strategy and take advantage of the market opportunities ahead." Lane described former eBay chief executive Whitman as "a technology visionary with a proven track record... Read more

23 September, 2011 by David Meyer

eBay bolsters PayPal with Zong buy

...eBay announced on Thursday it has agreed to acquire mobile-payments provider Zong... Read more

8 July, 2011 by Steven Musil

Paypal sues Google over mobile payment trade secrets

...technology. Photo credit: Sarah Tew/CNET News The payments company and parent eBay filed the suit (PDF) in Santa Clara superior court on Thursday, only... Read more

27 May, 2011 by Tom Espiner

eBay buys geolocation specialist Where

...Auction site eBay has acquired Where, a company that makes location-based mobile applications and... Read more

21 April, 2011 by Caroline McCarthy

eBay to buy GSI Commerce for fulfilment services

...eBay has announced it will acquire GSI Commerce, which provides e-commerce fulfilment... Read more

29 March, 2011 by John Hazard
Ten tech buys that didn't work out

Ten tech buys that didn't work out

...Commerce giant eBay acquired Skype and its VoIP service in late 2005, then decided to... Read more

20 December, 2010 by Caroline McCarthy and Josh Lowensohn

PayPal cuts off Wikileaks account

...PayPal, the online payment service owned by eBay, has effectively shut down the account used in fundraising efforts by Wikileaks... Read more

5 December, 2010 by Edward Moyer

Yahoo and eBay plead with Vaizey for UK net neutrality

...Organisations ranging from eBay, Skype and Yahoo to the Open Rights Group, Consumer Focus and Which... Read more

3 December, 2010 by David Meyer

eBay hit with $3.8bn patent lawsuit

...XPRT Ventures has served eBay with a $3.8bn lawsuit, alleging its transaction system PayPal knowingly incorporated... Read more

14 July, 2010 by Caroline McCarthy
Raspberry Pi enters production, but not in UK

Raspberry Pi enters production, but not in UK

The groundbreaking UK £22-and-under bare-board Linux computer is finally being made in quantity, but economics have forced production to go abroad, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has said Read more

11 January, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Report: HP board makes no decision on Apotheker

...is nearing a decision to remove Apotheker as boss and hire former eBay CEO Meg Whitman in his place. Whitman joined the company's board... Read more

22 September, 2011 by Michelle Meyers

PayPal demos mobile NFC payments

...technology to allow a device to transfer payment directly to another. The eBay-owned company demonstrated its new NFC-enabled widget for Google Android smartphones... Read more

14 July, 2011 by Andrew Nusca

HMRC enlists internet bots in tax evasion battle

...will use the software to look on services such as Google and eBay to identify traders, cross-referencing it against its own systems. "For example... Read more

14 June, 2011 by Staff

Google, Facebook to protest French data-retention law

...Google and Facebook, over 20 web companies with operations in France, including eBay and Dailymotion, will be involved in the State Council case, according to... Read more

8 April, 2011 by Jason Ng

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If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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yeah! all we want free software

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Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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