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Jajah, EBay And The Telepathic PR
Blog Jajah, unlike Skype, is not owned (however regretfully) by eBay. Can you guess what happened when eBay auctioneers tried putting Jajah call-me buttons on their auction pages? Well, according to Jajah, each such auction was removed in its entirety...
[October 5, 2007, 13:26]
EBay Vetoes Sale Of ITunes Download
News EBay on Thursday cancelled an auction that sought to resell a music download that was purchased through Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store, saying the attempted sale violated its listing policies. EBay shutting down the auction for violating its...
[September 5, 2003, 12:50]
EBay In The Wars
News In a statement Sunday, the company, which has been plagued with outages since June 9, said My eBay, its personalised service for registered members, was "still disabled due to instability with that [search] function.
[June 14, 1999, 8:47]
EBay Software Fraudsters Pay $100,000
News Two eBay traders have admitted to selling unauthorised copies of Symantec's Norton antivirus software, and have handed over a total of $100,000 (£52,000) to Symantec. Resident in New Jersey, Liu and Tian used various eBay user identities to sell...
[November 24, 2006, 14:55]
EBay Clamps Down On Use Of Its Name
News Auction giant eBay has moved to block Google advertisers from using its trademark in sponsored search results that appear on Google and across the Web. In the past month, eBay sent a letter to Google requesting it to refuse to sell search-related...
[August 11, 2003, 11:55]
EBay Chief Executive Toasts Comdex Crowd
News EBay chief executive Meg Whitman used her Comdex Fall 2001 keynote speech to toast the company's newest category: wine. EBay relaunched the category last week on a trial basis in association with partners New Vine Logistics and Winetasting.com.
[November 15, 2001, 12:19]
EBay Hurdles Estimates In Second Quarter
News First Call consensus pegged eBay for a profit of 3 cents a share in the quarter. In the quarter, eBay added 1.7 million registered users, giving it a total of 5.6 million users at the end of June, a 46 percent jump from the first quarter and a 556...
[July 27, 1999, 7:53]
EBay Goes Down For Three Hours
News A power outage in eBay's Web hosting facility crippled the Web auction service for nearly three hours, the company confirmed. The outage on Wednesday night struck a Qwest Communications facility in California, that hosts many of eBay's Web servers...
[August 22, 2003, 8:59]
EBay Bug Charges Sellers Twice
News Some eBay sellers got an unwelcome surprise over the weekend as the company double charged their bank accounts for their auction fees. Atlanta seller Doug Watson, for instance, received a $30 charge from his bank for overdrawing his account after...
[July 10, 2002, 7:52]
Ebay Pays Up For New Pal
News Auction giant eBay is acquiring online payments company PayPal in a deal valued at $1.5bn, the companies said on Monday. PayPal will continue to offer its service as an independent brand, eBay said. The bulk of its business comes from eBay auctions.
[July 8, 2002, 13:56]
EBay Consolidates E-Mail Servers 71 Percent, Supports Rapid Growth While It Cuts Costs
White Papers As eBay's business grew, so did its messaging infrastructure - to 85 servers in 25 locations around the world. To ensure both scalability and cost-effectiveness, eBay upgraded and consolidated its messaging infrastructure from Microsoft Exchange...
[September 20, 2006, 0:00]
EBay Must Face Facts About Fraud
Talkback Ebay now tell me that his details are no longer valid! And even then they are limited by the information that ebay will disclose to them due the data protection act! I am currently trying to contact an ebayer member who has sold me 2 Robbie...
[September 2, 2006, 14:28]
EBay Must Face Facts About Fraud
Talkback I have also experienced exactly the same thing - I paid £184.25 for 2 tickets on ebay from a user no longer registered on ebay for the milton keynes concert 15th Sept - I have no tickets and have nothing else to go on - I would be very interested...
[September 19, 2006, 12:44]
EBay Acts Over Privacy Fears
Talkback This is great that eBay UK is responding to privacy concerns by it's users. I had a friend who got phished via an eBay scam. As long as there's money to be made from phishing and online scams people need to be aware and companies they use like eBay...
[September 27, 2006, 18:35]
EBay Riled By Romania's Policy On Phishers
News Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in cybercrime enforcement in countries including Romania, warning that not enough is being done to stop fraudsters targeting auction sites.
[March 11, 2008, 7:46]
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. ZDNet UK has learnt that eBay has agreed to make changes to its Web site to make it...
[September 27, 2006, 16:40]
EBay Blows Past 1Q Forecasts, Sets Stock Split
News eBay rolled past Street estimates in its first quarter Tuesday, raking in $8m (£5.07m), or 6 cents a share, on sales of $85.8m. Ahead of the earnings report, eBay shares closed up 11 11/16, or 8 cents a share, to 153 9/16.
[April 26, 2000, 11:25]
EBay Acts Over Privacy Fears
Talkback About time Ebay sorted this out. Can we now see some action taken to prevent other fraud such as account hijackings, Chinese scammers etc?
[September 27, 2006, 18:37]
EBay Warns Of Challenges To Its Business
News Online auction leader eBay warned in an annual report on Friday that it faces difficulty getting former customers to return, adding to the normal challenge of attracting new users to its sites. In its annual shareholder filing with the US...
[March 3, 2008, 8:08]
EBay And MercExchange Settle Patent Feud
News EBay and MercExchange have settled a long-running patent lawsuit, said the online-auction company on Thursday, ending a fight that prompted a landmark US Supreme Court ruling. In the settlement, eBay will buy three patents from MercExchange needed...
[February 29, 2008, 8:32]
