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eBay must face facts about fraud
Talkback Why do journalists never challenge ebay's 0.01% fraud claim? Every interview you ever see written, perpetuates ebay's infamous "0.01% fraud" claim. It's been stuck at 0.01% since 1999, yet there are more users on ebay today than 6 years ago.
[May 20, 2005, 19:53]
eBay Auction Sniper & Auto Search
Downloads The most popular ebay tool is now available for Mac OSX. Win eBay auctions with this advanced Auction Sniper eBay tool that bids for you in the final seconds of an auction. Simplifies eBay by allowing you to browse auctions with a built in Web...
[August 6, 2004, 8:00]
eBay buys hundreds of Galaxy servers
News Sun has sold hundreds of its new Galaxy line of x86 servers to eBay to power the auction site's search technology.eBay is using the X4200 and X4100 machines, which use AMD's Opteron processor, as well as Sun StorEdge storage systems, the server...
[November 29, 2005, 9:00]
EBay and Tumbleweed settle
News Capping a year of patent acrimony, eBay put one legal struggle behind it by settling with plaintiff Tumbleweed Communications. Tumbleweed, an enterprise email, file-transfer and firewall services provider, sued eBay subsidiary PayPal last year...
[December 30, 2003, 9:50]
EBay to acquire Half.com in stock deal
News eBay said late Tuesday that it will acquire Half.com in a stock deal signaling the online auctioneer's first foray into a fixed-price business model.eBay said it will issue between 4.6 million and 5.5 million shares for all outstanding shares of...
[June 14, 2000, 9:37]
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 announces new Skype chief
News eBay announced on Monday that it had appointed new chief executives to its Skype and Shopping.com properties. Taking Silverman's place at Shopping.com will be Andre Haddad, who joined eBay in 2001 when it acquired his start-up, the European...
[February 26, 2008, 10:21]
eBay sells Skype for $2bn
News E-commerce giant eBay announced on Tuesday that it is selling its Skype unit for $2bn (£1.2bn) to an investor group that includes Marc Andreessen's new venture. Under the deal, eBay will receive approximately $1.9bn in cash and a note from the...
[September 1, 2009, 15:50]
ebaY Canada Search Gadget
Downloads Besides looking great, ebaY Canada Search Gadget allows you to search ebaY Canada directly and easily from within Windows Vista sidebar. It's been optimized with the end user and speed in mind for the world's most popular auction site.
[May 6, 2008, 13:29]
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: Can it keep customers loyal?
News eBay doesn't call it advertising, but the online auction giant is steadily building up a group of marketing partnerships to provide services for its massive customer base. That's why eBay executives are closely studying community reaction to the...
[March 14, 2000, 13:34]
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 must face facts about fraud
Talkback i lost £2500 on ebay through a hijacked account, so even though i checked feedback everything ! These days ebay is full of blatant scammers and i dont think they care frankly. it was a scam! its too easy to takeover accounts !
[May 5, 2005, 17:50]
EBay scammer jailed
News A US teenager has been fined and sentenced to time in jail after committing fraud via online auction site eBay. The young man was also found guilty of bank fraud after trying to convince a member of one bank's staff to cash the cheques he received...
[June 16, 2004, 11:45]
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, Yahoo among most trusted for privacy
News eBay is the most trusted company in terms of privacy, and Yahoo and Facebook are among the Top 10, according to a new report released on Wednesday. Following eBay is Verizon, the US Postal Service, WebMD, IBM, Procter & Gamble, Nationwide and...
[September 17, 2009, 16:25]
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 execs defend IPO share grab
News Ebay chief executive Meg Whitman in an internal email to employees defended herself and other eBay executives amid an IPO share controversy, saying their actions were "legal" and "quite common". Whitman sent the email to eBay employees earlier this...
[October 24, 2002, 9:58]
eBay battles consumer rights magazine
News eBay has hit back at claims from consumer magazine Computing Which? The magazine has said eBay shows too little interest in identifying fraudsters among its user-base and supported that claim with figures from the Metropolitan Police.
[February 28, 2006, 9:25]
eBay Express coming to the UK
News eBay UK has announced it is to take on all e-commerce comers with a new site, eBay Express, which will go live in the autumn. The site, a US version of which launched in April, will allow professional eBay sellers to offer only new items at a fixed...
[July 5, 2006, 13:15]
