Previous
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. One less than entirely serious message posted on the QXL site today reads: "For sale: one gallon of unleaded petrol...
[September 13, 2000, 14:27]
EBay: OS for the highest bidder
News Having captured most of the Internet auction market with its own site, eBay has a new goal: to become an "operating system" for e-commerce on the Web. Subscribers could also choose to display listings, including descriptions, current bids and the...
[November 20, 2000, 12:55]
Patent suit could hurt eBay
News MercExchange founder Thomas Woolston, an inventor and patent attorney who has been granted four online auction-related patents since 1998 and has some 10 others pending, said he sued eBay in 2001 after negotiations broke down over the auction site...
[September 5, 2002, 13:28]
Dell to launch auction site
News The new auction business continues the Round Rock, Texas, company's broad push into Web retailing, begun three years ago with its own Internet site and continuing this year with the launch of its Gigabuys online site for computer and electronics...
[July 19, 1999, 15:30]
Online auction sites face wrath of piracy busters
News A spokeswoman for leading UK Internet auction site QXL.com says auction sites are doing plenty to combat the spread of pirated goods. If we want to put ourselves up as a serious auction site then we don't want to be in the business of saying that...
[October 19, 2000, 11:42]
UK failing to fight Internet fraudsters
News A computer is advertised for £2,000 on an auction site by Mr. Even if complaints from victims manage to get the goods removed from the auction company Web site, Mr. To illustrate this point, the report outlined an example of a successful Internet...
[July 27, 2006, 10:30]
Hacker's auctions stir up controversy
News Released in January after serving nearly five years in prison for hacking-related crimes, Mitnick is selling his prison identification card and autographed "Free Kevin" bumper stickers on start-up auction site Dutchbid.com.
[December 1, 2000, 16:22]
Internet Explorer 8: screenshot gallery review
Reviews These are areas of a site — in this case an auction — on which the user wishes to be kept updated. The Web Slice for the eBay auction sits in the Favorites bar, where its progress can be viewed without the need to visit the eBay site.
[March 19, 2009, 13:15]
Yahoo! defends itself over Nazi auctions
News puts its case to the High Court in Paris following attempts from anti-racist groups to have its American auction site blocked to French users. s auction site is an offence to the collective memory of France because of the large collection of Nazi...
[July 24, 2000, 16:21]
Tech companies: Let's not make a deal
News The online auction site eBay paid $260m for an offline auction business, Butterfield & Butterfield. And the only significant activity recently has been two tiny purchases by Web portal Lycos, which shelled out $71m for Internet-music software maker...
[September 16, 1999, 16:39]
Startup Spotlight: Ybag.com
News The reverse auction model offers the ultimate means of facilitating buyers and sellers in one Web site. Under this "reverse auction" model, Ybag retailers theoretically reply to the buyer's own personal Ybag (an anonymous mailbox system) within a...
[May 26, 2000, 16:13]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News The auction site took a step back in time, offering tips on fashion and beauty from the '80s. In 1999, several spoof pages poked fun at the Web's leading auction site. San Francisco Web site builder Vivid Studios produced vBay, a fake auction site...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Buyers lured to fake FedEx site
News The decreased number of auction fraud complaints comes as the overall number of Internet fraud complaints rose from about 22,009 in 1999 to 25,469 last year. Charlatans on the Net are nothing new, although statistics from the US Federal Trade...
[August 31, 2001, 9:50]
EBay gets tough on online fraudsters
News These efforts come as Internet scams present an ever-pressing problem, with online-auction fraud ranking as the most common type of Internet-related complaints tracked by the Federal Trade Commission.
[June 30, 2003, 8:29]
Identity thieves strike eBay
News Some eBay critics blame the recent rash of scams in part on the auction site for inadvertently displaying the email addresses of its users next to their high bids. People that I talk to are experienced Internet and eBay users and they got fooled...
[November 22, 2002, 14:45]
Condemnation for sale of human eggs on the Web
News Widespread condemnation followed swiftly Monday after the revelation that a US site was preparing to auction human eggs. QXL, the European online auction site condemned the sale. According to Ron Harris a former pornographer who runs the site, men...
[October 26, 1999, 10:39]
Web ties cut by hyperlinking crackdown
News But auction site eBay has succeeded in preventing rival auction sites and aggregators from linking to pages on its site by making legal threats. Say you post a scrappy one-man-band Web site on the pros and cons of pet sweaters.
[July 4, 2002, 9:57]
Timing's right for MS .Net
News These include free services, such as Business Auctions business-to-business auction and its FastCounter Web-site traffic monitor. Simultaneously, Microsoft is working with third-party companies, such as auction giant eBay, to build Web services...
[March 15, 2001, 8:18]
QXL shuts down auction scam on UK site
News He's simply cut and pasted the auction from one site to the other," he told us. The QXL seller, who goes under the member name "home_comforts_uk", accused people on the site who queried why it was identical to the eBay sale of "trying to ruin my...
[June 20, 2003, 11:24]
Hacker Mitnick back online
News Because of the Net restriction, friends handled all details of the auction. In addition, the former hacker has set up another eBay auction, for the Sony Vaio that he used to write his book and that he will use to get online on Tuesday.
[January 22, 2003, 14:50]
