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With all the environmental challenges we’re currently facing, such as the melting of the polar icecap or the continuous degradation of air quality, giant enterprises also feel they must do something more ambitious than just train their employees to sort the garbage they throw out. eBay has decided to launch a s... |
3 September 2008
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An Australian woman decided to put up for auction a letter written by her ex-husband, in which he basically let her know that the two of them shared the same tastes in men. And where would she find a better auction house than on eBay? The two and their two children had been a family for over 20 years when the husband... |
1 September 2008
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An IT manager who bought a second-hand computer from eBay discovered that the hard disk of the machine contained the bank information of 1 million persons. The computer, which was sold for £35 (approximately $75), had previously belonged to Graphic Data, a company that stores information of clients of banks and... |
27 August 2008
20:40 GMT |
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Back in 2004, lawyers for Tiffany filed a lawsuit against eBay, claiming that the Internet marketplace knowingly permitted the sale of counterfeited products claiming to be Tiffany originals. One month ago, we reported that eBay had won the case against the jewelry giant. However, people expected that Tiffany would f... |
12 August 2008
07:16 GMT |
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A recent comScore study showed that the popularity that Yahoo! is enjoying in the UK is growing smaller with each month. The websites of the search engine were used by merely 4.3% of the Britons in June. The stats from May showed that Yahoo!'s share of the search market had risen to 4.7% of the audience. Neverth... |
6 August 2008
12:22 GMT |
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Britons continue to be most interested in portals, search engines and conversational media when they are navigating the web. Although the largest part of the population prefers these three types of online applications, the number of people using them has been rather stagnant over the last months. In June, as a comSco... |
29 July 2008
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With all the hype surrounding the new iPhone 3G, as well as the continuous shortages worldwide, eBay has again become the last resort for true fans of the device. Sadly, though, units on eBay go for as much as $1,000 a piece. More affordable offers range from $800 to $900."Bidding on one auction for a seller's 1... |
24 July 2008
05:38 GMT |
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eBay's year-over-year report shows that the company is becoming more and more prosperous. The total revenues for the second semester of 2008 surpassed the ones from 2007 by $361 million, reaching $2.2 billion. The e-commerce activities still account for most of the business share, but some domains that could sti... |
17 July 2008
08:22 GMT |
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Counterfeit products available on eBay and other purchasing sites cannot be totally shut out, unless the companies that fabricate the originals keep a keen eye on what is going on on these properties. This statement was underscored by the judge who exonerated eBay of any guilt in the process vs. jewelry giant Tiffany... |
15 July 2008
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Out of the 3.7 billion searches conducted in Germany in May 2008, an average of 80.5% was performed with Google sites. Google's supremacy puts to shame the rest of the top ten sites. eBay is second, with 6.2% of the market share, followed by a German property, ProSiebenSat1, whose sites account for 2.4% of the p... |
9 July 2008
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Britons are heavy Internet users. As a study conducted by Nielsen Online shows, between June 2007 and May 2008, the average number of minutes spent monthly by the U.K citizens on the Internet surpassed 33 million. The leader, with 2,626 minutes and 7.8% of the market share, is MSN Messenger. The first runner up, gett... |
7 July 2008
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If you thought you needed to wait until July 11 to buy the new iPhone from Apple, we're informing you that iPhone 3G is already up for sale on eBay. 203 items are currently found under "iphone 3G in Cell Phones & Smartphones," while offers range from 100 to 1,000 bucks a piece.Just so we're clear on one asp... |
12 June 2008
11:03 GMT |
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For a very long time, a large number of high-profile cosmetics, accessories and perfumery manufacturers have been at war with auction giant eBay over the very delicate issue of counterfeit goods and the latter's responsibility in helping sell such products via its website. One of the most prominent defenders of ... |
5 June 2008
12:54 GMT |
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If you are a frequent user of eBay, then you are probably expecting to find all sorts of products available through online auction. With all that, a German couple from Memmingen decided to take online auctions on eBay to a whole new level. So, last week, they posted an advertisement to sell their son, claiming he had... |
26 May 2008
06:21 GMT |
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According to a recent post on the CheckMEND blog, approximately £5 billion worth of stolen goods are available for purchase at online stores at any moment in the UK. Moreover, it appears that two items are being reported stolen every minute. These numbers were released by a company that specializes in identifying sto... |
26 May 2008
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It has been revealed that Apple is again going after iClone makers, this time taking some serious legal action against the manufacturer. Apple Europe's legal counsel, Bird & Bird has contacted the maker of a device called the HiPhone, which replicates Apple's handset to the highest level possible (going as ... |
12 May 2008
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Some of the employees at one of the largest online transactions companies will work in a new and improved building. According to the PayPal Blog, Scott Thompson, the PayPal president, along with with John Donahoe, eBay CEO and Chuck Reed, Mayor of San Jose, have inaugurated the new PayPal building, last week on 8th o... |
12 May 2008
04:16 GMT |
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Tired of Psystar news? OK then, why don't we talk about this fellow who is selling "non Apple Mac OS X" systems that come "pre-loaded with genuine Mac OS X 10.5" on eBay. OK, so it's Mac Clones Strike Again... again, but hey, at least the name of the "provider" name is not Psystar."A seller by the name of &... |
8 May 2008
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Google is regarded as the best company to work for because it offers all kinds of amazing things to its employee, starting with cafeterias and bars and ending with swimming pools and fast-foods. Because of that, most users on the Internet and somehow interested in Google always dream about a trip at the Googleplex, s... |
17 April 2008
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After seeing out how several warnings sent to a number of countries that have been the most productive in phishing attacks hit a brick wall, eBay burst and warned that there must be something more that can be done to stop fraudsters from targeting auction sites. Alongside Romania, which was nominated as having the bi... |
11 March 2008
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," William Congreve wrote in 1697 in the play "The Mourning Bride." Many people wrongly attribute this quote to Shakespeare, but it could have been said by anybody who failed to meet a woman's expectations, any man can testify t... |
3 March 2008
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The world's biggest online auction site has been asked by The Software & Information Industry Association to do something about the disturbing percentage of software being sold using the site's services. When I wrote alarming I wasn't kidding, the numbers provided by the SIIA point to something around ... |
29 February 2008
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Skype is the most popular Voice over IP client and service in the world. Earlier this month, it hit the 100 billion minutes spent talking margin and it is still increasing its user database. The 2.6 billion dollars spent by eBay, when it first acquired Skype, seem to have been well spent when looking at the huge numb... |
26 February 2008
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Skype launched as a small but promising company and, four and a half years later, it is happy to report that its users have talked 100 billion minutes (probably more by now). Not so long ago, the huge pull that the phone and VoIP company has, drew attention towards it and after an interesting chain of events, eBay bo... |
21 February 2008
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How an online auction site could get implicated in the fight against piracy is a pretty delicate thing, reputation wise, except for the eventuality of it using the software in question. However, the Software & Information Industry Association brought the idea home after suing several eBay auctioneers. The largest act... |
18 February 2008
16:56 GMT |
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Auction sites are a breeding ground for every possible scammer there is. The procedure is fairly simple: you find somebody who has something you want, you win the auction and then ask for the product to be sent to your place (at this point it would be great to have a 'rented' PO box at a post office) and ne... |
13 February 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Sometimes background and periodical psychological checks of employees are in order. I know nobody's going to do it because I said so, but some have already suffered because they skipped that part and went straight to the hiring. Such is the case of Daniel Lorello, a 54-year-old New York state employee, who had a... |
29 January 2008
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There are only three CEOs right now in Silicon Valley that have very high profiles because of the pioneering work that they have done with commercializing the Internet industry: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Yahoo! Inc.'s Jerry Yang and, last but not least, eBay's Meg Whitman. Their ranks will unfortunately... |
22 January 2008
17:06 GMT |
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Although I would have thought it interesting to see it come down to a honest-to-God fight or brawl, so that you don't understand me wrong, between the employees of the two companies (who don't wander how guys that have nigh to no physical activities all day fight?) and despite the fact that it was well orga... |
17 December 2007
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Imagine this: You're the father of a 15 year old and Christmas is coming. Your kid wants, since it was launched, Guitar Hero 3. You want to make your son happy. So you go shopping, you don't find it, you keep searching and you lose precious hours. But you finally buy it and start heading home, tired but hap... |
7 December 2007
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"This is either a major deal or a connery" you might be thinking right now. Who would do such a thing when it's almost Christmas time? It's probably one of those eBayers who likes to take advantage of the Wii shortage and promises all of us a free Wii... with a catch. He offers 20 envelopes for auction on ... |
6 December 2007
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No need to worry, boys and girls! If you have trouble finding a Wii console in time for this Christmas, Santa Claus himself will come straight to your home and deliver it! Of course, being a good child all year long is no longer enough for Santa, because now he wants about 10,000 US dollars for such a gift, with a st... |
5 December 2007
03:58 GMT |
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What might have been considered a strategic withdrawal off the market back in 2002, actually turned out to be a KO that sent eBay to the ground in round 1. Yahoo! and the world knew that it wouldn't be a lucky punch, but didn't shy away from going into the ring with the inexperienced, on the Japanese market... |
4 December 2007
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One of the worst nightmares: buy a very expensive car through eBay and receive nothing. Not even your money. And this happened to approximately 1,000 Canadians in the last 7 years according to the CBC news. But, here's what happened a few days days ago. Shaqir Duraj, a Kosovo refugee who moved to Canada, has sta... |
4 December 2007
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A group of eBay members started a real virtual rebellion a few days ago when they decided it was time to fight against the hacked MP3 players sold through the famous bidding website. All their actions brought an online petition signed at the time of writing this article by 1733 persons who requested eBay to stop the ... |
26 November 2007
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Since the Nintendo Wii seems to be surpassed by the PS3 in the sales department, it should become cheaper in order to stimulate demand... or maybe not, since there's a major shortage of such gaming devices, specially in the UK. The console seems to have become as rare as a pink diamond, since one eBayer decided... |
23 November 2007
06:49 GMT |
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Skype proved to be too expensive an acquisition for Ebay and they are considering selling it to the highest bidder. And who could outbid Google, especially with the new Android platform out there, ready to incorporate Skype and become perfect, no…actually, the perfect platform to deliver services? Of course, being a ... |
20 November 2007
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This is something new and as far as I can see, it is pretty dangerous for all of us. It seems like two websites were infected with some sort of infections which can cause pretty serious damage, if combined. The malicious code's first goal is stealing users' eBay login credentials but there's no statist... |
19 November 2007
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Why would you want to do that? I guess every user who visits eBay looking for a car wants all the information he requests in order to be sure the Jeep he buys is a not a fake. But a recently discovered scam provides all kinds of information, including images and other type of content, but it actually aims to steal us... |
15 November 2007
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Mark Hartman is one of the eBay registered members who like to buy things online, no matter if the merchant is living in a different corner of the world. Sure, it's a risk to buy something from a person who lives on the other half of the planet but eBay is pretty famous and popular for this kind of transactions.... |
9 November 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Many would do anything for a good job, from obsessively improving their CVs with fake abilities and degrees up to being on the employer's doorstep every morning two hours before the intended interview time.One German techie decided he was going to do neither or anything of the sort. He decided to attract Google&... |
5 November 2007
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This is something great - these giants have joined forces to put an end to e-mail frauds and phishing scams. It's bound to have great results - Yahoo! Mail is going to protect consumers by blocking fraudulent eBay and PayPal e-mail and with their e-mail client being the most popular ever, this is going to thwart... |
9 October 2007
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eBay is just like the Pentagon, every week there is news of some hackers targeting them and doing something pretty bad. Several days ago, a data leak on eBay's forum made the news - some hacker posted sensitive data belonging to a lot of users on it (the forum). Also, eBay has acknowledged more than once that th... |
9 October 2007
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It seems that people can sell anything on eBaby, including themselves, but not only as human beings, but also as "lifelong gamer friends" or a trustworthy Halo 3 co-ops. The auction was started by nismofrontier07 and the gamer promises that he's all sugar and honey, being a "great friend to chat with and play w... |
5 October 2007
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One of the best ideas to make money from the Internet is to conduct an Auctions Site. With an auctions site you can help people sell different stuff for a small fee. If you want your auction website to work without problems, you will need a powerful script. The ideal software solution so you can run your own auction ... |
4 October 2007
11:46 GMT |
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Yahoo Messenger is surely a handy tool when it comes to online communication but the application tends to become the perfect utility for many other goals. Sarah Bacon, Product Manager at Yahoo, revealed another purpose of Yahoo Messenger which can be used as the main eBay bidding tool. Because I'm sure you'... |
3 October 2007
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It's good to see that someone is finally using Master Chief's popularity for people other than themselves. The figurine you see to the left (click to enlarge) has been confirmed by Kotaku to be the work of artist David Johnson. The man has put it up for auction on eBay and dubbed it the 'Mz Master Chie... |
1 October 2007
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Some things you just can't prevent. eBay is striving as hard as they can to make it safe for their customers, as they offer a lot of protection methods and they increase security on their site, but it seems that no matter what they do, from time to time we still get eBay related crime news. eBay users' sens... |
26 September 2007
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Many of the large companies from all around the world prefer to restrict the access of their employees to numerous websites in order to avoid affecting the productivity and to keep them focused on their job. However, three employees from the Neath Port Talbot council in Wales were sacked after they spent too much tim... |
24 September 2007
06:27 GMT |
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The Beckhams like to shock. We all know that and we also happen to have realized ever since they relocated to the States that they have brought the art of not doing much and still being extremely famous to perfection. It's true, however, that the male half of the couple hasn't had the best of luck with his ... |
20 September 2007
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