News tagged with online auction
EBay completes sale of Skype for $2 billion
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- EBay has completed its sale of Skype for about $2 billion to an investor group that included the founders of the Internet phone service.
PayPal opening doors to outside developers
Oct 21, 2009 |
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PayPal plans to throw open the doors of its software platform to enable outside developers to build innovative tools using the online financial transaction service.
eBay has unexpected, chilling effect on looting of antiquities, archaeologist finds
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May 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ...
eBay to take controlling stake in SKorea site for 1.2 bln dlrs
Apr 16, 2009 |
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US online auction giant eBay will take a controlling stake in South Korea's biggest online marketplace Gmarket in a deal worth up to 1.2 billion dollars, the two companies announced on Thursday.
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EBay cuts auction listing fees for casual sellers
May 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The online marketplace eBay is eliminating some upfront fees to attract more sellers who occasionally auction off items.
NTT, Rakuten to start online auction co.
Oct 12, 2005 |
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NTT DoCoMo and Rakuten announced late Tuesday they would be starting up an Internet auction house jointly.
Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf
Nov 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
eBay to close Vancouver facility
May 06, 2009 |
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Online auction giant eBay announced plans to close a customer service facility in Vancouver which employs some 700 people.
Skype founders looking to buy back company
Apr 11, 2009 |
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The two founders of Skype are seeking to buy back the hugely popular Internet telephone service that they sold to online auction giant eBay in 2005, according to US media reports.
Xbox Live boots pirate videogame players; will link to Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Microsoft said Thursday that its Xbox 360 videogame console will be able to link online starting next week with Twitter and Facebook along with Internet radio star Last.fm.
EBay wins court fight against L'Oreal in UK
May 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A British court on Friday ruled that Internet marketplace eBay is not liable for bogus beauty products sold on its Web site, dealing a blow to cosmetics company L'Oreal's campaign against the online auction giant.
UF to auction naming rights for new butterfly species online
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Oct 16, 2007 |
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In an apparent first for butterflies, the Florida Museum of Natural History will auction the naming rights for a newly discovered species online to raise money for butterfly research.
Rice U study finds that consumers may fare better with peer-to-peer online lending Web sites
Jun 19, 2008 |
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A new study conducted by Associate Professor of Management Paul Dholakia at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management shows that online peer-to-peer lending Web sites may be more attractive to Americans ...
General Motors to try selling new cars on eBay
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- As part of its turnaround plan, General Motors Corp. said Friday it plans to experiment with auctioning new cars on eBay, expanding on an existing partnership covering certified used vehicles on the online marketplace.
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