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1. Yahoo to get new look

   (Software/Software Features)

   Monday, 20 July 2009

   ... big idea is to let customers select and design a more personalized version of the home page from this afternoon. It will allow people to access eBay, Facebook, and Twitter from a single home page. According ...

2. Google, Bing Wars - don't do as I do, do as I say

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   ... Answers.com, Chambers, Creative Commons, eBay and Wikipedia. And there's a screen showing numerous addons, including - wonder of wonders - Bing. Firefox also managed to copy the home page tab set from ...

3. Brits obsessed with social networking

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 13 May 2009

   ... 3.8 billion more minutes in April 2009 than April 2008. The 10 most heavily-used web brands were Facebook, MSN/Windows Live, Google, eBay, Yahoo!, AOL Media Network, the BBC, YouTube, Microsoft - mainly ...

4. UPDATED: Conficker.e surfaces and reveals purpose: Wants $49.95

   (Security/Security Features)

   Friday, 10 April 2009

   ... an HTTP server by broadcasting SSDP requests.It also connects with myspace.com, msn.com, ebay.com, cnn.com and aol.com. And after running, it deletes all records of itself, including all files, registries, ...

5. Review: IE8 is no speed demon, but is most secure browser available

   (Software/Software Features)

   Thursday, 19 March 2009

   ... a map of a copied address in an overlay window. Or, you can define a copied term using an online dictionary, grab Wikipedia content, check for an item on eBay, Amazon, etc. IE8 comes preloaded with ...

6. Fake iTunes cards challenge Apple's iTunes business

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Wednesday, 11 March 2009

   ... don't know if they do the same thing in eBay," he said. "Most of our customers use iTunes Store for music, then applications and films. iPod games are least popular." If true, this also speaks volumes ...

7. Hacker gets 4 years for botnet malware used to steal identities

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

   Thursday, 05 March 2009

   ... man got two years in prison for selling fake items on eBay. He collected $94,000, but refused to provide the purchased materials.See the original AP article republished on Yahoo Tech.  ...

8. Glassdoor.com’s best and worst CEOs of 2008

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Monday, 29 December 2008

   ... Computer Services, Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems, and John Donahoe of eBay. Donahoe had a disapproval rating of 49% (approval: 20%). Interestingly, AMD is missing from this list, despite the fact ...

9. Google preparing for tougher times

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Thursday, 04 December 2008

   ... service hours and suspended the traditional afternoon tea in the New York office. Google’s efforts could potentially be paying off already. In October, when other companies such as Yahoo and Ebay were ...

10. Black Friday shopping results not entirely negative

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 01 December 2008

    ... showing up at Wal-Mart (+106%), Target (+136%), Best Buy (+196%) and Circuit City (+352%). Ebay remained the largest destination with 9.9 million unique visitors, followed by Amazon.com (8.5 million) and ...

11. Stockwatch: Chip makers hit hard by pessimistic 2009 forecast

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 19 November 2008

    ...  Motorola -79% 7.8 Yahoo -70% 12.7 RIM -69% 25.6 Ebay -67% 14.9  ...

12. Oracle remains best performing tech stock in declining economy

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 12 November 2008

    ... the hardest were Seagate, which moved from position 8 to 4 (-83%); Google, which moved from 14 to 13 (-60%) and Ebay, which moved from 12 to 11 (-65%). Here is the current chart. Company ...

13. Silicon Valley’s cash voted: Obama received lion’s share of donations

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 04 November 2008

    ... and former HP and eBay CEOs Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman who both spoke at the GOP convention. Fiorina was also among McCain’s financial advisors. Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently publicly endorsed Obama, ...

14. Microsoft market cap drops below $200 billion

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 22 October 2008

    ... losers so far this month. On the winning side are Motorola, Ebay, Apple, Cisco, Google, Novell and Oracle, all of which were able to either keep their stock values stable or even showed a slight increase ...

15. YouTube surpasses Yahoo as world’s #2 search engine

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 16 October 2008

    ... dropped by 5% from July 2008 to 2.4 billion. The entire search traffic of Microsoft sites is estimated by ComScore at 1.0 billion searches. Other sites to rank on the expanded search list include Ebay ...

16. Ebay posts $492 million profit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 15 October 2008

    EBay posted a third-quarter profit that beat analyst forecasts Wednesday, but its lower-than-expected fourth-quarter forecast indicated the online auction site operator is not immune from the slowing ...

17. Tech mergers ahead?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 09 October 2008

    ...  -76% 0.5 AMD -72% 2.5 Seagate -67% 4.6 Sandisk -67% 3.8 Ebay -65% 20.8 ...

18. Financial crisis slams Silicon Valley

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... Sun Microsystems: -76% 3. AMD: -68% 4. Ebay: -59% 5. Yahoo: -57% 6. Apple: -56% 7. Dell: -56% 8. Google: -54% 9. Cisco: -45% 10. Intel: -42% 11. Adobe: -40% 12. Microsoft: -31% 13. Oracle: -28% 14. IBM: ...

19. PayPal won't block Safari, but browser still considered unsafe

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 21 April 2008

    ... theft. Over last couple of days, multiple online sources claimed Ebay's PayPal is planning to block Safari users from accessing the online payment service altogether. For example, AppleInsider cited ...

20. Ebay, Yahoo join forces

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 04 December 2007

    Ebay and Yahoo have teamed up to offer cross-site Internet auctions, in part to help Ebay compete with the dominance of Yahoo in Japan. Tokyo (Japan) - Ebay and Yahoo have teamed up to offer cross-site ...

21. Ebay loses $936 million on Skype charges

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 17 October 2007

    EBay reported Wednesday a third-quarter net loss of more than $936 million - a rare plunge into the red for the e-commerce juggernaut caused by charges to its Skype telecommunications division. But San ...

22. Google powers more than half of all global searches

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 12 October 2007

    ... billion search requests in August.  The data was released this week. The big difference about this study is that searches inside Ebay, Amazon, and Myspace are included.  In previous reports, ...

23. Yahoo, Ebay, Paypal form phishing-fighting pact

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 04 October 2007

    ... users to a bogus link to a website login page that looks official, for example a fake clone of Ebay.  After the user enters login credentials, they are sent to the phisher.  Ebay users are attractive ...

24. Yahoo tops Internet ranking for August

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Tuesday, 18 September 2007

    ... at 80 million. The top 10 were rounded out by Ebay (79.5m), Amazon (54m), Ask.com (52m), Wikipedia (48m), and Viacom (45m).  These rankings are the same as they were last month.  The site that ...

25. eBay hits web, tv and movies in new fall ad campaign

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 September 2007

    eBay will be spending millions on new ads targeting web, television and movie viewers this fall. San Jose (CA) – eBay will be spending millions on new ads targeting web, television and movie viewers ...

26. Skype outage: An unprecedented wake-up call

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Friday, 17 August 2007

    ... contacts, but it still would've worked. It really makes one wonder just how fragile the system is and what Ebay is doing to keep it up and running.  Due to the length of this outage I'm beginning ...

27. Ebay profits jumps 50%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 July 2007

    EBay on Wednesday posted a 50% rise in net profit on strength in its core auction and payments businesses, but left its 2007 outlook unchanged, defying Wall Street's hopes for a boost. Revenue as well ...

28. First look: Apple reinvents the cellphone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Saturday, 30 June 2007

    ... would be enough supply and what type of user really would buy the phone. Yes, there was the Ebay crowd once again, but compared to the PS3 and Wii launch, where we found that eight out of ten buyers planned ...

29. Online advertising reaches record high in 2006

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 24 May 2007

    Internet advertising climbed to being just shy of $17 billion last year, and the industry shows no sign of slowing down. San Francisco (CA) - Internet advertising climbed to being just shy of $17 billion ...

30. Yahoo auction site is going, going, gone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 10 May 2007

    ... in fresh memory, Yahoo has announced it will shut down its online auction service in the U.S. next month. When Yahoo Auctions launched in 1998, eBay already had a three year head start and never suffered ...

31. Comparing Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 execution: Focus makes the difference

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 21 November 2006

    ... out of the Ebay nose bleed pricing phase. Rob Enderle is principal analyst for the Enderle Group. He can be reached at renderle@enderlegroup.com. Related articles: Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S. ...

32. PayPal headquarters bombed

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 01 November 2006

    ... mainly dealing in online auctions. eBay, the online auction company, purchased PayPal back in 2002.  ...

33. 9/11 and the Internet: Limits and opportunities

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 10 September 2006

    ... Take, for example, the series of Denial of Service attacks against Ebay, Buy.com, CNN, Amazon.com, ZDNet, Etrade and Excite in February of 2000, the rampage of the infamous "I Love You" virus in May of ...

34. Google, Ebay deal will create 'click-to-call' links in search lists, IM

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 28 August 2006

    In a deal announced this morning, Google and Ebay will, beginning early next year, jointly produce "click-to-call" functionality, with an integration plan that should include Google Search, Google's integrated ...

35. New Yahoo Messenger supports plug-ins and more contacts

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 21 June 2006

    ... useless are already available. Users can install plug-ins for calendar sharing and viewing where friends live. Shoppers and online auction addicts can also install plug-ins for Amazon.com and Ebay.com ...

36. AOL to open up instant messaging to developers for free

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 06 March 2006

    ... heading the same direction in the past few years, as Yahoo and MSN agreed to pool their user bases, and eBay infused new life and working capital into Skype. Suddenly, the market leader was finding itself ...

37. AOL's 'AIM Pro' promises VoIP, rich media for business-class service

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 21 February 2006

    ... (now a unit of eBay) and Yahoo expanding their reach to the consumer market with voice-over-IP (VoIP) and now video as well, and with Microsoft set to make its push for point-of-presence tools by integrating ...

38. Skype names Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft as threat

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 17 October 2005

      Skype, the company which made VoIP usable and cool and the latest acquisition of the internet giant eBay, has said that they see potential threat in their primary market coming from the biggies ...

39. Yahoo hosting thousands of phishing sites?

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 September 2005

      Yahoo! is hosting thousands of fraudulent websites that have domain names containing the words "bank", "PayPal" or "eBay", according to a leading anti-spam group Spamhaus. Yahoo! is hosting thousands ...

40. Online music service from the BBC appearing more likely

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Monday, 29 August 2005

    ... we know about the online world suggests that it's the big brands - the eBays, the Amazons, the Microsofts - that punch through and the BBC is one of the big brands," Mr Thompson said. Read the complete ...

41. EBay to increase fees

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 14 January 2005

      Some small business owners who reach most of their customers via eBay Inc. Some small business owners who reach most of their customers via eBay Inc. expressed anger Thursday at the online auction ...

42. Eight EBay sellers admit to phony bids

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 08 November 2004

      Eight eBay sellers were ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in restitution and fines after admitting they bid up products online to inflate the prices. Eight eBay sellers were ordered to pay nearly ...

43. Billing glitches anger EBay sellers

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 02 November 2004

      Nancy Spaulding, from North Ridgeville, Ohio, noticed something strange in her monthly invoice from EBay-listing fees and other items appeared to be double-billed and then credited back. Nancy ...

44. Yahoo to close online payment service

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Saturday, 23 October 2004

      Yahoo in November will close PayDirect, its online payments service that aimed to compete with eBay's PayPal, the company said Friday. Yahoo in November will close PayDirect, its online payments ...

45. EBay users fight ongoing billing hassles

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 25 June 2004

      Fran Weidman has been meticulous about her EBay account while auctioning vintage dolls for the past seven years. Fran Weidman has been meticulous about her EBay account while auctioning vintage ...

46. Ebay profit nearly doubles

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 21 April 2004

      Ebay on Wednesday posted a first-quarter profit that nearly doubled as revenue from its online marketplace and its PayPal unit both grew strongly, while a weak dollar boosted income from abroad. ...

47. The "Dot-coms" Shall Rise Again, More Sensibly this Time

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 13 February 2003

    ... reported their first profitable quarters, including Ask Jeeves, Inc., LookSmart Ltd. and MarketWatch.com Inc. Other publicly traded Internet companies that have remained profitable include eBay Inc., Yahoo! ...

48. Sega sinks Dreamcast pirates

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Saturday, 22 July 2000

    ... has shut down at least 60 websites and 125 auction sites where pirated versions of its Dreamcast games were being sold. Sega also says it gained the cooperation of Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, eBay, and Amazon ...

49. Teen charged in hack attacks

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 19 April 2000

    ... News said the suspect, known online as Mafiaboy, was arrested over the weekend in the Montreal area. The attacks shut down such popular Web sites as Yahoo!, Amazon and eBay for hours, causing millions ...

50. FBI hunts cyber saboteurs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 10 February 2000

      U.S. U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno announced that the federal government has launched an all-out criminal investigation to stop the sabotage that felled web sites from Ebay to Yahoo. ZDNet, ...