Longs Historically Catch the Better Post-Earnings Trade off eBay's After-Hours Financial Reports

Key Street Calls: Apple, Priceline, eBay, Bidz, Blue NileSilicon Alley Insider, NY –5 hours agoeBay (EBAY): Two more firms–JP Morgan and Credit Suisse–note stronger than expected listings growth for Ebay. q/q growth was 14% compared to a 9% … More: continued here

Express.co.uk Antiques dealer used eBay to sell crocodile and monkey skulls onlineExpress.co.uk… which ensures trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. An investigation was launched by the National Wildlife Crime Unit into McCabe's online auction site when he advertised a monkey skull on eBay as legal to own.and more »…

Cloud services companies like Facebook and eBay have a vested interest in making their data centers as energy-efficient and water-efficient as possible, not just because it makes for a good public relations message but because they can't scale operationally without these metrics in place. More: continued here

BBC News Taxman on trail of online tradersBBC NewsHMRC said one of its new campaigns would try to identify regular sellers on eBay, Auto Trader, E-auctions, Amazon, Craigslist and Gumtree. Occasional sellers of personal items do not need to pay tax. But people earning a living as self-employed traders …HMRC to target VAT defaulters on…

EBay posts a strong increase to its bottom line for the first quarter thanks to growth in its ticketing, payments and telecommunications units, while the company’s core auction business continues to show signs of weakness. More: continued here

eBay confirmed it was testing a redesign of its View Item page that would remove the “Shipping and Payments” tab from the page. The tab is fairly new – eBay began testing it in 2008 as part of its View Item redesign testing. More: continued here