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Jennifer Heist won a lawsuit against Laurel Burch Artwork by default after the licensing company had allegedly used eBay’s VeRO trademark complaint process to remove her listings from the auction site. AuctionBytes wrote about the case and also conducted the following interview Heist via email. More: continued here

Buy Perata's ride (pimping already included)Sacramento Bee,  USA –Feb 26, 2008It looks like whoever ended up with Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata's Dodge Charger has put the car back up for sale — on eBay. …State Senator's stolen car on eBayInside Bay Areaall 12 news articles More: continued here

Lessons Learned From Scaling Services at Google and eBayInfoQ.comRandy Shoup shared his experiences to the QCon London audience in scaling services at Google and eBay, giving advice on building and operating services. A successful services strategy requires end-to-end service ownership, decentralized … More: continued here

UPDATE 11.15am: eBay reveals it monitors potential bomb buyers, after a man faced allegations he imported an arsenal. More: continued here

San Francisco Chronicle Whitman names team for financing campaignSan Francisco Chronicle,  USAWhitman, the former president and CEO of eBay, last week announced her exploratory committee for a run at governor, and Thursday announced the finance gurus behind her political run. They include a range of Silicon Valley biggies, business leaders and …Whitman names gubernatorial finance…

Wall Street Journal (blog) Stocks head higher for third day in a row; IBM, eBay jump after posting better …Washington PosteBay jumped 9 percent after the company reported that its second-quarter net income doubled, thanks to higher revenue from its PayPal online payments business and its e-commerce websites. eBay rose $3.73 to $44.19. The market…