Online reseller gets 10-year deal in exchange for creating 360 jobs at Chicago Braintree business Illinois has pledged $12 million over 10 years to eBay in exchange for the creation of 360 jobs in downtown Chicago, Gov. Pat Quinn's office said Friday. More: continued here

Congressman Yucks It Up On House Floor Amid Naming Of Post Office For …Daily CallerOn Tuesday, The Daily Caller's Mirror blog reported that Alaskan Republican Rep. Don Young was clowning around on the House floor during the naming of a post office. He stuck his fingers in his ears and …

With the World Cup in full swing, online auction platform eBay has made an inventory of the soccer-related purchases users have made since last March. According to its ranking of the most popular jerseys, Argentine player Lionel Messi is on top, just above Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar. More: continued here

VentureBeat Resigned, my ass: PayPal president David Marcus was fired, say eBay, Inc. execsVentureBeateBay president John Donahoe presided over an all-hands meeting at eBay's San Jose headquarters in early June where Marcus' departure was announced. At that meeting, Marcus said he was voluntarily stepping down to take a position at …

HV Post Office To Be Named For Fallen CIA AgentWAMCThe U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously to approve Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney's legislation to rename the post office on Route 17M in Monroe as the “National Clandestine Service of the Central Intelligence Agency NCS … More: continued here

My mom recently handed me a large bag of stamps she had collected as a child. There are thousands of stamps from about 100 countries, most from the 1910s to the 1950s. It’s a treasure trove. More: continued here

Last month, Carl Icahn ended the proxy war with eBay. More: continued here

CNBC.com Rare stamp sets record at NYC auctionCNBC.comA 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America has become the world's most valuable stamp—again. The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta sold Tuesday at auction in New York for $9.5 million, Sotheby's said. It was the … More: continued …

Lessons from Stamp CollectingCato Institute (blog)The world's first postage stamp was the British Penny Black in 1840, which portrayed Queen Victoria. Stamps were introduced as part of U.K. postal reforms to cut government waste and mismanagement. The first U.S. stamps in 1847 showed Franklin and …and more » More: continued here

Wonkette (satire) Exclusive: American Family Association Bravely Refuses To Touch Sodomite …Wonkette (satire)You may recall that we recently challenged you to send the nice folks at the American Patriarchy Association some love in envelopes adorned with Harvey Milk stamps, which they are urging people to boycott because ew, gay. And …