Search Engine Land Is eBay A Big Loser In Google's Panda 4.0 Update? — Winners & Losers DataSearch Engine Landgoogle-panda-generic-featured Yesterday, Google began rolling out their Panda 4.0 update designed to punch low-quality content. That's generated both “winners” who have moved up in rankings as “losers” have dropped down — …

Royal Mail Posts Strong Profit Growth in First Annual Results Since IPOWall Street JournalFor the year ended March 30, Royal Mail made a pretax profit of £363 million ($613.4 million), compared with £304 million a year earlier. Stripping out exceptional costs, mainly related to a pension-plan amendment, it made an …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A former West Tennessee corrections officer who faces the federal death penalty if convicted on charges of fatally shooting two U.S. postal workers during a robbery plans to change his not guilty plea. More: continued here

Boing Boing Three US states investigating eBay cyber attackReutersThe investigations come as some eBay customers complained in eBay Community forums and on social media that they received news about the breach from media sources first and not directly from the company. Some customers said they have yet to …eBay Tells Users …

Yahoo News Illinois, Florida join Connecticut in eBay probeReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) – Illinois and Florida are joining Connecticut to lead a probe of the massive data breach at eBay Inc, according to a spokeswoman for Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Meanwhile, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is …Connecticut attorney general …

Royal Mail Reveals Profits Rise To £430 Million After PrivatisationHuffington Post UKRoyal Mail has announced a rise in annual profits after revenues growth from parcel deliveries more than offset a further decline in letter volumes. In its first set of results since its controversial £3.3 billion stock market flotation in …

Royal Mail faces difficult task to keep ahead of competitionFinancial TimesRoyal Mail, which was losing money in its UK letters and parcels business three years ago, has made great strides since Moya Greene, its Canadian chief executive, arrived in 2010. But it has further to go both in raising efficiency …

Hackers raid eBay in historic breach, access 145M recordsCNBC.comEBay said that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised. It advised customers …

Outdoors Mailbag: Speckled-trout numbers, duck stamps and diving to hellThe Times-PicayuneI have been trying to get The Times-Picayune to address the price increase for the federal duck stamp. This is an important piece of conservation legislation that needs to be adjusted for inflation. Please let me know if you are …

KPVI News 6 Change of Plea in Tennessee Post Office ShootingsABC NewsProsecutors say Montgomery and his 18-year-old son tried to rob the rural post office, but they became angry and began shooting after they realized it had just $63 to steal. Federal prosecutors said last year they would be seeking …