EBay is urging shareholders to support its directors and reject the pair put up by billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn.         More: continued here

Shopper Annoyed by Non-Matching Images inside eBay ListingsEcommerceBytes (blog)Recently, I noticed that eBay has begun inserting photos of items from stores such as Walmart and others I've never heard of before, RIGHT IN BETWEEN the large photo of the red top I'm checking out and the 6 other photos of …

National Post South Korea ferry: Prime Minister offers to resign over rescue effortNational PostObama's first South Korean visit since Park took office last year was aimed at issues including North Korea, but he noted that his trip comes at a time of “great sorrow.” AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. “So many were …

The Independent Government 'lets City off the hook' on Royal Mail dealThe IndependentThe Government has made no attempt to contact the handful of big City investors given preferential treatment during the Royal Mail flotation fiasco, despite many of them breaking an apparent gentlemen's agreement not to sell their shares. Some …

ValueAct Acquired EBay Stake Before Icahn Prompted ExitBloombergActivist investor Jeffrey Ubben, who runs ValueAct Capital Management LLC, said his firm bought a stake in EBay Inc. (EBAY) and then quickly exited when the disclosure of Carl Icahn's investment inflated the stock price. ValueAct bought EBay at about …3 World Champions …

Daily Mail An eBay dress, homemade food and sale suits from M&S! Thrifty couple reveal …Daily MailSavings included swapping fresh flowers for plastic ones, ordering a dress from China via eBay and picking up suits in the M&S sale. Catering for the 60 guest who attended the reception, which took …

The Atlantic Booksellers: We Got Shakespeare's Personal Dictionary on eBayThe AtlanticIt surfaced on eBay, naturally, where the book's 1580 publication date and a seller's reference to "contemporary annotations" caught Koppelman's eye. Suspecting the book was what he now believes it to be, Koppelman paid $4,300 for it in 2008, he …

Does Royal Mail PLC (LON: RMG) have the right credentials to be classed as a very attractive growth play? More: continued here

Feds accuse Saridakis of insider trading in eBay-GSI dealPhilly.com (blog)Saridakis' contact, identified in a separate SEC complaint as Jules Gardner, founder of online ad developer PointRoll, bought the stock and collected "an illicit profit of $260,304" when it doubled after the eBay deal was announced. Saridakis is also … More: …

More women on food stamps than in the work forceWPECHe would like to see food stamps tied to work requirements like other welfare programs, but he doesn't see that happening. "They make people dependent on government for the long term and not transitioning them to work which is what really …