eBay, Icahn Cold War Ends – Analyst BlogNASDAQReportedly, Icahn, who owns 2.15% of eBay, withdrew his campaign to add two of his employees – Daniel Ninivaggi and Jonathan Christodoro – to the eBay Board and divest the PayPal unit. However, eBay will appoint David Dorman, a founding partner of … More: …

If you’re procrastinating on filing your income-tax returns, don’t expect to run to the post office minutes before midnight on Tuesday and make the deadline. More: continued here

By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – Investigators were focusing on Saturday on what caused a FedEx tractor-trailer to collide with a bus in a fiery crash in northern California that killed 10 people, five of them teenage students en route to a college recruitment event. It remained unclear whether …

Mirror.co.uk Woman selling serial killer Dr Harold Shipman's examination couch on eBay for …Mirror.co.ukOn the eBay listing, Ms Chakravarti give the following description of the examination couch: "In use for many years Abraham Ormerod Day Hospital, Todmorden, which was originally opened in 1938. "In 1983 it was re-opened as day …

The tax day midnight madness is no more. More: continued here

A legend of the Chicago post office retired Friday. More: continued here

eBay gets 'even' with Carl IcahnFortune (blog)FORTUNE — Carl Icahn today ended his three-month old feud with eBay Inc. (EBAY), agreeing to withdraw his nominations for two board seats and his insistence that the company sell a minority stake in its PayPal unit back to shareholders (as you may … …

UK Royal Mail spotlight reopens rift between bankers and advisersReutersBritain's Public Accounts Committee (PAC), a group of legislators who scrutinise aspects of government finances, said on Thursday it would quiz independent firm Lazard over its role in the Royal Mail float. Its comments came a week after a National … …

MANTORVILLE — The Mantorville post office faces a reduction in hours because it doesn't bring in enough money, a Postal Service manager told about 20 customers on Thursday. More: continued here

Agreement includes demands on job security, pensions and other conditions and union involvement in running of business Royal Mail staff will get a pay increase of more than 9% over three years after the company and its union announced what they said was a groundbreaking legal agreement on industrial relations …