Carl Icahn's campaign to convince eBay Inc to spin off its PayPal payments service will intensify in the run-up to eBay's shareholders' meeting in May, eBay's chief executive said on Thursday, warning employees to ignore the "noise." EBay CEO John Donahoe and directors of the Internet retailer have traded barbs …

Reader's Write: Post Office needs to think outside mailboxThe Island NowThere is still far more to be done, if “Postal Service committed to serving well” (Letter to the Editor by John Tanna, Jr. – manager post office operations United States Post Office – March 7). The Post Office should continue …

Plan To Sell Farley Post Office Air Rights Outrages NeighborsCurbed NYFarleyPostOffice-small.JPG Members of Manhattan's Community Board 4 expressed their anger and bewilderment last night over the Empire State Development Corporation's recent decision to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Farley Post Office's air … More: continued here

Layoffs Hit eBay's Magento Division; Product Chief ExitsRe/codeEBay has laid off dozens of people in its Magento e-commerce software division, two people familiar with the moves told Re/code. The total number of affected jobs is near 50, one of these people said. The layoffs included cuts in Magento's product and … …

eBay, Carl Icahn, and the Growing Battle for PayPal's FutureMotley FoolIn case you hadn't been paying attention, e-commerce powerhouse eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY ) and famed activist investor Carl Icahn don't exactly see eye to eye. After waging similar activist campaigns against other high profile tech companies like Apple and … More: …

NDTV Verizon-branded HTC One (2014) listed for sale on eBay with specificationsNDTVAs noted in a report by GSMArena, the All New HTC One (M8), was listed for sale on eBay (US) at $499 (approximately Rs. 30,500). A Verizon-branded 32GB HTC One (2014) 4G LTE smartphone was listed on Wednesday, without …

Sidney Moss: Post Office should get into bankingGazetteNETThe Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service contends that the Post Office could now begin to provide banking service to Americans who currently have no checking or saving accounts. This is both a populist idea and a practical solution to …

Haaretz Metal stamps used to tattoo Jewish prisoners of Auschwitz discoveredJerusalem PostIn a press release Elżbieta Cajzer, Head of the Museum Collections at the Auschwitz Museum said “we acquired removable metal plates with a few millimeter-long needles, which were inserted into a special stamp to create a specific number. The …

Stornoway Gazette Post Office u-turn on island mortgagesStornoway GazetteJohn Willcock Head of Post Office Mortgages said: “Post Office is committed to making it as easy as possible for customers to access its products and services. We have listened to comments regarding the availability of our range of mortgages to …Post …

A new kind of post office made its debut in Raleigh on Wednesday. The Village Post Office at the Kargo Express Mart held a grand opening ceremony. More: continued here