eBay Q2 Earnings Recap: PayPal And MarketPlace Continue To DeliverSeeking AlphaMobile continues to show robust growth. According to management, mobile volume is expected to double in 2012. eBay's mobile app has been downloaded 90 million times and is gaining momentum among both buyers and sellers. Sellers are listing 2 million …

The Atlantic Food stamp debate brings out haters of the American poorYoungstown VindicatorIt didn't take long for the more hard-hearted of the small-government crowd to respond to the news that the feds spent about $75.7 billion on their food stamp initiative last year, which is double what it spent four …

Food stamps: let's provide a safety net, not a mattressRenewAmericaGovernment provision of food stamps has become the second-largest welfare program in the country and is expanding rapidly. Rich Lowry shares the latest statistics, and they are troubling to say the least. Through the combined efforts of Presidents Bush … More: …

While lawmakers continue to fight over how to fix the ailing U.S. Postal Service, the agency's money problems are only growing worse. More: continued here

Daily Mail Golf: Royal Portrush's chances of staging Open are dentedWalesOnlineby Anthony Woolford, Western Mail; Jul 19 2012. THE chances of Welshman Jamie Donaldson returning to the scene of his epic Irish Open win earlier this month for a Claret Jug contest has suffered a heavy blow, with Royal Portrush …

eBay Management Discusses Q2 2012 Results – Earnings Call TranscriptSeeking AlphaGood day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to eBay Second Quarter 2012 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call may be recorded. I would now like to hand the conference over to Ms. Tracey Ford, Director …

Daily Mail TalkTalk: Paralysed Royal Marine left without vital phone system after …Daily MailA paralysed former Royal Marine was left without a vital phone system used to keep him alive – after phone supplier TalkTalk cut him off for a whole week. Dominic Lovett, paralysed four years ago, relies solely …

Aurora post office to be closedYorkRegion.comMonths after Canada Post first floated idea, it confirmed yesterday the main Aurora post office at 20 Wellington St. E. will close for good Aug. 17. That will be the final day for the retail counter, whose three employees will be relocated to Newmarket. More: …

New Home post office unexpectedly shuts downMYfoxLUBBOCK.COMTalk about a surprise in the mailbox, residents of New Home just got one. It's a letter informing them their post office is shutting down, and it's wasn't on the closure list. The contractor who operates the post office has been suspended, so the …

EBay Inc posted stronger-than-expected quarterly revenue and earnings as more consumers shopped on its online marketplaces and used its PayPal payment service, and it stuck to its full-year forecasts, … More: continued here