Amazon, eBay: Same Store Sales Update For February 2012Seeking AlphaWe are releasing February 2012 data for Marketplaces (eBay (EBAY)/Amazon (AMZN)), Search and Comparison Shopping Engines (CSE) along with supplemental data. This month is very unique because it adds the extra leap-year day of February 29th. More: continued here

The Consumerist $1M Lottery Winner Still on Food StampsFox News (blog)Amanda Clayton of Lincoln Park, Michigan still claims $200 a month in food stamps and despite paying cash for a new home and car said, 'I'm still struggling.' The 24-year-old added that she is entitled to the welfare handout as …

Summerlee gets stamp of approvalGlasgow Evening TimesBy STEF LACH A FORMER colliery winding engine at the heart of a Lanarkshire museum exhibit features on a new set of first class stamps. The engine, formerly at the Farme Colliery in Rutherglen, has recently been restored at Summerlee Museum in … More: …

NEWS.com.au Photo, story: Presidential McNugget sells for $8100 on eBayAppleton Post CrescentRebekah Speights of Dakota City, Neb., sold a three-year-old McDonald's Chicken McNugget that resembles President George Washington for $8100 on eBay. (AP photo/Sioux City Journal, Nathan Robson) The Associated Press A Nebraska woman has sold a …George Washington chicken …

Death of the passport stamp? Why the world of travel will be a little poorer …Daily Mail (blog)There are few things that speak quite as loudly of the wonderful globe-trotting possibilities of travel as the inky stamp that lands in your passport – with the thump of the bureaucratic fist …

Todd Lutwak, Vice President of Seller Experience at eBay, left the company after 12 years to become a consumer operating partner at venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Lutwak said he wanted a new challenge in the Valley and had been thinking about it for a while. More: continued here

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA– – NetBase , the Social Media Insight & Analysis company, today announced its latest Brand Passion Index, analyzing consumer passion and opinions online for four shipping companies. … More: continued here

A van owned by the Melvins and decorated by the former Nirvana frontman is up for auction. More: continued here

Orange County Breeze Ex-Marine arrested for selling restricted night vision components on eBayGovernment Security NewsSean Sayegh, 41, of Rosamond, CA was arrested after the undercover probe, lead by DHS, that alleges he lied to the government as part of a scheme to sell sensitive military equipment to buyers around the …

DatacenterDynamics Ebay Data Center A Case Study In Energy SavingsEarthTechlingby Kristy Hessman You can only imagine the huge volume of data that an operation like eBay stores and dishes out—and how much energy it might take to run its servers. So when the company needed to consolidate its data center …