eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace, today announced a smartphone trade-in promotion from today through Oct. 5 for eBay Instant Sale, an electronics trade-in program that has generated more than 2 million smartphone offers since launching in October 2010. More: continued here

iPhone 5 Launch to Boost iPhone 4 SalesMobileMarketing.co.ukWith the expected imminent release of the iPhone 5 tomorrow, eBay is predicting a rise on sales of up to 70 per cent of previous iPhone models. The online marketplace saw a similar trend last year when the iPhone 4 went on sale, …

Doing a little guess work here. Shares of Stamps.com spiked 12% today for no obvious reason. But I have to wonder if the shares were goosed by one of the smaller pieces of news to come out of today?s Apple iPhone 4S launch event. Early in today?s proceedings, Apple VP …

USA Today Bill Buckner Ball Auction: Historic Ball To Go On eBay This Month (VIDEO)Huffington PostThe prize souvenir from the 1986 World Series will go on eBay this month with a $1 million price tag, put up for auction by the Grammy-nominated songwriter who once bought it from actor Charlie …

According to a Facebook page devoted to saving the Arrow Rock Post Office, the U.S. Postal Service “has posted its formal proposal today to close the Arrow Rock post office and offer rural delivery out of Blackwater.” More: continued here

Stamps.com: Apple Cards Play?ForbesShares of Stamps.com spiked 12% today for no obvious reason. But I have to wonder if the shares were goosed by one of the smaller pieces of news to come out of today's Apple iPhone 4S launch event. Early in today's proceedings, Apple VP of iOS software …

Junking the Junk Mail OfficeWall Street JournalCustomers wait in line at a Philadelphia post office. In addition to rejecting a bailout and permitting bankruptcy, our political leaders should end the USPS's dysfunctional first-class mail monopoly, opening it up to private competition. …USPS could help 73m 'unbanked' people into digital economyPost …

Greg Johnson: Food stamp privileges include a bunch of junkKnoxville News SentinelThe hand-lettered sign in a Sevier County convenience store caused me pause, not unlike my conundrum a couple of weeks ago when I saw a customer use his EBT card — aka Benefit Security Card, an electronic version of …

Doug McCallum SVP EU moves to Senior Advisor to John DonahoeTameBayDoug McCallum, Senior Vice President and General Manager of eBay Marketplaces Europe, is moving to a new role as Senior Advisor to eBay Inc.'s President and CEO, John Donahoe. Doug's new role will be threefold – including Enterprise …Ebay director …

Stamp of approval on Flann O'Brien's centenaryBelfast Telegraph"The truth is that our stamps are, and always have been, deplorable: and, as the pavement artist would say, they are all our own work." So wrote Brian O'Nolan, alias Myles na gCopaleen, in his 'Cruiskeen Lawn' newspaper column in 1959. …and more » …