Sky News Exclusive: Royal Mail Chief To Urge Regulatory ReprieveSky News (blog)Moya Greene, chief executive of Royal Mail, will tomorrow urge the creation of a level playing field for the company as it posts an annual loss of more than £100m in its traditional letters arm. I have learned that …
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Nike superfan creates ShoeZeumESPNIn April of 2010, Geller paid $3383 for these track shoes on eBay, a 1973 model that had been designed for Steve Prefontaine. He would have these in the 1976 Olympics, but he was killed in a traffic accident in '75. This pair was found in an …
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NEW YORK (AP) — eBay Inc. on Monday said it will pay about $27 million to settle lawsuits by shareholders of GSI Commerce Inc., which eBay is acquiring, that accused the companies of shortchanging GSI shareholders. More: continued here
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Read More »Former eBay Exec Josh Silverman Joins American Express – Auctionbytes
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In addition to the $2.4 billion eBay was already paying to acquire GSI Commerce, it has agreed to dole out more to settle claims that will now bring total merger costs to more than $3 billion. More: continued here
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Post Office To Deliver Roman Letters Home – 2000 Years Late.The Spoof (satire)"Everyone moans on and on about how poor the postal service is in this country – but how crap must the Romans have been? These letters didn't even get off base! "But, just to show there's no hard …
Read More »Bairoil opposes plan to close post office – Billings Gazette
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Read More »Raritan’s Energy and Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions Receive … – Sacramento Bee
Raritan's Energy and Data Center Infrastructure Management Solutions Receive …Sacramento BeeRaritan won the "Environmental Project of the Year" award for its case study on eBay's implementation of data center energy-saving solutions. The case study details how eBay created and began executing a four-year data center plan with an ambitious …and …
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