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FedEx Corp. Chief Executive Fred Smith said Monday that U.S. reliance on foreign oil is the biggest threat to the nation’s economy after terrorism. “The consequences of our energy dependence are real,” Smith said in remarks at the National Press Club. A major… More: continued here

MyFox Los Angeles Family Living in Missouri Cave Puts Home on eBayFOXNewsLOUIS — In a twist to the US housing crisis, a family that has been living in a home built inside a cave in suburban St. Louis has put it up for sale on eBay. Curt and Deborah Sleeper …

Auction site eBay has warned users of a T rojan horse affecting the Auctiva auction service. The virus affects users managing eBay auctions… More: continued here

ONLINE marketplace eBay has tied up with express services provider DHL to allow eBay sellers in Malaysia and other Asia-Pacific countries the option of sending goods sold online through DHL. More: continued here

Auctiva.com sets Google’s alarm bells ringing. A Trojan horse lurking on servers belonging to Auctiva.com, a website offering eBay auction tools, infected people’s PCs last week. More: continued here

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) — Business spending in the U.S. may start to recover in the second half of 2009 as companies replenish inventories, said Fred Smith , chief executive officer of FedEx Corp., the second-largest U.S. package-delivery company. More: continued here

A new Firefox extension keeps an eye on eBay auctions and bids for you at the very last possible second. More: continued here

AUSTRALIA Post’s apparent failure to deliver a letter sent to its own head office has made its chief miss a Senate estimates hearing. More: continued here

From this year, eBay will open the doors on a new site offering malware scanning to its users as part of a raft of new features aimed at beating the phishers and virus writers. The site, eBay Garage, will run an embedded application that will scan users’ PCs for any …