EBay Inc. has been struggling to improve its online marketplace, and the company acknowledged Wednesday that it still has a long way to go. More: continued here

EBay Inc, fending off worries that its best days are over, hopes to transform itself by galvanizing growth at its PayPal payments system and jump-starting its lagging core business, top executives said on Wednesday. More: continued here

Food nutrition programs don't lead to obesity: USDAReutersBy Christopher Doering WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Food stamps, school lunch and other public nutrition programs do not contribute to an obesity epidemic affecting millions of children and adults, despite blame levied by critics, US and academic officials … More: continued here

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Internet search leader Google Inc. is preparing to steer more telephone traffic through an online command center that it acquired nearly two years ago. More: continued here

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Alibaba Seeks to Work With Google, EBay, MicrosoftBloombergAlibaba is exploring relationships with companies such as Google Inc., EBay Inc., Yahoo! Inc. and Microsoft Corp., Ma said today in an interview in New York. More than a dozen executives of Hangzhou, China-based Alibaba have visited US companies in the … More: …

Washington Post Former employee of Obama CIO pick busted for briberyRegister, UK… of soliciting and accepting bribes in exchange for awarding contracts, according to The Washington Post and other publications. Acar was an information-systems security officer in the District of Columbia's Office of the Chief Technology Officer. …FBI searches Kundra's former …

Pagunsan stamps class, but it’s not JuvicManila Standard Today, PhilippinesBy Adriano Flores Rey Pagunsan, uncle of multi-titled Juvic, pounced on every opportunity to score on four birdies for a four-under-par 68 at the start of the Mercedes-Benz Masters Singapore played at the Masters course of the Laguna National Golf and … …

EBay Inc. has been struggling to improve its online marketplace, and the company acknowledged Wednesday that it still has a long way to go. But eBay also highlighted the strength of its PayPal unit, predicting its business will double in size by 2011. More: continued here