EBay Offers 3-Year Guidance—If Economy RecoversCNBC, Englewood CliffsAt a time when so many companies are dispensing with meaningful guidance of any kind, eBay is taking the unusual step of offering guidance 3 years out. Not specific, quarter-to-quarter numbers, mind you, but signposts investors can use to gauge the … More: continued …

Is eBay Ready To Start The Bidding For Skype?BusinessWeekAt its annual meeting today, eBay executives broke out more details about the health of its Skype unit than it has in the past. Turns out the Net phone calling software pioneer enjoyed 20% net income last year, on $550 million in …

EBay Outlines Three-Year Revival PlanBusinessWeekExecutives at eBay (EBAY) are making a concerted effort to keep their company off the list. In Mar. 11 presentations for Wall Street analysts at the company's San Jose (Calif.) headquarters, eBay executives detailed plans to increase revenue in the … More: continued here

Washington Informer New Food Stamp Act to Aid in Decreasing DC HungerWashington Informer, Washington DCOn Thursday, Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-At-Large) and colleagues introduced the new Food Stamp Expansion Bill to address the growing crisis. Executive Director, DC Fiscal Policy Institute, and officials from DC Departments of Human Services and … …

Telegraph.co.uk When coping with loss beats winning petty pointsguardian.co.uk, UKAnd that turned out to be Labour-on-Labour violence, as Geraldine Smith rose to demand that the government drop the plan to sell off part of Royal Mail, which she called "unwanted and unnecessary". Gordon Brown replied with his new strategy, …Video: Brown: …

Anger over removal of royal mail adThe Press AssociationThe postal workers union has claimed it was being "gagged" after adverts it paid for as part of its campaign against part-privatisation of the Royal Mail were suddenly taken down. The Communication Workers Union bought space for adverts to appear at …Stop …

eBay Kills Dutch Auctions, Sticks With Fxed-Price ListingsECommerce-Guide, United StatesBy Vangie Beal eBay has formally announced that it will discontinue the Dutch auction format on the site. The company says that this listing format in which sellers offer multiple-quantity items for sale in one Auction-style listing is little-used on …eBay Runs …

The Night Note: Modest Mouse and Ebay MistakesMSNBC(DCist) Education officials in Pennsylvania are red-faced after making a costly mistake on eBay. The East Stroudsburg School District was attempting to sell seven used classroom trailers, but an error in its ad on the online auction site allowed … More: continued here

Converge Network Digest Italian Post Office going to VoIPFierceVoIP, DCGruppo Poste Italiane (GPI) is being tricked out with the latest network infrastructure to support VoIP and other apps with the ultimate goal of supporting all of its regional offices and more than 14000 post offices throughout Italy. …Italian Post Office to …

CNET News Google’s Free Phone Manager Could Threaten a Variety of ServicesNew York Times, United StatesBy MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO — Google stepped up its attack on the telecommunications industry on Thursday with a free service called Google Voice that, if successful, could chip away at the revenue of companies big …