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Ex-GSI Executive Settles Insider-Trading Charges on eBay DealWall Street JournalThe SEC claimed Christopher Saridakis, then head of GSI's marketing solutions division, tipped off two friends and two relatives to the pending deal and encouraged them to trade on the information. Those people then passed on the privileged information … More: …

EBay is urging shareholders to support its directors and reject the pair put up by billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn.         More: continued here

Shopper Annoyed by Non-Matching Images inside eBay ListingsEcommerceBytes (blog)Recently, I noticed that eBay has begun inserting photos of items from stores such as Walmart and others I've never heard of before, RIGHT IN BETWEEN the large photo of the red top I'm checking out and the 6 other photos of …

ValueAct Acquired EBay Stake Before Icahn Prompted ExitBloombergActivist investor Jeffrey Ubben, who runs ValueAct Capital Management LLC, said his firm bought a stake in EBay Inc. (EBAY) and then quickly exited when the disclosure of Carl Icahn's investment inflated the stock price. ValueAct bought EBay at about …3 World Champions …

The Atlantic Booksellers: We Got Shakespeare's Personal Dictionary on eBayThe AtlanticIt surfaced on eBay, naturally, where the book's 1580 publication date and a seller's reference to "contemporary annotations" caught Koppelman's eye. Suspecting the book was what he now believes it to be, Koppelman paid $4,300 for it in 2008, he …

Daily Mail An eBay dress, homemade food and sale suits from M&S! Thrifty couple reveal …Daily MailSavings included swapping fresh flowers for plastic ones, ordering a dress from China via eBay and picking up suits in the M&S sale. Catering for the 60 guest who attended the reception, which took …

Feds accuse Saridakis of insider trading in eBay-GSI dealPhilly.com (blog)Saridakis' contact, identified in a separate SEC complaint as Jules Gardner, founder of online ad developer PointRoll, bought the stock and collected "an illicit profit of $260,304" when it doubled after the eBay deal was announced. Saridakis is also … More: …

The activist investor Carl Icahn has stepped up his attack on eBay, claiming the company’s chief executive, John Donahoe, oversaw a premature sale of Skype at a price that resulted in shareholders losing more than $4bn (£2.4bn).         More: continued here

Today eBay announced updated apps for iPhone and iPad, adding improvements to its buying and selling features. Allowing eBay users to access the online marketplace to buy or sell items, v3.3 for iPhone and iPad features increased app speeds, and for iPad only, a new in-store pick-up option for local …

How Carl Icahn Met His Match in eBay's DonahoeBloombergApril 23 (Bloomberg) –- Harvard Business School Professor Bill George and Global Head of Blackstone Advisory Partners John Studzinski discuss activism and the lessons from eBay vs. Icahn. They speak with Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle on …and more » More: continued here