TechEye Raspberry Pi Lands eBay Bidding Up To $2700 USDTom’s Hardware GuideThe Raspberry Pi beta boards that are currently auctioning on eBay are reaching bids of up to $2700 USD. The retail version will sell for $25 and $35 USD. On New Year's Eve, the team behind the uber-small PC …
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Globe and Mail New Chief Brings Affable Manner and a Boston AccentWall Street JournalBy STU WOO Yahoo Inc.'s new chief executive, Scott Thompson, doubled the revenue at eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit over the past four years. Now he must try and repeat that trick at a much larger Internet business …
Read More »Intel engineers arrested for selling sample CPUs on eBay – TechSpot
EE Times Intel engineers arrested for selling sample CPUs on eBayTechSpotBy Shawn Knight Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) has arrested four Intel engineers for allegedly selling sample processors on eBay. The suspects, who were confirmed to be engineers at an OEM plant in Taiwan, were taken into custody in the …
Read More »Yahoo Finds New CEO at PayPal – Wall Street Journal
New York Times (blog) Yahoo Finds New CEO at PayPalWall Street JournalYahoo Inc., the struggling Internet pioneer, named Scott Thompson, president of eBay Inc.'s PayPal unit, to be its next chief executive. He will be tasked with turning around its core online-advertising business, Kara Swisher reports on digits. …Thompson exit …
Read More »British sprinter James Ellington fears the £32500 anonymous eBay sponsorship … – Telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph.co.uk British sprinter James Ellington fears the £32500 anonymous eBay sponsorship …Telegraph.co.ukBritish sprinter James Ellington fears he may have been the victim of a hoax after an anonymous bidder pledged £32500 on the eBay website to sponsor him between now and the London Olympics. By Simon Hart The south Londoner …
Read More »Netflix, eBay: Tech Winners & Losers – TheStreet.com
Netflix, eBay: Tech Winners & LosersTheStreet.comeBay(EBAY) shares fell 3.8% to close at $30.16 following news PayPal CEO Scott Thompson would be leaving the mobile payments arm to become chief executive of Yahoo!(YHOO). Under Thompson, PayPal expanded to more than 104 million active users around the …NASDAQ 100's Update, In focus:NFLX, …
Read More »eBay’s Shares Changing Hands at Lower Prices on 2.4x Above-Average Volume (EBAY) – Financial News Network Online
eBay's Shares Changing Hands at Lower Prices on 2.4x Above-Average Volume (EBAY)Financial News Network OnlineShares of eBay are trading today in above average volume, with the share price falling 3.6% to $30.20. Today's volume of 21.7 million shares tops the average 30-day volume of 9.0 million shares. Unusually high volume …
Read More »Unwanted Gifts? Try eBay Instant Sale
NEW YORK (MainStreet) — If you’re stuck with an unwanted Christmas present of the electronic variety but don’t have a receipt, you may have more options than you think. Online auction giant eBay has a site dedicated to buying electronic gadgets from consumers directly without a receipt, and will even …
Read More »Yahoo swipes PayPal exec; EBay boss John Donahoe to run unit
PayPal president Scott Thompson’s departure to run Yahoo took a lot of people by surprise (although not Kara Swisher, natch). That includes EBay’s chief executive, John Donahoe. Donahoe dispatched an email to PayPal employees Wednesday morning, saying Thompson told him… More: continued here
Read More »AutoNation, EBay, First Solar, Ford, GM: US Equity Movers – BusinessWeek
AutoNation, EBay, First Solar, Ford, GM: US Equity MoversBusinessWeekEBay Inc. (EBAY US) fell 3.6 percent to $30.22 after sinking as much as 5.7 percent, the most intraday since Oct. 20. Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO US) said it hired Scott Thompson of EBay's PayPal business as its chief executive officer. …Acme Packet, …
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