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Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Wants to Be California's Next GovernorFOXNewsThe former eBay chairman should know. She built eBay from a company with just 30 employees to one with 15000 workers and $8 billion in revenues. Now she wants to do the same for cash-strapped California and is running for …

EBay, an online auction site, announced plans to close a customer service facility in Vancouver that employs 700 people.According to a statement by eBay, the closing of the Canadian facility is suppose to be completed by September 30 of this year, and is part of a plan to “consolidate its …

Online marketplace operator EBay Inc. said Tuesday it will close its Vancouver, Canada customer service facilities by Sept. 30, affecting 700 workers, in a move to consolidate its North American customer service plants. More: continued here

[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.] When eBay first came onto the scene more than a decade ago, archaeologists were petrified: easily buying and selling antiquities online might increase the looting and trafficking of archaeological treasures. Now they’re letting out a sigh of relief. Charles Stanish of …

Leegin/Ebay decisionBlast, MA – Michael KaufmannPSKS, the Supreme Court decided (and I'm paraphrasing here with my decidedly non-legal background) to allow for a new standard of stricter enforcement of minimum retail prices to which both online stores and individual people — ebay sellers included … More: continued here

EBAY Australia laid down the gauntlet to Apple’s iTunes Store, becoming the world’s first eBay auction site to sell new digital songs alongside secondhand CDs. More: continued here

Canadians have a reputation for being polite and kind people.  Unfortunately for around 700 customer service agents in Vancouver, this won’t be enough to save their jobs, as eBay’s announced its intentions to close a facility by the end of September.  eBay will create some positions at a Salt Lake …

May 6 (Bloomberg) — EBay Inc. ’s initial public offering for Skype could value the Internet-calling service at more than $2 billion, Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe said. More: continued here

The Deal: From Terminator to AuctionatorFOXBusinessSo Meg Whitman of eBay fame has auctioned off her corporate life for a political one, convinced what worked for her in the corner office will land her in the governor's office. And clearly Republicans sense they're happening now, and this is their …FOX NEWS …

Options traders bid up calls in eBay-05/06/2009NASDAQ, New YorkEBAY has been in a nice uptrend since hitting the low of $9.91 on March 6 and gapping up on the company's earnings report April 23. As the stock continues to rally, the option traders have moved in, with the most significant action …