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The Tech Herald Hacking iTunes Gift Cards, and an iTunes UpdateWashington Post, United StatesAfter all, shipping another eBay user a voucher code only takes a single e-mail and can be done instantly. What boggles my mind is how many people actually bid the price of an iTunes gift card well beyond …

It’s been a common refrain for the past couple of years that Amazon.com Inc. is growing much more quickly than eBay Inc. Now eBay appears to be moving away from directly competing with Amazon and other e-commerce sites that sell the latest merchandise, instead focusing on selling the kind of …

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

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: …

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

Optimism at eBay defies the facts surrounding the company’s core business. More: continued here

Gap, eBay, Symantec Join BICEP CoalitionEnvironmental Leader, COGap, eBay and Symantec are the latest members of the four-month old group, which was started by Ceres. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson opened the event. “Leadership from the business community is essential to our success in …BICEP Climate Policy Coalition Flexes Muscle …

A third straight tech advance comes amid signs of a rebound in the semiconductor industry and eBay’s upbeat near-term sales outlook. More: continued here

EBay ’s chief executive, John Donahoe, did nothing Wednesday to dispel ongoing speculation that the company is planning to put Skype, the Internet calling service it bought for $3 billion, on the block. More: continued here