Federal probe of eBay may turn on quest for rival’s ‘secret sauce’

With eBay Inc. and Craigslist entrenched in a scorching legal feud last year, a Delaware judge observed that eBay’s “curious” decision to partner with the San Francisco online classified ad power back in 2004 was “an opportunity to learn the ‘secret sauce’ of Craigslist’s success.”

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