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eBay Site Goes Down Early Friday AM, Comes Back OnlineEcommerceBytes (blog)eBay experienced an outage this morning (August 26) at about 5 am ET. It's unclear exactly how long the site was unavailable, but it appeared from reports on DownDetector to have lasted for about 35 minutes. Users said they were unable to access eBay …and more »…

eBay, which filed a lawsuit against Craigslist earlier this month, has made public the details of the lawsuit, though with some parts censored out. More: continued here

Valuable 500-year-old sword saved from eBay saleNorthampton Chronicle & Echo, UK –6 hours agoBy Wayne Bontoft An historic sword which was almost sold on the internet auction site eBay could provide vital new evidence on how the Battle of Naseby was … More: continued here

The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) announced it has filed an amicus brief with the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in support of Tiffany’s appeal in its lawsuit against eBay. The brief states that the Court should hold eBay contributorily liable for failing to prevent illegal sales of counterfeit and infringing goods…

The government claims the “handshake agreement” was arrived at and refined by EBay executives including former Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman and Intuit co-founder and former CEO Scott Cook from 2006 to 2009 to restrict recruiting and hiring each others’ workers, according to the complaint filed in federal court in San Jose, California. More: continued…

MetroFi selling Wi-Fi gear on eBayBizjournals.com, NC –12 minutes agoThrough San Jose-based eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) MetroFi's reserve price was $520 each for the cones, which list for $3499 each new. … More: continued here