eBay Co-Founder's Media Company Launches Digital Magazine

In the coming weeks, we'll be offering a periodic look at media organizations which are trying to figure out how to report and present the news while paying for that amid major changes in the industry. In our first story, we hear about a new news organization funded by Pierre …

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Post Office Banking Plan Gains Support

An idea floated last month by the Inspector General of the U.S. Post Office, to solve the agency’s money problems by allowing it to get into the financial services business, appears to be catching on. The idea got a ringing endorsement from Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren earlier this month. In …

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You can't actually sell your Flappy Bird phone on eBay

Turns out this auction and others like it violated eBay's copyright policies. (Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) Despite numerous headlines flying around this week about smartphones with the now-grounded Flappy Bird app installed selling for as much as $100,000 on eBay, it's unlikely any of those sales have actually gone …

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