TIME Square Stays One Step Ahead Of PayPal With App Update (EBAY)San Francisco ChronicleSquare could face a tough fight against PayPal, which has a huge built-in userbase and the muscle of eBay behind it. But whoever wins in the end, the experience itself is what matters. It's new and so obviously better than the current…
eBay Offloads Rent.com To Sharpen Focus On Payments & Mobile CommerceForbeseBay is selling off one of its online properties – Rent.com – to Primedia, in order to focus on its core e-commerce and payments businesses. [1] Rent.com was acquired by eBay for $400 million in 2004 to get into the online real estate market.Primedia to…
Food stamp program under fireBoston HeraldBy Pamela M. Prah / Stateline.org WASHINGTON — The odds of winning one of Michigan's high-stakes lottery games are 1 in 10000, but the probability of two people hitting million-dollar jackpots and still be collecting food stamps has to be even more …and more » More: continued here
Postal workers repeated their demand to keep the post public on Monday after reports suggested Royal Mail might be sold off next year. A share offering, or IPO, for the vital 500-year-old service would be the biggest privatisation since Britain's railways were handed to privateers in the '90s. More: continued here
CBS News Buyers snap up half-price cars in eBay promotionCBS News(MoneyWatch) Some buyers with fast fingers are scoring new cars at half price as part of a joint promotion of auction site eBay Motors and online seller AutoNation. AutoNation, the largest group of US car dealerships, is promoting the launch of its … More: continued…
Triad Retail Media and the Car Care Council Bring New “Car Care Center” to …MarketWatch (press release)TAMPA, Fla., Mar 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — In celebration of April's National Car Care Month, eBay Motors has launched a new rich media content center in partnership with the Car Care Council and Triad Retail Media.and more » More:…
ThinkProgress EBay And GOP Lawmaker Score Clean Energy Win In UtahThinkProgressBy Climate Guest Blogger on Mar 26, 2012 at 9:43 am by Mindy Lubber, reposted from Forbes When eBay, the world's largest online marketplace, built its first-ever data center in South Jordan, Utah, it wanted to not only design and build the site to LEED…
Times LIVE EBay blocks sale of sorbitol after death in ItalyReutersROME, March 26 (Reuters) – Online auction company EBay Inc said on Monday it had blocked global sales of sorbitol following the death of a medical patient in Italy who consumed a sample of the sugar substitute which had been bought on the Internet.eBay blocks…
Philately getting stamp of approvalThe Australian10 million ($15m) rare stamps fund. The stamp dealer, whose annual profits rose by 17 per cent to pound stg. 5.2m, said that wealthy families, institutions and even hedge funds were delving into philately in search of solid returns. It spent pound stg. More: continued here
New Yorker The Wayward PressNew YorkerOn Thursday, January 19th, the front page of the Daily Mail carried a story about Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. During Goodwin's tenure, from 2000 to 2008, RBS quadrupled its assets, …and more » More: continued here