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The Simpsons, America’s most enduring — or is that endearing? — dysfunctional family will be honored on their own stamps, the Postal Service announced. More: continued here

Old Post Office Plaza to open FridayBizjournals.com, NCA decade after city planners conceived of the plot of land as a park, the $8 million Old Post Office Plaza will officially open Friday. Owners of the 30000 square-foot park blamed underground debris and bad weather for the delay and cost overruns. … …

Controversial UK Government plans for part-privatisation of Royal Mail are “in pieces” after a Commons Committee said the government has not made the case for the move, and criticised the worrying lack of transparency over Lord Mandelson’s proposals. More: continued here

Food stamps better spent money than big bailoutsSouth Alabamian, ALAlong the way she applied for public assistance and was given $11 in food stamps. She stopped at a grocery after a long night of work. Exhausted, she unloaded her cart slowly, with the food stamps on the counter. The guy behind …

The Government’s controversial plan to part-privatise the Royal Mail has come under attack from a cross-party committee of MPs which complained about a ‘lack of transparency’ about the proposals. More: continued here

EBay is moving ahead with a project to let third-party developers build applications on top of Selling Manager, eBay’s tools used by thousands of merchants to manage their businesses on its Web site. More: continued here

Phones Review VeriSign app turns iPhone into security deviceMacworld, CAFor now, the VeriSign app is primarily for use with eBay, AOL, and Paypal. In the future, your bank could support it. If you’re like me and you play World of Warcraft, there’s another app available for keeping your account safe from …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – FedEx Corp will cancel an order to buy 15 Boeing Co jets, as well as an option for a further 15 planes, if Congress passes legislation that makes it easier for FedEx workers to organize under labor unions. More: continued here

EBay's Skype files claim against Joltid in UKForbes, NYAP , 04.01.09, 05:55 PM EDT Skype, a unit of eBay Inc., said Wednesday it has asked a UK court to resolve a dispute with Joltid Ltd., which owns peer-to-peer communication technology that Skype licenses for use in its software. … More: continued …

April 1 (Bloomberg) — FedEx Corp. didn’t illegally deny overtime pay to contract delivery drivers who accused the company of wrongly calling them entrepreneurs while treating them as employees, a Seattle jury decided. More: continued here