ITN Royal Mail calls for end to price controls after profits collapseIndependent, UK –3 hours agoBy David Prosser, Deputy Business Editor Royal Mail's chief executive, Adam Crozier, is to call for price controls in the market to be lifted after …End to daily rounds debated as Royal Mail drops into redScotsmanRoyal Mail demands cash after £279m lossTimes…
Stamps in a drawer for 20 years sell for £220000Mid Sussex Today, UK –11 hours agoThe family, which lives in a village near Lewes, had a rare collection of French and French colonial stamps which were sold for more than £220000 by … More: continued here
Royal Mail’s core postal operation has tumbled into the red amid steep declines in post-office footfall and mail volumes as the internet age finally takes its toll. More: continued here
dBTechno MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And …Washington Post, United States –4 hours agoMySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their …MySpace Bridges Out To eBay, Twitter, Photobucket, Yahoo!PC WorldMySpace Opens Walled Garden, Partners with YahooeWeekMySpace Embraces Data PortabilityNew York…
SPOKANE — The downtown post office was evacuated around 9:30 a.m. this morning after a report of a threatening letter. A foreign substance was found in the package prompting the evacuation (See reporter Will Pitts’s noon report). More: continued here
Royal Mail’s chief executive, Adam Crozier, is to call for price controls in the market to be lifted after revealing that the company lost £200m on its regulated letters and parcels business last year. More: continued here
Bankers slam eBay’s PayPal plan as anti-competitiveSmartCompany.com.au, Australia –45 minutes agoThe Australian Bankers’ Association says eBay Australia’s proposal to force Australian customers to use its wholly-owned subsidiary PayPal would … More: continued here
Royal Mail’s letters business has plunged into a loss, as the number of items posted plummeted last year and private sector competitors continued to win contracts to collect and sort post for large mail users. More: continued here
In its quest to make online shopping safer, auction website eBay seems to have stirred up a hornet’s nest of discontent. For approximately five million Australians, eBay has become a virtual marketplace for buyers and sellers to exchange goods. More: continued here
Social networking site MySpace said Thursday it will soon enable users to quickly share profile data with Web sites operated by Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and others. More: continued here