TBT: How Meg Whitman built ‘quirky little’ eBay – Fortune

Fortune TBT: How Meg Whitman built 'quirky little' eBayFortuneIt was a year after Meg Whitman landed at eBay EBAY 1.82% , the “quirky little company” that went public and soared to an $18 billion stock-market valuation. This was the height of the first Internet bubble, and thanks in part to …

Read More »

EBay’s stock gains after Piper Jaffray upgrade – MarketWatch

EBay's stock gains after Piper Jaffray upgradeMarketWatchEBay Inc.'s stock EBAY, +1.47% edged up 0.7% in premarket trade Thursday, after the e-commerce company was upgraded by Piper Jaffray on the belief the current valuation fully reflects the challenges the company faces. Analyst Gene Munster raised his … More: continued here

Read More »

Chris Brown — Tupac Lambo Bombs on eBay – TMZ.com

TMZ.com Chris Brown — Tupac Lambo Bombs on eBayTMZ.com0902-chris-brown-splash-01 Chris Brown's paint job on his old 2004 Lamborghini Gallardo really did a number on the resale price, because the fancy whip — once worth $500k — is barely notching six digits at auction on eBay. The hot rod's starting bid …

Read More »

Food stamps…an unappetizing trend – Dailysunnews

Dailysunnews Food stamps…an unappetizing trendDailysunnewsFor one, the food-stamp program (officially known now as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is still much larger today than it was a decade ago – or, indeed, just a few years ago. In 2008, it was below 30 million. By 2013, it had …

Read More »

Early movers: SLB, LULU, EBAY, MDT, JOY & more – CNBC

CNBC Early movers: SLB, LULU, EBAY, MDT, JOY & moreCNBCeBay—Piper Jaffray upgraded the online auction site to "neutral" from "underweight" to reflect the shareholder impact of the completed PayPal spinoff. Piper said expectations of market share loss and structural limitations to growth are appropriately … More: continued here

Read More »

The Small-Scale Story Behind eBay’s Big Bucks – TIME

TIME The Small-Scale Story Behind eBay's Big BucksTIMEThe origin story of eBay—which was founded 20 years ago, as AuctionWeb, on Sept. 3, 1995–is fairly well-known: other tech giants have their garages, eBay has its Pez dispenser. Or, rather, founder Pierre Omidyar's then-fiancée didn't have a Pez dispenser.eBay Turns 20: Key …

Read More »

Food Stamps: The Coolio Maxim – FITSNews

Food Stamps: The Coolio MaximFITSNewsThat's true. Although food stamp costs declined modestly from 2013 to 2014, enrollment and annual costs have yet to come down from the 2007-13 surge – which saw the number of dependents nearly double and the costs of the program nearly quadruple. More: continued here

Read More »