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IT MUST be the most unusual post office job anywhere in the world. More: continued here

Gigaom eBay launches Pulsar, an open-source tool for quickly taming big dataVentureBeat“Pulsar can be used to collect and process user and business events in real time, providing key insights and enabling systems to react to user activities within seconds,” eBay's Sharad Murthy and Tony Ng wrote in a blog post …

Berkeleyside Legal battles over Berkeley's main Post Office continueBerkeleysideAccording to the lawsuit, USPS was contracting a sale of the post office without proper assessments required by the National Environment Protection Act and National Historic Preservation Act. That violated sections of the federal regulations by failing … More: continued here

Cincinnati Police Department's Intelligence Unit has a Metropolitan Sewer District engineer under investigation tonight after walking him out of MSD's headquarters on Feb. 12. The employee, Greg Doherty, has not been charged with a crime, but police continue investigating thousands of eBay sales connected to the city employee. More: continued …

The city of Berkeley is pushing forward with a lawsuit to stop the sale of the downtown Berkeley Post Office, despite the U.S. Postal Service’s claim that it is unnecessary as there is no imminent plan to sell the building, an attorney working for Berkeley told a crowd at a …

eBay has a new open-source, real-time analytics and stream-processing framework called Pulsar that the company claims is in production and is available for others to download, according to an eBay blog… More: continued here

Woolworths and eBay announced a delivery pickup service for customers to collect their online eBay purchases at their local supermarket. More: continued here

SUPERMARKET giant Woolworths has announced a joint venture with eBay that allows shoppers to pick up items won on the auction site at Woolies stores. More: continued here

The Daily Telegraph eBay, Woolworths and Big W team up to allow online shoppers the option of …The Daily Telegraph“The new service creates a brand new avenue for our sellers,” Hamish Moline, eBay's Merchant Development Director, said. “Not only that, it's a service we hope will revolutionise the way Australians …

Sydney Morning Herald Slower delivery and dearer stamps under planned Australia Post reformsSydney Morning HeraldRegular mail will take an extra day to arrive and basic stamps will cost up to $1 under a two-tiered pricing system expected to be announced within weeks by the Abbott government. The government's reform package …