Why the hack attack won’t matter to eBay

EBay and Wal-Mart Stores are developing new Web search engines to better compete against Amazon. The stakes are high because e-commerce is a huge, fast-growing market, putting billions of dollars in sales up for grabs. More: continued here

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) – Online auction site eBay didn’t prove as successful as a University of Virginia had hoped. Thirty-year-old Zack Ketz tried to use the site to get someone to foot the bill for his school expenses. More: continued here

Tesco, the supermarket group, has launched a shop on eBay, the auction website, to sell discontinued electronics lines and once-faulty customer returns that have been repaired. More: continued here

Peggy Sue selling Buddy Holly's Chevy on eBayKCBD-TVThe 1958 Chevy Impala is up for sale on eBay, currently with bids exceeding $100000. Clements says Norman Petty, Holly's manager, bought the car initially with the Holly and the Crickets account. The Holly family had the car for about seven years …and more » More: continued here

FRAUD officers have arrested several eBay users who were the subject of multiple complaints made through a world-first police website. More: continued here

EBay founder Pierre Omidyar told Bloomberg TV’s “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan” today that he would “find it very difficult” to vote for former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for governor, according to a transcript of the interview scheduled to air Wednesday. More: continued here