Online auction fraud may be leveling out, according to numbers released by the US Federal Trade Commission.
An online auction of a "brand new vulnerability" in Microsoft Excel had reached about US$60 when eBay pulled the item late on Thursday.
The auction giant's effort to raise US$100 million in 100 days for disaster relief has some members complaining that it creates unfair competition.
The Reserve Bank of Australia today said it would shortly hold meetings with eBay subsidiary PayPal over the online auction giant's attempt to force sellers to offer PayPal as a payment option.
eBay is bringing the gavel down on its Auction for America charity effort.
Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
If you're to be in contract negotiations anytime soon, take heart from the following story -- vendors can be bargained with.
With personal information stored on computer hard drives so easy to access, it seems our security procedures aren't keeping up with technology.
Australia's ongoing PayPal saga has taken another turn today with the news that an anonymous submission sent to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) opposing eBay's exclusive deal with the payment provider was authored by Google.
Business sites that foster community trust, such as eBay, may serve as template for tomorrow's online campaigns, experts say.
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At Apple's WWDC 2008 in San Francisco, Ken Sun of eBay shows off Auctions on the iPhone. The new app has a basic front door with options to track auctions you've bid on, and see whether you've been outbid.
Phishing scams work on an embarrasingly low percentage of users -- but apparently that's enough to keep them profitable.
You've been thinking about buying a digital camera for some time now, but even though prices have dropped considerably, they're still too high for your budget. Well, it's time to do what untold consumers have been doing for millennia: haggle. People have done it over everything from camels and crown jewels to pickup trucks and boom boxes. In short, buy it used.
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