If think Google has been subjected to too much patent entanglements already (remember Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and eBay lawsuits?) due to their Android platform, think again. The search giant now faces another slew of patent infringement cases from one of UK’S biggest telecommunications company, British Telecom. If there’s any difference in this patent case filed [...]
Continue reading →Perhaps this is the last hurrah for the HP Touchpad? As you can remember, these tablets were pulled after just two and a half months on the market. Now you will have a chance to get one for yourself before they will be unavailable. The Palo Alto-based company will be selling the 16GB tablets at $99 [...]
Continue reading →Apparently, people are so much on-the-go that they’re not purchasing in eBay online but on cellphones too, thanks to the eBay app. According to eBay, shoppers are using their cellphones to make more purchases this holiday season, with 1.5 million products sold in the past several weeks – that’s three times the number for the [...]
Continue reading →If you’re thinking of heading out to eBay to purchase perfumes for your special someone this holiday season, better think again. A French court has ordered popular online auction site eBay to pay 1.7 million euros (2.5 million dollars) to luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH). The fine was for selling unauthorized perfumes. [...]
Continue reading →BlackBerry owners need not go to eBay’s website to find great deals now that an app for the famous auction Web site is available. Co-developed by eBay and RIM, the app is available for U.S. and Canada auctioneers. It allows users to search, watch, bid and buy items in eBay and even allows payments via [...]
Continue reading →On Sunday, popular online auction site eBay confirmed that search outages, including a messed up search result, over the weekend resulted from a “technical issue”. The site was quickly restored but the company still wants to take caution. “We are happy to report that critical search functionality was restored overnight on Saturday and we are [...]
Continue reading →It’s a done deal. Shortly after announcing the plan in September , eBay has finally let go of Skype which they acquired in 2005. The famous online auction site completed the sale of the Internet telephony service for $1.9 billion and an “I Owe You” note for a further $125 million. The investors, owning 70 [...]
Continue reading →Several readers report that some auctions of the house party kits have been cancelled in eBay. The kits, along with other stuff, contain a Steve Ballmer “signature edition” of Windows 7 Ultimate. If you’re not sure what this “signature edition” is, it’s just the same as other Windows 7 Ultimate, but its packaging looks waaay [...]
Continue reading →Yup, after paying a HUGE amount for the Internet phone company, EBay Inc. is now letting go of their extravagant purchase. The famous online auction company announced Tuesday that they will be keeping 35% of Skype while 65% will be sold to a group of private investors. This will likely be finalized later this year. [...]
Continue reading →And mind you, they’re not planning to auction off used cars only. General Motors Corp. has said that they plan to experiment with auctioning their news cars on eBay and if you’ve been living in a rock for at least the last decade, eBay is an online shopping and auction site that millions that probably [...]
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