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EBay buys payment firm for almost $1B, lays off over 1,000

EBay announced two acquisitions Monday, at the same time saying it will lay off over 1,000 staff worldwide and cut back on recruitment.

| News | Business | 10/06/08 at 10:35 am |


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Merchant group blasts eBay

A powerful and vocal group of large eBay merchants has blasted the e-commerce giant for changes it has implemented this year, saying they have done more harm than good.

| News | Internet | 10/02/08 at 8:44 pm |


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EBay's search engine malfunctions, omits products

A technical problem that kept an unknown number of products out of eBay's search engine index has been fixed, and the e-commerce giant plans to issue credits to affected merchants.

| News | Internet | 09/22/08 at 3:35 pm |


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Hitting it big on eBay: New extinct species, futuristic toilets

Richard Harrington, an officer in the UK's Royal Entomological Society, probably thought that chunk of amber with an insect trapped inside that he bid for on eBay would make a nice paperweight -- but he didn't expect that the dead critter would be a representative of a previously unknown species, one that would end up being named for him.

| News | Offbeat | 08/26/08 at 10:01 pm |


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