EBAY popularity and EBAY trends

I've been threatening to blog for several years now. I can't recall for how many years I've left the threat open, but hopefully you'll understand given the title of this piece, that I'm prone to senior moments. For the past two years I've been immersed in Internet Governance, an area I knew precious little about before being tossed into the deep end of the pool. Fortunately my previous employ...

More details are emerging in the case of a Silicon Valley software executive accused of using fake bar codes to buy massive amounts of Lego sets. Police allege Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old vice president of global software giant SAP, brought his own bar code stickers to Target stores in Mountain View, used them to cover up the real bar codes and purchased hundreds of boxes of the p...

TOP-Auktion bei eBay: Ersteigern Sie zum Kinostart-Start von „LOL – Laughing out Loud“ am 31. Mai eine Traum-Reise nach Thailand. Mitmachen & bieten!Foto: WENNMehr zum ThemaHochzeit von Bushido & Anna Maria Lagerblom - Mutter erklärt: Darum war Sarah Connor nicht daLondon-Reise - Tickets für das Hard Rock Calling FestivalMichelle bei „Lanz“ - So läuft es bei den Münteferings zu HauseKi...

Amid a debate about jobs, and I'm late to this, but Meg Whitman, a Mitt Romney backer and donor whose 2010 bid for California governor failed and is now the head of Hewlett-Packard, announced in the last two weeks that she has to cut 30,000 jobs at the company, with slots in high-growth China probably avoiding the axe. Whitman, one of Romney's national finance co-chairs and a major donor, won p...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash - sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist - and then asking the government for replacement cards....

Bittere Schlappe für Lindt & Sprüngli: Ihr goldener Schokohase ist zwar sehr berühmt - jedoch keine eigenständige Marke, wie der Europäische Gerichtshof jetzt entschied. Die Confiserie wollte sich mit der Klage gegen ein Plagiat wehren.Mehr zum ThemaEU-Gericht beendet jahrelangen Streit - Der goldene Lindt-Hase ist keine MarkeUnternehmer zu Recht besorgt - Die größten Gefahren für die deuts...

A pair of Queen Elizabeth II's (unauthenticated) 26-inch knickers from 1968 which are embroidered with an 'E' have been bought on eBay for the huge fee.

This morning at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2012, Chris Dixon, co-founder and partner at Founder’s Collective (and co-founder of SiteAdvisor and Hunch, acquired by McAfee and eBay, respectively), sat down with ZocDoc CEO Cyrus Massoumi to talk about ZocDoc's road to success. The company, for those unfamiliar, is a professional booking platform for doctors. Users go online to search, find and book a d...

redletterdave writes "With barcode scanning being so commonplace, nothing seemed out of the ordinary when Thomas Langenbach, the vice president of SAP, was found scanning boxes upon boxes of Lego toys before purchasing them. Little did anyone know, the 47-year-old Silicon Valley executive was actually engaged in a giant scam. Langenbach would visit several Target stores and cover the store's ba...

A pair of Queen Elizabeth II's (unauthenticated) 26-inch knickers from 1968 which are embroidered with an 'E' have been bought on eBay for the huge fee.

CAREY Mulligan’s Met Ball 2012 dress has sold for $2,950 on eBay. The 26-year-old ‘Shame’ actress auctioned off her custom Prada dress after wearing it on the red carpet to the Costume Institute Gala held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier this month. After being listed for sale two days later, the designer frock went to the highest bidder when the auction ...

Queen Elizabeth's dirty, old undies will have a new home ... after a mystery panty raider snatched 'em up at an Internet auction for $18k. The knickers had been placed on eBay by the estate of the late "Baron" Joseph de Bicske Dobronyi ... who had…

An eBay auction bid of £150,000 for an Olympic torch carried in Cornwall was a hoax, the seller says.

Well this is rich. NBC Bay Area reports that Thomas Langenbach, identified as a VP at SAP's Palo Alto Integration and Certification Center, has been charged with four felony counts of burglary over ill-gotten LEGOs. Authorities say the German software engineer generated his own fake bar codes, printed stickers with them, then slapped those cheaper [...]

London (SID) - Olympia-Fackel zu verkaufen: Einige der Träger der Olympischen Flamme haben ihre Fackel beim Internet-Auktionshaus eBay zur Versteigerung angeboten. Offerten von bis zu 200.000 Euro so...

Olympia-Fackel zu verkaufen: Einige der Träger der Olympischen Flamme haben ihre Fackel beim Internet-Auktionshaus eBay zur Versteigerung angeboten.

Heralded as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a number of torch bearers have already taken to the internet auction site to sell their piece of history.

Olympic torchbearers have cashed in on their once-in-a-lifetime privilege by selling their torches on eBay.

Some runners put their torch up for sale even before they had carried the flame, offering to post them to the highest bidder immediately after their leg of the event.

One of the first participants in the London Olympic relay looked set to make a quick profit on Saturday after a torch and uniform went up for sale on auction website eBay within hours of the 70-day event starting.

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…

Seriously, you purchase this converted DC-3 from eBay for $150,000, slap on some new lettering, maybe put a speaker on the roof that makes shuttle sounds when you leave a red light, and sell deliciously-filled thin pancakes out of the back. People will be fighting to give you their money. More »

Ich würde behaupten, dass ein Buch ein besseres Produkt ist, als eine PDF. Evtl kann FF dem filesharing insofern gelassen gegenüberstehen, als das es sich entweder um Leute handelt die sich das Buch eh nicht leisten können, oder um Leute, die erstmal reinlesen wollen und dann bei Gefallen das Buch kaufen. CDs und DVDs sind echt ne andere Baustelle, da ist eine DRM-freie Datei einfach hundert...

eBay user claims to be selling a piece of lunar history, brought back from Neil Armstrong himself — but is it real?

Oh no, you didn't!

EBay Inc, the world's largest online marketplace, wants to introduce its global payment service PayPal into China.

Mit Mage+ hat die Entwickler-Community um Magento einen Fork des verbreiteten Shop-Systems veröffentlicht. Man reagiert damit auch auf die Unruhe nach der Übernahme durch eBay und erhofft sich mehr Planungssicherheit.

At a recent conference in Dublin, the world’s biggest online vendors, including Amazon, Facebook, Google and eBay, gathered to hear about the latest technologies being employed to outsmart online fraudsters

Internet auction giant eBay and mobile phone operator Softbank said Wednesday they were teaming up to bring the US firm's PayPal online billing system to Japan for the first time.

TOKYO, May 9 (Reuters) - Softbank Corp said on Wednesday that it and eBay Inc unit PayPal will form a joint venture to expand Japan's e-payments market by targeting users of Apple Inc's iPhone.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc are developing new Web search engines to better compete against Amazon.com Inc in the fast-growing e-commerce market.

Am Rand einer Wahlkampfveranstaltung der CDU in Nordrhein-Westfalen hatte auch er einen besonderen Auftritt: Dirk Fricke. Vor wenigen Tagen hat er auf Ebay einen VW-Golf ersteigert, der früher einmal Bundeskanzlerin Merkel gehörte.

An in-house thief at the US National Archives is jailed after a radio recording enthusiast saw his own donated Babe Ruth interview for sale on eBay.

La Cour de cassation a partiellement annulé jeudi une décision de cour d'appel ayant condamné le site eBay pour mise en vente de produits contrefaits du groupe LVMH. Elle a estimé que la cour d'appel n'avait pas justifié de sa compétence pour juger des faits touchant le site américain d'eBay mais...

La chambre commerciale de la Cour de cassation a annulé une partie de la condamnation du site de vente aux enchères eBay pour contrefaçon de produits LVMH et décidé que le dossier serait rejugé par la cour d'appel de Paris.histoires liéesCanal+ France: le PDG de Lagardère privilégie une introduction en BourseWall Street ouvre en hausseRenault et Nissan vont prendre le contrôle du russe Avtovaz,...

THE man who successfully bid on eBay for singer Cher's Key to the City of Adelaide is now refusing to pay for the item.

Consumers may be finding more deals on eBay these days, but that doesn't mean investors should buy the stock now.

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Oops!!! Cher became one of the very few people in the world that managed to piss off an entire city. No, she didn't blast Believe from the town square for 48 hours on repeat. (Who wouldn't love that?!) The pop legend did something on par much worse: she sold the key to their city!! Friday, [...]

EBay Inc is stepping up investment in India to boost its share of a market dominated by domestic players such as Flipkart and fend off encroachment from arch-rival Amazon.com.

Auf Taobao, dem chinesischen Ebay, wird täglich von gefälschten Markenturnschuhen über Haushaltsgeräte bis hin zu Bandwürmern zu Diätzwecken alles Denkbare verhökert. Seit kurzem gehören auch Termine beim deutschen Generalkonsulat in Shanghai dazu.

Ella dice que ha perdido las llaves de la ciudad de Adelaida, en el sur de Australia, que las autoridades le concedieron en un homenaje. Pero lo cierto es que han aparecido en una subasta on line en eBay y un comprador ha desembolsado 50.000 euritos por ellas. Ni que decir tiene que el alcalde se ha mostrado indignado y ha reprochado el gesto a la cantante y actriz, que podría haberlas devuelto...

US singer Cher is "upset" and trying to get to the bottom of why a key to the city of Adelaide she was given in 1990 ended up on eBay, selling Thursday for nearly $100 000.

Cher apologises after her memorial 'key to the city of Adelaide' ends up being sold on eBay.

PayPal, the online payment unit of eBay, is making a big push into the real world and its initial forays could lead to a face-off with highly valued startup Square.

Strong first-quarter results demonstrate why PayPal may be the e-commerce company's best friend.

Folks, things going on in the pre-market: Shares of eBay (EBAY) are among the top gainers in tech, rising $3.21, or almost 9%, at $39.08, and higher than 10% at one point, after the company last night beat fiscal Q2 estimates and offered a better-than-expected year view, largely on strength from its PayPal unit. The [...]

Zum Handelsstart kann der Leitindex zumindest kleine Gewinne einheimsen. Gute Quartalszahlen von Ebay und Amex heben die Laune. Allerdings dürften Anleger eine Anleiheauktion des Euro-Krisenlandes Spanien abwarten.

Investoren positionieren sich vor der Versteigerung spanischer Staatsanleihen am Vormittag. Bis dahin dürften positive Ergebnisse von Ebay und American Express die Kurse stützen.

Das erste Quartal war für den Internetkonzern ein voller Erfolg. Besonders die Tochter PayPal sorgt dafür, dass die Gewinne sprudeln. Die Investoren reagieren erfreut.

Online marketplace stakes ground in the race to lead the mobile payments market, with its PayPal arm moving to ‘define the future of money’

EBAY says its first-quarter net income grew 20 per cent thanks to higher revenue from its PayPal business and e-commerce websites.

EBay has revealed better-than-expected rises in quarterly sales and profit, driven by growth in its Marketplace and PayPal businesses.

NEW YORK (AP) -- EBay's first-quarter net income grew 20 percent thanks to higher revenue from its PayPal business and brisk sales at its e-commerce websites. The results beat Wall Street's expectations and investors sent the company's stock higher in after-hours trading....

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is on the Walt Disney (DIS) board. Clara Shih recently joined the board of Starbucks (SBUX). The founder-CEO of hot startup Hearsay Social replaced Sandberg, who quit her directorship to focus on Facebook's pending IPO. Meanwhile, Facebook's female execs are much-desired recruits. Emily White, who directs mobile partnerships for the social-media behemoth, joined the...

Mise en ligne le 5 avril dernier par un Berlinois, la "Volkswagen":http://kleinanzeigen.ebay.de/anzeigen/s-anzeige/berlin/autos/volkswagen/u328209…

HAPLESS duo were trying to move their new pride and joy just half a mile when hit rocks

(Reuters) - Microsoft trumped Amazon, eBay and other tech giants with its more than $1 billion purchase of the majority of AOL Inc's patent trove.

If you are a collector of Bubba Watson, the doors are now wide open.

"Histórico VW Golf de la doctora Angela Merkel, nuestra canciller", dice el reclamo con el que se vende el coche en la página de subastas eBay, según informa la edición online del semanario alemán 'Der Spiegel'.

Looking for a used car? New York state's got more than 450 for sale on its new eBay page launched Tuesday.

Mercadopago, herramienta de pago en línea del sitio latinoamericano de comercio electrónico MercadoLibre, que es socio de eBay, buscará este año incentivar su adopción como herramienta de pago en otro...

David Marcus, behind new PayPal dongle, came to eBay in 2011when it bought his mobile payment company Zong

Mercadopago, the online payment tool of Latin American e-commerce site MercadoLibre, which is a partner of eBay, will seek to try to push adoption of Mercadopago as a payment tool on other commercial ...

Is this what Paula Abdul's resorted to after getting fired from The X Factor?!?

ONLINE auction site eBay has reported a 45 per cent sales surge among its 2000 largest Australian sellers.

Website eBay said on Monday it was blocking worldwide online sales of Sorbitol, in the wake of the death a woman in Italy after she was reportedly administered the artificial sweetener as part a test for food allergies.

Here's an interesting gimmick: AutoNation is selling 25 cars on eBay at half off as a way of promoting presence on the auction site. The flash ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the payments service owned by eBay Inc, jumped into the nascent mobile payments arena on Thursday with a new device that helps businesses accept credit and debit cards via mobile devices, taking on early-moving start-up Square Inc.

Le site français comparable à eBay a annoncé sa fermeture prochaine. Les difficultés financières rencontrées par le groupe seraient à l'origine de cette déc...lire la suite

Wien (OTS) - - Verkaufen lohnt sich: Vergessene Schätze sind oft mehr wert als man denkt - Gebrauchtes Ikea Sofa bringt durchschnittlich 339 Euro - Angebotsgebühr entfällt noch bis Ende April Die Eiseskälte ist vorbei und der Frühling hält Einzug: Höchste Zeit, die eigenen vier ...

Saddam memorabilia is showing up in auction houses and eBay. But be careful: That sword from the Iraqi dictator probably isn't authentic.

Pese a no haber sido presentada de forma oficial, la supuesta equipación puede adquirirse a través de la página de subastas EBay.

Die Onlinehandelsplattform eBay ändert im Sommer ihre Zahlungsabwicklung. Für Käufer bedeutet das einen größeren Schutz, private Verkäufer müssen allerdings länger auf ihr Geld warten, wie eine eBay-Sprecherin am Dienstag sagte.

Das Online-Auktionshaus eBay ändert im Sommer seine Zahlungsabwicklung. Für Käufer bedeutet das einen größeren Schutz, private Verkäufer müssen allerdings länger auf ihr Geld warten, wie eine eBay-Sprecherin am Dienstag sagte. Denn in Zukunft zahlen Käufer den Preis für den von ihnen erworbenen Artikel an eBay und nicht mehr an den Verkäufer. Die Online-Plattform leitet das Geld dann an den Ver...

How countries stack up against global corporations.

Für Firmen zählen bei Facebook nur die "Likes". Wer nicht genug Fans hat, kann sie sich bei Ebay ersteigern. Auch Freundschaften gehen über den virtuellen Ladentisch. mehr...

Adam Levine and his creature of elegance girlfriend Anne V were both on Howard Stern yesterday morning and in between talking about whether or not Snookitina is chunkalicious, he educated the children on his fool-proof birth control method. Adam obviously gets his birth control method tips from drunk frat boys, high school douchebags and coked-up investment bankers, ...

Für umgerechnet 750 000 Euro sollte das ehemalige Auto von Barack Obama bei Ebay den Besitzer wechseln. Die Verkäuferin war optimistisch, doch niemand wollte den Chrysler 300 haben.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The first time Steve Weatherford rolled through the New York Giants locker room with a laundry cart, collecting castoff tennis shoes and cleats, he made sure to tell teammates he wasn't selling their stuff on eBay....

La Chrysler 300C conduite par le président des États-Unis lorsqu'il était sénateur de l'Illinois rejoint le palmarès des ventes insolites avec la Peugeot 504 de Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad ou la Golf de Benoît XVI.

Das Ganze hat etwas von Aschenputtel: Die australische Regierungschefin Julia Gillard wird von Aboriginies bedrängt, verliert einen Schuh. Der landet kurz darauf bei Ebay. Verkauft wird er trotzdem nicht.

David Beckham has decided to sell his limited edition black Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe on internet bidding site eBay.

A Chrysler 300C once leased by President Barack Obama is for sale on eBay with the eye-popping "opening bid" of $1 million.

The results exceeded expectations, and revenue projections for the year are on course.

EBAY reportS its net income grew sharply in the fourth quarter, helped by a gain from the sale of its remaining investment in Skype. 

Solid fourth-quarter results boosted by sale of remaining investment in Skype

Le groupe de distribution en ligne eBay a publié mercredi un bénéfice annuel en hausse de 79% à 3,23 milliards de dollars, porté par un bénéfice plus que tripl&...lire la suite

LONDON (Reuters) - A shaving company has come to the rescue of a British athlete who put himself up for auction on eBay to secure sponsorship for the London Olympics only to find the winning bidder was a hoax. Top sprinter James Ellington thought he had raised 32,550 pounds ($50,000) through the website after receiving 71 bids from 45 interested parties in an auction that closed in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A shaving company has come to the rescue of a British athlete who put himself up for auction on eBay to secure sponsorship for the London Olympics only to find the winning bidder was a hoax. Top sprinter James Ellington thought he had raised 32,550 pounds ($50,000) through the website after receiving 71 bids from 45 interested parties in an auction that closed in ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A shaving company has come to the rescue of a British athlete who put himself up for auction on eBay to secure sponsorship for the London Olympics only to find the winning bidder was a hoax.

A British sprinter who offered himself for sponsorship via an online eBay auction has finally secured a deal to pursue his Olympic dreams. James Ellington had been injured.

Ein frustrierter Anhänger vom italienischen Rekordmeister Juventus Turin nahm den Verkauf eines Spielers seines Teams in die eigene Hand. Er setzte Amauri einfach bei Ebay rein.

A frustrated Bianconeri supporter has decided to take matters into his own hands by trying to offload the striker to the highest bidder

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- When he takes over as Yahoo's CEO next week, Scott Thompson will be under more intense scrutiny than he faced the past three years while crafting PayPal's online payments service into one of the crown jewels in eBay Inc.'s operations....

Yahoo named PayPal President Scott Thompson as its chief executive, hoping the well-regarded Internet technology and e-commerce expert will replicate his success at eBay Inc and turn around the struggling company.

MAN'S "dream idea" to batter and pan-fry a sketch by revered Australian artist and sell on eBay netted him $113.61.

I ran back and forth between the Sabbath meal and the bidding on eBay for a ladle once owned by Saddam Hussein.

Ebay said today it bought BillSafe, a purchase and invoicing technology provider with clients in Germany, and will combine it with its PayPal online payments service, in a move to strengthen its e-commerce capabilities in Northern Europe.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A nude charcoal drawing of Lady Gaga by singer Tony Bennett went up for auction on Ebay this week, with all proceeds going to both singers' charities.

Tony Bennett's nude sketch of Lady Gaga made during an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot for Vanity Fair is up for auction Bennett who is a painter as well as a singer made the drawing at Leibovitz's urging  The sketch is up for sale at eBay Celebrity with proceeds to benefit the...

James Ellington, the British sprinter Sportsmail revealed was auctioning himself to sponsors on eBay, reached his £30,000 target on Wednesday night - if he is not the victim of an internet jape.

Mobile shopping hit its stride on Thanksgiving Day, according to preliminary data released by eBay today.

Kühtai (TP/OTS) - Das Wettbieten hat begonnen: Bis zum 30. November können Rennbegeisterte, die zusätzlich gerne etwas Gutes tun wollen, bei eBay Stars & Charity einen Platz in einem Prominententeam bei RACE-4-KIDS in Kühtai ersteigern. Bereits seit 2008 und zum mittlerweile sechsten Mal ...

'Pych's' Corbin Bernsen has one of the world's biggest collections of snow globes.

Leading tech companies including Google and eBay are stepping up efforts to block a bill in Congress that Hollywood studios say would clamp down on foreign websites selling pirated movies and other goods.

Vintage-Shopping? Ebay? Das war gestern. Anstatt Gebrauchtes zu kaufen, kann man es neuerdings in der Givebox tauschen.

Wer A sagt, muss auch B sagen. Beim Verkauf eines Autos über Ebay muss der Verkäufer die Auktion bis zum Ende durchziehen. Auch dann, wenn er zwischenzeitlich auf anderem Wege ein besseres Angebot erhält.

In August we told you about the arrest of Danny Goncalves, the man accused of stealing P2P.com and selling it on Ebay for six figures. This evening we are happy to report that Goncalves has been indicted by New Jersey's Attorney General - the first known instance of a domain thief being indicted on criminal charges.