News tagged with online auctions
Study: The right strategy doesn't guarantee advantage in auctions, real estate or stock market
Who wouldn't pay a penny for a sports car? That's the mentality some popular online auctions take advantage of -- the opportunity to get an expensive item for very little money.
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eBay has unexpected, chilling effect on looting of antiquities, archaeologist finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Having worked for 25 years at fragile archaeological sites in Peru, UCLA archaeologist Charles "Chip" Stanish held his breath when the online auction house eBay launched more than a decade ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 04, 2009 |
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New online mechanism for electric vehicle charging
Researchers at the University of Southampton have designed a new pricing mechanism that could change the way in which electric vehicles are charged.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 05, 2011 |
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Major step ahead for cryptography
Imagine you could work out the answer to a question, without knowing what the question was. For example, suppose someone thinks of two numbers and then asks another person to work out their sum, without letting ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
May 26, 2010 |
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EBay 2Q profit rises 26 pct on PayPal, marketplace
(AP) -- EBay Inc. reported healthy second-quarter earnings Wednesday as more people transferred money through its PayPal payment service and shopped on its main website.
Jul 21, 2010 |
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eBay fined in France for selling upscale perfumes
(AP) -- Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy and ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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HP fires second CEO in 2 years; Whitman in charge
(AP) -- Hewlett-Packard has performed another extreme act of corporate remodeling, firing its CEO Leo Apotheker after just 11 months and replacing him with billionaire businesswoman and political aspirant ...
Sep 22, 2011 |
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eBay eyes investments in Japan and China: report
Online auction house eBay is on the look-out for investment targets in Japan and China, a report said Thursday, as it seeks to expand in fast-growing Asia.
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Rivals likely to reach for Google's 'Wallet'
With the announcement of "Google Wallet" the Internet giant became the first player to dash into a future where people use smartphones as credit cards, but rivals are expected to cut its lead short.
May 30, 2011 |
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eBay may use Skype money for acquisitions: CEO
EBay may use some of the $2.4 billion it will receive from the sale of its stake in Skype to make acquisitions, the chief executive of the online auction giant said in an interview published Monday.
May 23, 2011 |
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EBay profit falls on charges, results beat Street
EBay Inc.'s PayPal online payment service and marketplaces business grew swiftly during the second quarter, helping its results beat analyst expectations, although charges from its recent purchase of retail ...
Jul 20, 2011 |
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India slowly gets to grips with ecommerce
Vipul Modi is a busy high court lawyer in India's financial capital Mumbai. Like many people, he uses the Internet to buy rail and airline tickets as well as pay his utility bills.
May 16, 2010 |
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Five Dutch operators buy into 2.6 GHz band
Five mobile operators now own portions of the Netherlands' new 2.6 Gigahertz frequency band, which allows for super-fast broadband, the Dutch telecommunications agency announced Monday.
Apr 26, 2010 |
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China closed to outside Internet firms: eBay chief
The head of global online auction powerhouse eBay said that China has essentially put up a wall when it comes to non-Chinese Internet firms.
Oct 18, 2011 |
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PayPal opening doors to outside developers
PayPal plans to throw open the doors of its software platform to enable outside developers to build innovative tools using the online financial transaction service.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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