A North Carolina woman has been found guilty of wire fraud after authorities found out she exploited a glitch on home shopping site QVC.com.
According to the charges, 33-year-old Quantina Moore-Perry ordered a total of more than 1800 items from the online store from March 2005 and November 2005, but did not pay for them. She [...]
Car collectors with at least 35,000 British pounds (US$71,800; €49,900) to spare now have a chance to own a limousine reportedly used by Pol Pot, the late chief of Cambodia’s notorious Khmer Rouge.
“For sale — one classic 1973 Mercedes Benz stretch limousine … previously used by one infamous owner Pol Pot, who led the Khmer [...]
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Video Professor — the leader in comprehensive, self-paced computer software tutorials — will offer a three-lesson Protect Yourself Online: Viruses, Scams and Social Networking tutorial to teach people how to protect themselves, their loved ones and their computers from identity thieves, scammers and viruses.
Millions of kids create MySpace(R) profiles that make them susceptible to [...]
Press Release – AuctionShadow.com announces today the pairing of two free and unique services to help eBay shoppers search aggressively and bid securely. AuctionShadow’s “ShadowSearch” is an eBay search tool which uses other bidders’ eBay IDs as search terms to improve results and be competitive. “Security Services” is a suite of safety checks which look [...]
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Growth in Sales Margins Are Being Realized as a Result of Successfully Purchasing and Re-Selling Collectible Assets at a Significant Profit
Zaldiva(TM), Inc. (OTCBB: ZLDV) (XETRA: UZ8) (FRANKFURT: UZ8), a specialty and online retailer of new and vintage Pop Culture collectibles, comic books and memorabilia, stated today that its new eBay and Internet Auction Drop-off [...]
The internet may not be completely lawless, but it does facilitate infringement of intellectual property laws on an unprecedented scale — and it’s not just teenagers downloading songs in their bedrooms who pose a problem. Businesses seeking to protect trademarks and patents are also facing huge challenges.
How do you stop infringement when it is occurring [...]
Internet sports broadcaster JumpTV (TSX:JTV) has appointed former eBay Canada general manager Jordan Banks as its new chief executive, effective Nov. 12.
At that time, current chairman and CEO Scott Paterson will become executive chairman, the Toronto company said Monday.
“Jordan is one of Canada’s leading Internet executives, having experienced tremendous success over the past decade leading [...]
A new feature called eBay Neighborhoods has been launched on eBay.com by online auction site eBay Inc (Nasdaq:EBAY), extending the ability of its community members to connect through commerce.
eBay said eBay Neighborhoods provides a collection of micro-communities centred around common interests, encouraging eBay community members to share, interact and trade with each other in a [...]
A malicious hacker broke into an eBay Inc. server on Friday and temporarily suspended the accounts of a “very small” number of members, the company said.
“We were able to block the fraudster quickly before any permanent damage had been done. At no point did the fraudster get any access to financial information or other sensitive [...]
eBay is expanding its activity in Israel by deepening its joint activity with Shopping.com and opening a development center. Shopping.com CEO Joshua Silverman says that the new center will develop eBay’s sorting and cataloguing technologies. He is visiting Israel for the annual meeting of Shopping.com’s websites worldwide.
“Overnight, the auction giant has taken down all listings that contained JAJAH Buttons that auction holders had put up since the widgets launched,†reports Amy-Mae Elliott of the Pocket-lint site.
Yahoo and eBay are joining forces to block phishing messages that specifically target PayPal users.
EBay and its PayPal subsidiary will use Yahoo’s DomainKeys technology to force email senders to prove who they are.
DomainKeys works by verifying the domain of each email sender and the integrity of the messages sent.
Yahoo claims that the system is designed [...]
eBay Inc said it has acquired Germany-based Afterbuy.com, which enables professional trading on eBay’s German Web site and other online marketplaces.
Afterbuy.com, which is operated by ViA-Online GmbH and supplies auction management software, will continue to operate under its current brand name, eBay said.
An eBay executive warned Wednesday that fewer small businesses would sell products through the Web auctioneer, and elsewhere online, without a permanent ban on Internet access taxes.
Congress first imposed a moratorium on taxing Internet access — which bars state and local governments from taxing the connection to basic Internet content — in 1998. Since then, [...]
Online auction leader EBay Inc, on Tuesday said that following recent toy recalls, it will seek to stop the resale of recalled items that are inadvertently listed by sellers on its Website.
The company is working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on the matter, it said in a statement. EBay is placing hyperlinks to [...]
