Yesterday, eBay secured an important legal victory after New York District Judge Richard Sullivan ruled the online auction service actually did do enough to thwart the sale of counterfeit jewelry.
The battle between Tiffany and eBay started four years ago in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, and has ended with [...]

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eBay has won a major legal victory today, after a federal judge ruled that Tiffany was not able to prove the online auction company was responsible for the sale of counterfeit Tiffany jewelry on its Web site.
The 2004 lawsuit brought by Tiffany in U.S. District Court in New York and the ruling in eBay’s favor [...]

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eBay Australia has officially dropped its proposal to move to a PayPal only system in the country.
eBay’s decision comes after sellers expressed their anger last week at a conference held by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on the company’s plans to only accept PayPal on the site.
The new plan would have forced sellers [...]

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eBay users everywhere were pleased when the company gave up on making PayPal the only allowable payment option in Australia.  But Hitwise has taken a look at the company’s standing on that continent, underlining what was (and may still be) at stake within its borders.
eBay does pretty well as a part of Hitwise’s Shopping & [...]

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PayPal has revised its policy concerning international transactions under Section 4.3 of the PayPal users agreement that goes into effect July 9, 2008.
PayPal spokesman Michael Oldenburg told WebProNews that eBay was not requiring all international shippers to accept PayPal. The policy states that if eBay sellers accept PayPal, they are required to accept it for [...]

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With a new application framework entering open beta early next year, eBay is working to build a kind of ‘open’ market for both developers and vendors to earn money, as a key eBay developer told Techachino Tuesday.
A private beta of eBay’s Project Echo will commence in Q4 2008, limited to participation among five ISVs including [...]

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Acquisition rumors not that crazy

Companies generally don’t comment on rumor or speculation—that’s the blogosphere/news media’s job. The speculation du jour, which seems very likely born of non-buyer’s remorse, is that Microsoft is eyeing—or should eye—an acquisition of eBay or, at least, PayPal and/or Skype

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eBay is requiring global sellers to increasingly accept its PayPal payment service. In the U.S. eBay is forcing sellers who ship internationally to accept international PayPal transactions under Section 4.3 of the PayPal users agreement that goes into effect July 9, 2008.

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Skype’s not doing too badly these days. As it stands, though, Skype has little to do with eBay’s core business, and so it may get sold in the relatively near future.
“What we’re testing this year are the synergies,” said John Donahoe, eBay’s new CEO, to the Financial Times. “If the synergies are strong, [...]

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It’s hard to believe data about 2007 is still being released, but a new Hitwise report is interesting, nonetheless.  It seems that social networks and YouTube were quite popular last year, with related terms dominating a list of the top ten UK searches.
YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and a two-word version of YouTube (”you tube”) placed third, [...]

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