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Online auction leader eBay Inc warned in an annual report on Friday that it faces difficulty getting former customers to return, adding to the normal challenge of attracting new users to its sites.

EBay Inc and MercExchange LLC have settled a long-running patent lawsuit, said eBay on Thursday, ending a fight that prompted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

Software maker Adobe Systems launched new software to make it easier for programmers to build applications that work online and offline.

EBay Inc. said on Tuesday it will reduce the fees it charges sellers to list their goods online by about 50 percent in an effort to retain and attract more sellers while improving customer service.

A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.

Buyers save billions of dollars each year bidding on eBay auctions, according to a new study that quantifies the benefits online consumers enjoy over and above what is derived by sellers, or eBay itself.

EBay Inc. Chief Executive Officer is set to step down from the company after serving for 10 years at the online auctioneer.

A Canadian man who said he sold his 15-year-old son's prized video game, a Christmas gift, on eBay after catching him smoking marijuana has sparked an online debate on who is wrong -- father or son.

EBay Inc and Yahoo Japan will link up their auction sites to make cross-border bidding easier, in a deal that gives U.S. auction titan eBay another chance to woo lucrative Japanese consumers.

Technology stocks rallied early Wednesday after the broader market gained and hopes for a Fed interest -rate cut sparked.

A new website wants to pay you $10 for using your likeness for a week to promote a charity of your choice.

Google Inc's inroads into China relies on it linking up with local partners, navigating draconian regulations and understanding Chinese tastes to make it in one of the world's fastest-growing and lucrative Internet markets.

PayPal, the payments service arm of online auction leader eBay Inc, is set to release on Tuesday a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites that don't accept PayPal directly.

StumbleUpon, a fast rising Web search site bought by eBay Inc in May, is moving beyond automated Web discovery to offer a novel way to see what friends find useful or interesting on the Web.

EBay Inc said on Wednesday it had a strong quarterly performance in auctions, masked by a big net loss due to a write-down, and that its full-year earnings would be at the top end of expectations.The third-quarter net loss of $936 million, or 69 cents per diluted share, compared with a year-ago profit of $281 million, or 20 cents per diluted share. The loss stemmed from a $1.39 billion write-down on eBay's takeover of Internet phone service Skype.

EBay Inc customers who park extra cash in a nearly $1 billion PayPal money market fund are exposed to the same type of assets targeted for an emergency bailout by the largest U.S. banks, regulatory filings show.

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of Internet telecoms company Skype, said on Tuesday he agreed the original valuation put on the company by purchaser eBay was too high.

Yahoo Inc, is working with auction leader eBay Inc and its PayPal payments unit to block fake e-mails to users purporting to be from eBay and PayPal, hoping to spur on an industry that has been slow to fight the scourge of so-called phishing attacks.

EBay Inc said on Monday that Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder and chief executive of its Internet telephony unit Skype, has stepped down.

L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics group, has launched legal action against eBay, alleging the online auctioneer does not do enough to combat the sale of counterfeits, the company said on Monday.

Shares of Apple Inc fell 4 percent on Tuesday after AT&T Inc issued initial subscriber numbers for customers of Apple's iPhone that were below analyst estimates.

Around one in eight British shoppers has bought a counterfeit watch, handbag or other product in the last year as it becomes more socially acceptable, a study by lawyers Davenport Lyons and Ledbury Research found.

EBay Inc. on Wednesday posted a 50 percent rise in net profit on strength in its core auction and payments businesses, but left its 2007 outlook unchanged, defying Wall Street's hopes for a boost.

Shares of online auctioneer Ebay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) rose over 3 percent in Tuesday trading after a Wall Street analyst boosted the company’s revenue and earnings outlook for the firm’s first quarter.

Online auction firm eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) is shutting down its main Chinese web site and is launching a joint venture with a local partner, marking a strategic shift as the U.S. company tries to penetrate China's market.

Online visits to the Holiday eShopping Index grew 20 percent year-over-year last week, with eBay, Amazon and Wal-Mart leading other online shopping destinations new analysis shows.

Skype, the Internet communications division of Ebay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY), announced two key personnel changes Friday.

Online retail traffic is up 6.2 percent for the two weeks ending November 11, compared to the same period in 2005, with popular online shopping site Amazon.com attracting the largest number of website hits, according to a new report released on Tuesday.