10 Tips for Surviving Ebay - Online Auction

April 23rd, 2009 EBay wins approval for SKorean acquisitionSEOUL, South Korea — Ebay Inc. has won regulatory approval to acquire online marketplace Gmarket, South Korea's antitrust watchdog said Thursday.

May 6th, 2009 eBay to close Vancouver customer service facility SALT LAKE CITY — Online marketplace operator EBay Inc. said Tuesday it will close its Vancouver, Canada customer service facilities by Sept.

June 20th, 2006 Robert Knowlton, an avid eBay user, bought a pair of slippers from a very reputable dealer on eBay. Soon after he got an e-mail that looked like it was from the dealer where he bought the slippers.

May 30th, 2006 New York Post confirmed that Microsoft has been involved in top secret discussions to buy eBay. Apparently Microsoft wants to merge eBay into its MSN portal as part of its "war" against Google.

May 3rd, 2006 Input passed to the "phpbb_root_path" parameter in "auction/auction_common.php" isn't properly verified, before it is used to include files. This can be exploited to include arbitrary files from external and local resources.

November 21st, 2005 Rentacoder is where companies outsource their software projects. Long time back I dabbled with RentACoder, got 10 out 10 on all the projects and so I still retain a high ranking and often get invited to do projects.

April 22nd, 2009 eBay 1st-qtr profit, sales fall on weak economy NEW YORK — EBay Inc. said Wednesday the weak economy led to lower earnings and revenue for the second consecutive quarter, but the online marketplace operator's results still beat analysts' expectations.

October 24th, 2005 Dutch prosecutors last month arrested three young men for creating and operating a botnet allegedly used to extort a U.S. company, to steal PayPal and eBay accounts, and to install adware and spyware.

April 4th, 2008 Nobody is a happier loser than Google when it lost the auction to win the highly coveted premium wireless spectrum to Verizon. The premium wireless spectrum (C block) would have cost Google $4.7 billion, inadvertently thrusting the company into the wireless business and could have sent Google’s shares even lower.

May 7th, 2007 Dean asked me: Hello, im 21 looking to build a website for the first time. I've been looking into adsense and have been interested for a while.

April 24th, 2005 Reuters reports that some joker sold Indian Prime Minister's house on Ebay to an American business man! And I thought selling the Brooklyn bridge was a myth! The businessman forked out 35 million rupees ($802,600) for the house that was up for sale on a Web site as a "huge sprawling mansion in the heart of Lutyen's Delhi with 24x7 running water and electricity", the ‘Hindustan Times’ said. He soon received the title deed for the house and arrived in the Indian capital late in March to take possession of the house for an office he planned to set up only to discover he had been cheated.

February 15th, 2008 Interesting articles and announcements emailed to me - 1. Compilation of BlackBerry Tips, Guides & Resources - link.

June 30th, 2007 A UAE based site (Souq.com) is auctioning blank sheets of original watermarked 5 Rs Indian notes. The current bid is 79 AED.

June 30th, 2005 Assorted List of Productivity Boosters for Firefox users (without plugins). These tips are for everyone.

August 29th, 2006 Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is earmarking Y300 million in its 2007 budget to produce what the Asahi Shimbun terms a lie-detector for online information. It would be an automated fact-checker that draws on related information to spot how likely something is to be a load of bull.