Meg Whitman For Governor of California, Ex-eBay CEO Running

Meg Whitman formally announced today (Tuesday) that she is running for the Republican nomination for 2010 California gubernatorial race. The former eBay CEO decided to run for California governor, promising to cut...

Cathy Maples Wins Dinner With Palin For $63,500

Alabama resident Cathy Maples had the winning bid in eBay's auction for a dinner with Sarah and Todd Palin. Maples, 53, owns a defense contracting company and is a big fan of Palin. She has met the ex-Governor at least twice before - once in North Carolina during a...

Ebay Auctions Dinner With Sarah Palin

Ebay is auctioning a dinner for five with Sarah Palin starting at $25,000. Proceeds going to "Ride 2 Recovery", a charity which provides wounded veterans with bicycles and organized rides. The auctions opens on Tuesday, September 15, and lasts for ten days. Sarah Palin's...

Sale Of Crypt Above Marilyn Monroe Falls Through on eBay

The crypt above that of Marilyn Monroe went for sale on eBay on August 18, reaching $4.6 million in bids, but today it turned out that the highest bidder from Japan was unable to pay the required sum of money. The...

GM to Sell Cars on eBay

General Motors Co. announced today that they will allow buyers to purchase cars from California Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Pontiac dealers through the eBay online marketplace. Two months after GM filed for...

Skype Shutdown Threat over Joltid Licensing

Skype could possibly get shut down over a licensing dispute with Joltid, which developed Skype many years ago. When eBay bought Skype for $3.1 billion in 2005, it did not buy a core element of the underlying...

Canadian eBay Sellers Forced to Pay Taxes

Canadians selling items on eBay will be forced to pay taxes on any sales after the government launched an investigation into online sellers. The Canada Revenue Agency was provided with the names of eBay sellers and their contact information and are matching it up to their...

Topps yanks Madoff cards before they hit shelves

This years Topps Allen & Ginter Baseball cards have already hit store shelves, minus the highly anticipated rookie card of fraudster Bernie Madoff. Yeah, that's right!! The modern day Charlies Ponzi,...

Devata For Sale: The Profaning Of Hindu Culture On Ebay

Several merchants n the popular auction site Ebay recently decided that Hindu deities would be the next Djinn and many followed suit. This is unfortunate, because just like the Ebay Djinn (which turned thousands of years of Islamic culture on it's head), the faux Devatas are...

Tech titans plan to save the planet

president of eTech entrepeneurs Larry Brillant of Google and Jeffrey Skoll founding president of eBay are bringing their money and expertise to bear to fight what they see as urgent threats to the planet.They are putting their money where their mouths are with a start up...

EBay, Skype, Goldman, Morals And Principles

EBay is finally making plans to unwind itself from Meg Whitman’s appalling and astronomically expensive decision to acquire Skype. At the time of the acquisition’s announcements, the financial media, while showing surprise, did little to clarify why such a transaction...

Ebay Seeks Skype IPO

Online trade giant Ebay is unloading Skype, the ubiquitious VOIP/chat client. Ebay is not selling Skype, but is, in a sense, auctioning parts of it off in an IPO (initial public offering) to take Skype public....

Naomi Campbell walks the runway for Mumbai attack victims

Supermodel Naomi Campbell, infamous for physically and verbally abusing her personnel on numerous occasions, is now fueling her unbridled energy into helping out a good cause.  Campbell walked the runway in...

The "Hope Diamond" Of Haunted Items Hits Five Grand On Ebay

An unusual blue antique ring has generated a massive amount of interest on the popular auction site Ebay, where as of this writing, the haunted gem has garnered over five thousand dollars. The seller claims the...

Obama Graces 'Savage Dragon' Comic Book Cover

From out of the "strange news" file comes word that a "Savage Dragon" comic book, the cover of which features a flag-waving President Barack Obama smacking terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, sold for $202.50 on...

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