It seems the several months leading towards the end of 2011 were some good one's for the World's largest online auction marketplace, eBay. The company reported higher earnings and net income rose quite significantly while being out ...
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As a person who basically routes their entire life through the internet- professional, personal, lifestyle- one of the things that gets me agitated about the whole SOPA brouhaha is how little the average web user is concerned ...
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Online auction site eBay announced the acquisition of recommendation startup Hunch on Monday for an estimated cost of $80 million (Acquisition pricing has not been revealed at this time).
Launched in 2008 the company will retain their 50-person ...
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Ecommerce giant eBay Inc. released its third quarter earnings report today, boasting a 13% increase in profits over the last quarter, and a 32% increase in profits when compared to the same quarter in 2010.
The company reported ...
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Has Ice Cream Sandwich, Google's latest Android update, been leaked? The video below, sent by an anonymous reader to Engadget, seems to suggest it has.
The story of how Engadget's tipster got the update is pretty odd - ...
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Well it's official, not only has Meg Whitman been hired by the HP board to replace ousted Léo Apotheker; who has been on the job for less than a year and will apparently walk away from the ...
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A Civil War-era photograph of Nicolas Cage has surfaced on eBay, and there is only one logical explanation... he's a vampire.
The photo, which is being sold by a man from Tennessee for an asking price of $1 ...
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If you love going to outlet stores in the US, this latest offering from eBay is for you. The online auction site has launched Fashion Outlet, a virtual outlet mall in the US, allowing shoppers anytime to ...
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An "exceedingly rare" handwritten letter from the late author J.D. Salinger has hit Ebay with a $50,000 'Buy It Now' price tag.
The high price is even more unusual because of the length of the note - it contains ...
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Well, it will work year round, but it's here in time for Christmas.
If you're one of those people that uses apps like coupon aggregators to shop in a more informed fashion, a new Amazon app might interest ...
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See that keyboard up there?
Apparently it's a very rare IBM M15 'split' ergonomic keyboard. Only a small number of them were made over a short span of time (1994 - 1995) where new ones sold for around ...
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Pikachu? He's pretty cute, that electric little scamp. Pikachunk? Uh, not so much.
These handmade figurines come from the twisted mind of eBayer eattoast2, who's currently selling them for around $30 a pop. They're appropriately known as Ugly ...
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The new Xbox 360 Slim? Thanks, but no thanks Microsoft. Not while there's some dude on eBay selling this Xbox 360 case, as signed by MC HAMMER himself. Oh yes:
And here's the auction text, that genuinely made ...
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This eBay bandit's feedback is unsurprisingly negative.
[via Buzzfeed]
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Rumors have been creeping around the internet that Apple is quietly limiting the number of iPads individual consumers can purchase.
As is often the case, the policy is nebulous and the accounts of iPad purchase banninations vary widely. ...
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I'm not even that into Halo, but please, people, let's stand back and admire the artistry in this stunning Xbox 360 casemod.
It features Halo protagonist Master Chief blasting a hole through the system with his battle rifle, ...
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If you're getting a sense of deja vu, let me explain. Only last month, I wrote about a mother who sold a copy of Stadium Events, a rare game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, for a cool ...
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Nintendo's foray into breakfast cereals wasn't quite as successful as, say, its effort at game consoles.
But at least the company gave it a shot. Back in the 1980s, the Japanese videogame giant attempted to build on the ...
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When a mother from Haw River, North Carolina recently dug out some of her kids' old toys from the basement to sell on Ebay, she wasn't expecting to rake in over $13,000 for a battered old Nintendo ...
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Super modder Ben Heck has created some of the most elegant looking and crazy gaming mods we've ever seen, now one of his modified systems, the PS3 Slim Laptop has been listed on eBay, and it can ...
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Some dude has microwaved his Xbox 360, thereby creating what he optimistically describes as "a piece of game system microwaving history."
I'm not sure game system microwaving history is especially rich, but whatever. This cooked console is now ...
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If you've been using just about any mobile platform other than a Blackberry you've had the option of an official eBay mobile application. Now the same functionality found for iPhone and Nokia (Symbian) devices is available for ...
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