The internet auction site eBay has reported a big jump in its quarterly profits.
Problem: That's the same name as a private California firm with an Ebay-like Internet auction site in Europe.
However, having become so disheartened with Cardiff , the internet auction has gone some way to restoring his faith in football.
The latest reports have Skype in talks with Internet auction giant eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ).
In the U.S., where over 3, 000 Internet auction postings were taken down in July, Microsoft recently announced five lawsuits and two settlements.
Recently-released movies and computer games were then sold on via an internet auction site as "genuine goods" and with prices slightly lower than shops.
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Two such shops - one bricks, mortar and all, the other, a lease - are up for grabs on the internet auction auction site eBay.
The SIIA white paper says software sellers manipulate the rules of Internet auction sites to obtain e-mail addresses of bidders on software, creating a direct-marketing channel.
This week she announced that her bureau is aggregating Internet auction fraud complaints from state officials, consumer groups and online auctions such as eBay (EBAY) into a massive database for exclusive use by law enforcement.
The same fate awaits most of the other common artefacts of the sort that are sometimes found on Internet-auction sites.
The Internet-based auction site purchased two online classifieds businesses and the online payment services company Bill Me Later.
As eBay had proved, the Internet could change the auction business dramatically.
To a large extent, a failure to provide reliable metrics has held back the growth of Internet search advertising because keyword auction prices are largely opaque.
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Critics think he and others trying to auction ballots on the Internet are making a moral mess of the voting process.
Priceline is hoping that it will be able to make a lot of money from licensing its novel auction idea to other Internet firms such as Yahoo!
The Internet allows them to buy at an auction for the first time.
Besides its main auction site, eBay also runs internet call service Skype and web payments service Paypal.
Much of the bidding at Thursday's auction happened remotely, by telephone and internet - but Jack Wang was so determined to buy the Nobel Prize medal that he flew in from California, and was prepared to offer double what he ended up paying, reports the BBC's Barbara Plett from New York.
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After this week, both Cisco, the dominant manufacturer of Internet routers, and eBay, the main online-auction house, may have to watch their backs.
Prior to the auction, the 9ft 1ins long boards already attracted internet bidders from as far afield as the United States, Europe and the Middle East.
With the enormous proliferation of museums, collectors, auction houses, galleries and the indispensable tool of the internet, market information is now available worldwide and has become increasingly transparent.
The FCC's auction of prime wireless spectrum could create new competition for broadband Internet.
But the bidder that's really shaking up the auction is none other than Google, the search engine company and Internet-advertising giant.
That rise is a natural outcome of Google's auction-based advertising market and doesn't require collusion between the two Internet giants.
There has been a great deal of discussion about the history of this car at the auction site, in the media, and on various discussion boards on the Internet.
Unlike standard Internet performance, which slows to a crawl during business hours due to heavy traffic, auction sites download more quickly during weekday business hours and are slowest in the evening.
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