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Microsoft Corp. and eBay Inc. today announced they are partnering to offer eBay Daily Deals through a new Internet Explorer 8 Web Slice for the holidays.

As part of the settlement agreement, Joltid and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis will join the investor group, contributing Joltid software and making a significant capital investment in exchange for a 14 percent stake in Skype.

Skype today announced the selection of Net-Net® OS-Enterprise (OS-E) session border controllers from Acme Packet® (NASDAQ: APKT) for its Skype for SIP beta offering.

Focuses on a long-term commitment to energy efficiency, investments in renewable energy and promoting greener employee behavior through its Green Team initiative

eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Skype communications unit in a deal valuing the business at $2.75 billion.

eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) announced today that it has successfully completed its previously announced tender offer for all outstanding common shares and American Depositary Shares (ADSs) of Gmarket Inc. (Nasdaq: GMKT). The tender offer was commenced by eBay KTA (UK) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay, on May 4, 2009, and expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, on Friday, June 12, 2009 (which was 1:00 p.m., Seoul time, on Saturday, June 13, 2009).

My greatest fear was that the Internet would democratize antiquities trafficking, which previously had been a wealthy person’s vice, and lead to widespread looting" said the UCLA professor of anthropology, who directs the UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.

The New Year should begin well for elephants with eBay's worldwide ban on ivory products set to go into effect January 1, 2009.

Toyota today announced a brand-new collaboration with eBay Motors, allowing all Toyota Certified Used Vehicle (TCUV) dealerships to showcase certified used vehicle inventory on the eBay Motors Certified Pre-Owned Showroom.

Entrepreneur Draws on Extensive Buyer Comments to Grow Business from His Garage to $40 Million in Sales

Search initiative creating higher ROI for advertisers and attracting users to Live Search.

eBay, the world's largest trading community, is pioneering enterprise analytics as a service, working with Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC), the world's largest company solely focused on data warehousing and enterprise analytics.

Atlantic Records and DIRECTV among Latest Companies to Adopt Adobe AIR

eBay Motors, the Internet's largest marketplace for buying and selling all things automotive, today unveils the eBay Motors Certified Pre-Owned (CPO) Showroom. Designed to house franchise dealer inventory, this hub is exclusively sponsored by Lexus and provides eBay Motors' 12 million monthly unique visitors* with even more selection.

With more than five billion Stumbles to date, discovery is gaining ground on traditional search.

StumbleUpon's SearchReviews feature displays website ratings and friends' recommendations next to search results.

eBay Inc. today announced that it has acquired ViA-Online GmbH, a leading auction management software company in Germany that operates Afterbuy.com to enable professional trading on eBay.de and other online marketplaces.

Palm Europe Ltd today announced the Palm Treo 500v smartphone which combines multiple forms of communication and multimedia capabilities with high speed 3G/UMTS mobile internet access

Yahoo! will combine its Search and Display advertising sales teams in the US, and has appointed David Karnstedt, currently senior vice president of Yahoo!'s Search sales business, to lead the unified organization as Head of North American Sales.

Today at the sixth annual eBay Live! Conference, eBay Inc. and PayPal announced the availability of the PayPal Security Key for its customers.