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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Benito Mussolini's granddaughter demanded a police investigation on Friday after the late Italian dictator's blood and brain were reportedly offered for sale on eBay the online auction website.
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Beet.TV (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
NEW YORK, NY-- eBay has the pulse of the fashion market because, "It's probably the only place that a person could come to and really see the breadth and depth of style at their fingertips," says Constance White, Style Director...
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Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Link Alessandra Mussolini, a former showgirl turned MP, said she immediately informed the police when she found out. The listing, on auction site Ebay, reportedly showed images of a wooden container and ampoules of blood. Ebay, which does not allow the sale of human matter on its site, said that the listing was removed within hours. The initial price [...]
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Sky News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Skype's future has been secured after owners eBay finally sold a large proportion of the company by settling a legal row over rights to the web phone call technology.
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Bitterwallet (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s day two of our vote for the Worst Company In Britain 2009. In yesterday’s showdown, Halifax Bank Of Scotland beat Lloyds TSB at a canter with more than two thirds of the votes, which could translate into the fact that by merging with HBOS, the Lloyds Group have acquired the banking equivalent of a [...]
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a14ebooks (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Are you an eBay seller? If so, are you successful at what you do? Perhaps, the better question to ask yourself is if you are making a profit selling on eBay? If you aren’t, there are a number of steps that you can take to increase your chances of making a sale. When it comes to improving your chances of making a sale on eBay, your first impulse may to be change the way that your eBay items are...
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SiliconRepublic.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Web-auction giant eBay has completed its sale of online telephony player Skype to an investor group led by Silver Lake and including two of Skype's founders in a deal valuing the business at US$2.75 billion.
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ebay said last night it had completed its sale of its Skype unit, as it had vowed to do before the end of the year.
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SeekingAlpha Telecom Stocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tech Confidential submits: EBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY ) announced Friday that it has completed its spinoff of the Internet telephony unit to a consortium of investors that includes Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The deal values Skype at $2.75 billion, with the investor group getting 70% of the company and eBay retaining the rest. Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom...
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch: Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation — eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led …
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Second City Style (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pop-up stores have become all the rage here in New York, and today, eBay gets in on the act. For ten days, they'll have a pop-up shop on 57th Street near 5th Avenue, where they're displaying items commonly available on...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nokia is cutting its R&D workforce, while eBay says goodbye to Skype. Hear more about these stories and others in today's episode.
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Fool.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
eBay waves a tearful goodbye to Skype and pockets a cool $2 billion. Can you figure out why?
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Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
San Jose, Calif. - Nearly three months after first announcing the deal, online auction giant eBay (NASD: EBAY) said that it has completed the sale of a majority stake in its Skype Internet telephone business to an investment group headed by Silver Lake Partners. Under the deal, the investor group -- which also included Joltid Limited, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Andreessen Horowitz...
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
It looks like the eBay-Skype spectacle has finally come to a close. Despite all of the arguments (legal and otherwise) that cropped up at one point or another, representatives of both companies announced last night that the sale of Skype to an investor group is complete. Josh Silverman, the president of Skype, adopted a rather enthusiastic approach when breaking the news. He wrote on the Share Skype...