eBay poised to halt sale of ivory on its websites
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Online auction giant eBay is set to ban ivory trade from its websites, as pressure mounts to eradicate illegal traffic in endangered species from the Internet, participants at the world forum regulating wildlife commerce said Tuesday.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Meg Whitman, the Web-pioneering chief executive of eBay Inc., is preparing to retire after a decade at the helm of the online auctioneer, according to a published report.
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EBay Inc., the world's largest online auction company, will upgrade its website to placate sellers and revitalize the company's slumping sales growth, chief executive Meg Whitman said.
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EBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google AdWords network in the U.S inÂ an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
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EBay Inc. became the latest Web site to say it will stop using Microsoft Corp.'s Passport user authentication system, as Microsoft continues to scale back the service.
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EBay, the world's largest online auctioneer, must wait to find out whether a judge will order it to stop using a Great Falls company's patent for online shopping.
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Longtime EBay CEO Meg Whitman is expected to announce her retirement sometime in the next few weeks.
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(InfoWorld) - eBay will once again advertise on Google's U.S. AdWords network, but its spending on it will be significantly lower. eBay will start turning on its U.S. AdWords ads on Friday, ending aÂ 10-day pulloutÂ that made headlines worldwide and was seen as a sign of the companies' deteriorating relationship. eBay has determined that it doesn't need to spend as much as it did before the ad blackout, eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said Friday. "In general, our AdWords spending will be significantly lower than it was before," Durzy said, declining to be more specific. eBay reallocated its U.S. AdWords budget to other advertising channels and found that it isn't as dependent on AdWords as it thought before doing this test, Durzy said. By spending part of its AdWords budget elsewhere from now on, eBay will obtain better value in terms of traffic to its marketplace, he said, adding that the AdWords blackout was never intended to be permanent. eBay shocked the Internet industry when it pulled its ads off of the U.S. AdWords network early last week. eBay is the largest paid search advertiser in the U.S., and Google is the country's largest paid search ad network. In March, eBay ranked first in the U.S. among paid search advertisers with 802 million sponsored link exposures, or 4.1 percent of the total, according to comScore Networks. Its position is even stronger if one factors in eBay's comparison shopping engine, Shopping.com, which ranked third on that list with 357 million sponsored link exposures, or 1.8 percent of the total. Meanwhile, Google topped the list of search engine referrers, handling 57.3 percent of all paid search ad clickthroughs, comScore said. Yahoo took a distant second place with 26.1 percent of clickthroughs. At the time of the ad pullout, eBay characterized the move as a regular "experiment" similar in nature to tests it runs regularly to determine the best mix for its advertising spending. Yet, a source told IDG News Service that the move was an angry reaction to Google's plan to throw a party in Boston last week to attract eBay merchants who would be in town to attend the eBay Live annual seller conference. Apparently, eBay's top brass took exception to Google's party, whose purpose was protesting eBay's decision to forbid merchants in its marketplace from using Google's Checkout online transaction system. After eBay turned off the ads,Â Google cancelled the party, but eBay kept the ad blackout in place until today, when it will be lifted. Google and eBay have increasingly become competitors in areas like online payments, where Checkout and eBay's PayPal compete, and product listings.
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Online auctioneer eBay on Tuesday sided with conservationists by banning international sales of ivory.
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Online auctioneer eBay Inc. has  pulled its advertising from search company Google Inc.&#39;s  AdWords network in the United States, an eBay spokesman said on  Wednesday.
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EBay will close its China site and begin a relationship with Tom Online to create a replacement, news reports indicated Tuesday.
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Another Online auction site eBay announced Wednesday that it will soon drop support for Microsoft&#39;s Passport for log-in to the site and discontinuing alerts sent via Microsoft&#39;s .
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EBay Inc Chief Executive Meg  Whitman, one of the most powerful women in business, is  preparing to retire from the online auctioneer, The Wall Street  Journal said on Tuesday.
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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday that eBay Inc. will soon drop support for its Passport service, originally intended to make the world's biggest software maker the gatekeeper of Web identities.
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eBay will have quite a moat to cross if it wants to challenge Craigslist.
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EBay has given notice that from now on, racially offensive terms may be used only if they are part of a book, movie or other product title.
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Tensions between eBay and Google rose on Wednesday after the auction site decided to pull some of its ads from the search engine's AdWords program.