Singer Thought Her Star Never Rose, but eBay Says Otherwise (Washington Post)

Forty-eight years ago, an ambitious teenager with a whale of a voice and a dream born of evenings singing doo-wop on street corners found her way from Louisville to Detroit, to an apartment just upstairs from the Gordy family’s recording studio.

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EBay’s biggest challenge: Amazon.com (Miami Herald)

Walt Kolenda, also known by the handle “Auction Wally,” began selling antiques and collectibles on eBay 10 years ago.

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EBay’s biggest challenge: Amazon.com (The State)

Walt Kolenda, also known by the handle “Auction Wally,” began selling antiques and collectibles on eBay 10 years ago. But when Kolenda shops online, he goes to Amazon.com. Kolenda isn’t one of those disaffected eBay sellers upset about recent changes in the online marketplace. He is just being practical. “Almost without fail, the best price will come up on Amazon,” says the longtime antique …

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eBay’s Biggest Challenge: Amazon.com (HispanicBusiness.com)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Walt Kolenda, also known by the handle “Auction Wally,” began selling antiques and collectibles on eBay 10 years ago. But when Kolenda shops online, he goes to Amazon.com . Kolenda isn’t one of those disaffected eBay sellers upset about recent changes in the online marketplace.

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VoIP Goes Mobile

Skype, the eBay (EBAY)-owned service used by more than 338 million people to make free PC-to-PC calls, later this year … which is owned by Hutchison Whampoa and offers wireless service in countries including Britain and Italy, will begin selling a …

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Billionaires for the next generation

He pocketed $22 million at 27 after selling the dot-com company Zip2. He followed that by co-founding PayPal. When the online payment processor was sold to eBay, Musk received nearly $170 million in eBay stock.

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EBay’s biggest challenge: Amazon.com (Boston Herald)

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Walt Kolenda, also known by the handle “Auction Wally,” began selling antiques and collectibles on eBay 10 years ago. But when Kolenda shops…

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eBay Requires Return Policy Beginning Late October (AuctionBytes)

eBay updated users and developers in recent days on a number of previously announced changes. The company told developers that policy enforcement for its new return policy requirement, announced in June, would begin in late October. A new field specifying who pays for return shipping would be available to developers in mid-September.

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GoAntiques Sold to Worthpoint, Will Launch eBay Alternative (AuctionBytes)

Atlanta-based WorthPoint has signed a letter of intent to acquire Ohio-based GoAntiques, an online network for buying and selling antiques and collectibles that has 350,000 registered members and nearly a million visits and thousands of transactions each month. GoAntiques also told users this week it would launch its own auction site in September as a result of eBay’s decision to close its eBay …

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Guide to eBay’s Latest Changes (AuctionBytes)

eBay has once again announced a host of major changes to its site this year, leaving sellers to figure out how best to adapt their selling strategies in light of the changes.

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