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White Paper Manheim is the world's leading provider of used vehicle auctions and related services. Operating in 140 locations in 19 countries, the company and its subsidiaries processed sales of 10 million vehicles in 2008. [02 Oct 2009]
US ramps up probe into Microsoft-Yahoo! search deal
News to put Yahoo's search technology assets up for auction to let the deal go through. Google declined to comment on the circumstances that have led to the Justice Department's review, other than to say in a statement "there... [14 Sep 2009]
eBay sells most of Skype in $2bn deal
News Skype is a strong standalone business but it does not have synergies with our ecommerce and online payments businesses," eBay CEO John Donahoe said in a statement on Tuesday. As a separate company, we believe that Skype... [01 Sep 2009]
eBay set to hang up on Skype?
News The online auction giant eBay acquired Skype for $2.6bn in 2005 with the plans to offer customers the ability to discuss their transactions in real-time. When the company announced that John Donahoe as... [01 Sep 2009]
PayPal suffers global outage and performance woes
News As a key driver of growth for eBay, PayPal is becoming more important at the online commerce and auction site. PayPal suffered a global outage and slow performance on Monday but eBay says its... [04 Aug 2009]
Allegro Group Ensures Enterprise Scalability With Flexible, Integrated Data Warehouse Solution
White Paper Allegro Group selected HP Oracle Database Machine for its performance capabilities and scalability, which provided Allegro Group's online auction business with the ability to offload query processing to... [30 Jul 2009]
PayPal makeover sparks developer charm offensive
News It will eclipse the company's auction and commerce operations, the company says. PayPal, eBay's well established but aging mechanism for online payments, is trying to rebuild itself for a new generation... [24 Jul 2009]
Cheat Sheet: The Police Central e-crime Unit
Cheat Sheet It's also working on protecting the London 2012 Olympic Games from online threats and collating fraud reports from online auction site eBay. PCeU is a police unit that co-ordinates the... [20 Jul 2009]
£6 broadband tax to fund fibre for all
News To enable the UK's mobile networks to play a bigger part in building universal broadband, Carter flagged up the report's plans for "a programme of spectrum liberalisation, auction packaging, auction... [16 Jun 2009]
Why Anti-Phishing?
White Paper An attacker will typically choose a bank, payment service or online auction site and target their customers. In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers... [01 May 2009]
Chocs away for Thorntons new e-auctions
News Thorntons, which previously used a pay-as-you-go managed online auction system from Wax Digital, is now moving to a flat-fee option where it will host its own auctions on the same system. Thorntons will... [27 Apr 2009]
eBay to spin off Skype
News The decision comes four years after online auction giant eBay acquired Skype for $2.6bn, with the plans to offer customers the ability to discuss their transactions in real-time. When the company... [15 Apr 2009]
Police launch £1bn-worth of e-crime investigations
News Bowron said: "The NFRC will as never before ensure that reports of computer fraud are recorded, whether it is somebody who has lost £5 in an online auction house or had their bank account emptied in a... [25 Mar 2009]
eBay: e-crime cops latest recruit
News The link-up will allow police to provide "a quicker response" to larger-scale frauds against the auction giant's users, according to architect of the PCeU, detective superintendent Charlie McMurdie. The PCeU itself will... [25 Feb 2009]
Taobao.com Spearheads the Rise of China's Online Auction and Shopping Market Segment With Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor Technology
White Paper Back in 2003, when online auction and shopping in mainland China was still in its infancy, Taobao.com was set up to cater to the fledgling market segment. Today, the website has thoroughly changed not... [01 Jan 2009]
