Archive for December 7th, 2006

INTERNET auction site eBay is reportedly suing the organisers of the Big Day Out concert tour over their new anti-scalping ticket policy.
eBay claims the promoters are breaching trades practices legislation by tightening their ticketing conditions, Melbourne’s Herald Sun reports.
The changes mean Big Day Out tickets brought from eBay will not be valid
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According to reports, Google will be eliminating fees from its online payment, Checkout. To compete better with PayPal, Google is letting merchants use its Checkout system to process payments without taking a hit on transactions. Traditionally, merchants who use PayPal take a 2.9-percent hit on the total value of a transaction plus another 30-cents for [...]

EBay, the world’s biggest online auctioneer, announced Tuesday that it had hired Daniel Lee from a rival to head its development center in Shanghai, as the company seeks to increase share in China, the world’s second-biggest Internet market.
Lee, who was most recently chief technology officer for Yahoo’s North Asia unit, will lead the center’s expansion [...]