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1 online automotive marketplace worldwide, now offers free vehicle history reports through an exclusive agreement with Experian's AutoCheck.

The legal challenges to Intel Corp.'s sales tactics mounted Wednesday as New York's attorney general accused the world's biggest computer chip maker of using "illegal threats and collusion" to dominate.

" Most people know eBay Inc. for its online marketplace, where deals abound on everything from gadgets to antique furniture.

Most of Silicon Valley's biggest tech stocks lost ground today along with the Dow and Nasdaq.

San Jose-based EBay Inc. will concentrate on customers that want to export merchandize from China and will work with local companies to expand in the market, Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe said.

The "AutoCheck" information, supplied by Experian Automotive, will detail whether vehicles have been involved in major accidents, have salvage titles, have been stolen or repossessed, have had their odometers tampered with, or have seen special duty as a taxi or police vehicle.

Meg Whitman, former chief executive officer of eBay,A defended her decision to buy Skype in a radio interview with KTKZa TMs Capitol Hour featuring Eric Hogue.

The bitter battle over the future of the Internet calling service Skype appears to be nearing an end.

Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places.

For Indian beadworkers who craft intricate necklaces and earrings, Haitian metalworkers who recycle oil drums into sculptures, and Guatemalan weavers who make rainbow-hued tapestries, the economic downturn that has choked off consumer spending could mean a devastating plunge back into poverty.

In an effort to focus attention on eits online marketplace, eBay Inc. yesterday launched The Inside Source, a fashion-focused online magazine that aims to offer unique insights about lifestyle and fashion trends by analyzing the buying and selling activities of the eBay shopping community's 89 million active shoppers.

EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of the Skype online calling service.

Today: Obama extends jobless benefits as unemployment surges over 10 percent. A tax credit for homebuyers is extended.

Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for EBAY, ORCL, ADP, SUN, and SWKS.

What do Zoolander , Bruno , and eBay have in common? If your answer is "they have all lampooned the fashion industry," sashay on down the catwalk and collect a prize.

Kijiji.com, eBay's free, local, family-friendly classified site, today announced a partnership with the eBay Green Team in the third and final phase of its six-week "re+purpose" campaign.

A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot in a celebrity-filled Los Angeles cemetery.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has surprised many in the city by beating a retreat to Hawai'i, where his wife and baby daughter were already on vacation, with no warning.

Today is the first day of PayPal's much-hyped PayPal Innovate X 2009, the payments company's first dedicated developer conference.

There is a good likelihood that Skype; its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis; and a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal disputes, allowing eBay to sell 65 percent of Skype for about $2 billion.