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Source: eCommerceTimes
StrikeIron is bidding the tool as a way to help businesses put Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in place, linking CRM applications and Web site commerce applications with real-time data from various sources, including external customer, company and government data.
Targeted at developers who want to use the open architecture of Web services to enable business […]

Source: eBay

eBay University is coming to Anaheim, CA and Memphis, TN on Saturday, October 1st. Don’t miss your opportunity to learn all about selling on eBay from the experts - right in your hometown. Choose from one of the 2 courses being offered at both sites below to get started selling or increase your sales.
Attend […]

Source: The Detroit News (Michigan)
Launched Sept. 1, 31 year-old pizzeria owner Darren Anderson’s site Qwixo.com sells everything from Catherine Malandrino children’s clothing and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs figurines, to pet monkeys and a 7 -inch red boa constrictor. The site also advertises part-time and full-time jobs.
Qwixo and eBay are alike in many ways, […]

Source: PRWeb
Valerie, soon-to-be-mom-again in Newport News, Virginia, has joined the ranks of other woman who have auctioned off advertising space on their baby-swollen stomachs: Valerie has used eBay to sell advertising on her pregnant belly as well as her SUV. She also has a seperate auction for the naming of her unborn baby boy, who […]

Source: The Auto Channel
Former Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini’s historic 1939 Lancia Astura limousine will be available for worldwide auction on eBay Motors with 100% of the auction proceeds benefiting SickKids Foundation. The auction begins September 30, 2005 on eBay Motors and runs for 10 days. This very rare opportunity provides buyers worldwide the ability […]

Source: Yahoo! News
eBay Inc. has been very, very good to San Francisco-based SquareTrade, which verifies the reliability of sellers on the online auction site — 60,000 of them since launching five years ago, according to CEO Steve Abernethy.
SquareTrade also arbitrates online transaction disputes, working in five languages and 120 countries. And it vets Google Adwords […]

Call them odd. Eccentric. Strange. Freaky. Yes, celebrities are often just plain weird. So today on Weird Wednesday we’ll take a look at some crazy celebrity stuff with the help of a CNN article called “The Art of Celebrity Weirdness”.
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley started as a clean-cut singer with happy feet. He then descended into […]

Source: The Inquirer (not to be confused with the National Enquirer)
A laptop which contained the personal data of more than 98,000 current and former UC Berkeley students has turned up on eBay.
A college student, Shuki Alburati, 18, faces charges of buying the computer from a woman who stole it from a UC Berkeley office in […]

Source: Deutsche Welle (Germany)
A 21-year-old who had the good luck of buying a Volkswagen whose seats were once warmed by the current Pope is suddenly flush with cash. Divine intervention? No: eBay.
In January, Benjamin Halbe paid a used car salesman 9,500 euros ($12, 204 US dollars) for a 1999 Volkswagen Golf and hit the jackpot.
But […]

Source: Deutsche Welle (Germany)
Police believe a person who wanted to get back at the parents of a four-month old girl put their daughter up for auction on eBay.
The parents, who were on vacation at the time the announcement went up on Thursday, told police they knew who the person might be. “We are going after […]