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The final results are in: eBay and private investors led by Silver Lake Partners have struck a deal with Skype founders and JoltID, the technology company controlled by Skype founders Niklas Zennströ

At first glance, it looks like eBay and Amazon are swapping fortunes.

Millions of people logged onto the web when the news of Michael Jackson’s sudden death broke last week, and they’re continuing to flock to eBay to get their hands on the pop king’s memorabilia

As eBay tinkers with its e-commerce site, CEO John Donahoe has been making the case that the company is turning around.

Is any tech CEO more reviled by his or her own customers than eBay’s John Donahoe?

CurtMonash writes "Web analytics databases are getting even larger.

Jared Knof (Adroll), Catalina Girald (Moxsie) and Garret Camp (StumbleUpon). Photo by Om Malik

Simmons writes with news of research that demonstrated vulnerabilities in Skype and Google Voice that would have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on calls or place unauthorized calls of their own.

cayenne8 writes "I want to experiment at home with setting up multiple VMs and installing sofware such as Oracle's RAC.

In November 2004, eBay’s stock was trading near an all-time high at $56 a share, having risen sixfold in a little less than four years. This month, shares were trading below $10.

eBay CEO John Donahoe said last month, “We have a powerful portfolio; one that, I frankly believe, is not fully credited in the value of the company.” He’s absolutely right.

Steve writes "SecurityFix reports that a group of researchers from Germany published a study in which they analyzed several hundred so-called 'drop zones,' i.e.

turnkeylinux writes "TechCrunch is reporting that eBay is under fire from users because of a holiday giveaway contest gone awry. On Tuesday Nov.

CurtMonash writes "Parallel Efficiency is a simple metric that divides the actual work your parallel CPUs do by the sum of their total capacity.

Speculation has surfaced recently that StumbleUpon, a social media utility that was acquired by eBay in April 2007 for around $75 million, was back on the market.