The European Commission has imposed a fine of €1,060,000,000 on Intel Corporation for violating EC Treaty antitrust rules on the abuse of a dominant market position (Article 82) by engaging in illegal anticompetitive practices to exclude competitors from the market for computer chips called x86 central processing units (CPUs).
The announcement made yesterday is a major [...]

At eBay Live! in 2006, then-CEO Meg Whitman stated the choice confusion of putting eBay Stores inventory in core had caused a major drop in traffic and sales volume. Now that John “Mr Retail” Donahoe is CEO, eBay is hell-bent on introducing “stores back into core” … but it’s not a U-turn.

Ed-itorial Commentary
Following the talk-fest that followed the announcements in Washington DC last month, and the subsequent avalanche of policy announcements from national marketplaces worldwide, I’ve finally found time to look at eBay’s fourth quarter financial report for 2007.
Several interesting trends have appeared, though I’m not going to talk a lot about their earnings, which every [...]

Sun Microsystems announced a few weeks ago that they’d be attempting the acquisition of MySQL for one billion dollars, made up of 80% cash and 20% stock options.
Sun’s Chief Exec Johnathon Shwartz refers to it as “most important acquisition in the company’s history” and I couldn’t agree more.
Whilst most of the industry pundits are proselytising [...]

For some, it’s the announcement they’ve been waiting for, for over a year. 
For others, it’s not news but a scheduled event. 
The announcement has arrived on eBay and Ms Whitman will be stepping down from the top slot effective 31 March 2008. 
John Donahoe, current head of eBay Marketplaces will succeed her, and the much liked PayPal President, Rajiv [...]

By Michel Fortin (c) 2008
Since the new year is right around the corner, bloggers and marketers alike are posting their predictions as if a psychics convention has come to town.
So in keeping with that tradition, I’d like to post a few of my own. But unlike those who post their predictions in point form, [...]

In the UK, the 5th of November is the annual Bonfire Night and Fireworks Festival, held annually to commemorate (or commiserate) the unsuccessful attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the British Houses of Parliament, or Westminster Palace as it was then.
On planet eBay, 5th November 2007 will be remembered for many things -

India [...]