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Does this glue blob look like Homer Simpson?

Posted January 27, 2012 - 4:01 pm

It must be Friday - the weird videos are coming out.
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Apple fanboys, t-shirt traitors walk amongst you!

Posted December 12, 2011 - 4:54 pm

Apple doesn't give away t-shirts at its store openings so that avaricious imposters can flip them on eBay.
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Meg Whitman's early days at HP: Some predictions

Posted September 23, 2011 - 11:21 am

Now that Meg Whitman's in charge of HP, what can we expect? Here are some predictions.
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Meg Whitman as HP CEO: Obvious choice or obvious disaster?

Posted September 22, 2011 - 5:29 pm

Leo Apotheker is out as HP chief executive. Is new CEO Meg Whitman the right choice?
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For only $620,000, the world's only jet turbine-powered Batmobile can be yours

Posted September 5, 2011 - 9:29 am

A genuine, modern Batmobile can be yours for only $620,000. But time is running out!
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News Corp. fielding huge Myspace offers in crazy bidding frenzy! Oh, wait...

Posted June 6, 2011 - 9:25 am

News Corp. is looking for a partner -- any partner -- to help it run Myspace.
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Microsoft's Skype acquisition may impact Linux users

Posted May 9, 2011 - 11:59 pm

Microsoft is picking up Skype for around $8 billion. If true, it means big changes for Microsoft's place in the cloud and mobile markets... and probably the end of the road for Skype for Linux.
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eBay's Q1 earnings climb 20%

Posted April 27, 2011 - 5:26 pm

Online auction giant eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) on Wednesday reported a 20 percent increase in first-quarter net income, barely topping Wall Street estimates.
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eBay shares fall on pricey purchase of GSI Commerce

Posted March 28, 2011 - 5:07 pm

Wall Street's initial reaction to eBay's announced acquisition of ecommerce services player GSI Commerce (NASDAQ: GSIC) for $2.4 billion could be summed up in two words: eBay overpaid.
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News Corp. to auction off MySpace on eBay

Posted February 3, 2011 - 12:10 pm

OK, maybe I'm jumping the gun with the eBay thing, but at this point News Corp. has to put everything on the table because Myspace is sinking faster than Sarah Palin's presidential prospects.
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Is eBay on the decline?

Posted December 7, 2010 - 6:04 pm

GigaOm has an intriguing column by Eric Jackson contrasting the recent fortunes of discount web site start-up Groupon and longtime online auction powerhouse eBay.
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eBay refuses to sell Kevorkian deathmobile

Posted May 4, 2010 - 9:10 pm

Apparently the auction site has rules against selling "murderabilia."
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Lawsuit rages over negative eBay review

Posted April 25, 2010 - 5:17 pm

The lesson: always give everyone an A++++++ rating.
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Conceptual artwork sells itself on eBay once a week

Posted March 17, 2010 - 6:35 pm

Caleb Larsen's "A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter" may not look like much in terms of art; it's just a small, if stylish, black acrylic cube.
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Nuclear bunkers for sale on eBay

Posted March 16, 2010 - 6:30 pm

If you're interested in a two-room underground getaway in the middle of nowhere, you can bid for one online for as little as $4200.
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Weird eBay auction of the week: Prince Charles' love letters

Posted March 16, 2009 - 10:00 am

Back in the days before they could just text people, British royals carried on their love affairs discreetly, via post. And now you can own a piece of that expression of courtly love.
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eBay users to have opportunity to bid on used famous coffin

Posted January 14, 2009 - 10:00 am

Ever wanted to buy the Big Bopper's coffin -- not a replica, but the actual box that was in the ground for 48 years, where his corpse used to be? Well now you can, thanks to the magic of eBay!
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eBay reveals classic car's true worth

Posted December 11, 2008 - 2:05 pm

Never say the Internet isn't good for anything: without it, a Michigan man would have probably sold his old wreck of a car for $500 instead of the $226,000 it fetched on eBay.
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Pyramid of morons: Hoaxee makes eBay cash off of own stupidity

Posted October 20, 2008 - 2:25 pm

Say, remember the poor fellow was was duped into buying a Bigfoot corpse for $50,000, only to discover it was an empty ape costume?
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Hitting it big on eBay: New extinct species, futuristic toilets

Posted August 26, 2008 - 10:01 pm

Richard Harrington, an officer in the UK's Royal Entomological Society, probably thought that chunk of amber with an insect trapped inside that he bid for on eBay would make a nice paperweight -- but he didn't expect that the dead critter would be a representative of a previously unknown species, one that would end up being named for him.
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No bidders for bat-shaped bread (and peeing for science)

Posted July 18, 2008 - 3:56 pm

In our collection of oddities this week we find some relief from stories about people making gobs of money selling stuff that looks like other stuff, NASA finally showing some concern about an issue that has troubled us all since we first stepped into the Apollo model at the science museum, and proof from the animal kingdom that Circuit City is a wretched store. Also, we exact our revenge on the iPhone 3G and we take a little time to mock a student hacker.
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