Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Tuesday, October 5, 2004.

Industry News & Trends

"EBay To Launch Trade-In Plan For VARs," by Steven Burke
CRN, 10/4/04
http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=49400217

"eBay CEO tops Fortune women's list: Whitman said to be most powerful women in corporate world, displacing HP's Fiorina"
CNN/Money, 10/4/04
http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/04/news/newsmakers/powerful_women

"Most Powerful Women in Business: eBay's Secret," by Patricia Sellers
Fortune, 10/18/04
Three paragraphs, must be paid subscriber to read fulltext:
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/articles/0,15114,704026,00.html

"eBay UK is five," by Lucy Sherriff
The Register, 10/4/04
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/04/ebay_five

"eBay celebrates five years"
Manchester Online, 10/4/04
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/technology/s/132/132422_ebay_celebrates_five_years.html

"People show their love for eBay in debut UK TV ad drive," by Sam Matthews
Revolution, 10/4/04
http://www.revolutionmagazine.com/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=ViewNewsArticle&ID=223907

"The Last Idealists: How did the iconoclasts at craigslist beat the web giants at their own game?" by Jyoti Thottam
Time, 10/11/04
http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1101041011-709063,00.html

"Loose Cannon: Did PhotoStamps Have to be Cancelled?" By Richard H. Levey
Direct Newsline, 10/04/04
http://enews.primediabusiness.com/enews/direct/newsline/current#loose_cannon_did_photostamps

"Free Classifieds Site Goes Live in Florida"
Editor & Publisher, 9/15/04
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/ad_circ/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000631803

Miscellaneous

"Cash America will acquire SuperPawn for $125 million," by John G. Edwards
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 9/9/04
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Sep-09-Thu-2004/business/24726809.html

"Yahoo Local Officially Launches," By Chris Sherman
Search Engine Watch Search Day, 10/4/04
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3416421