Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Thursday, January 20, 2005.

eBay's Financial Results

"EBay Posts 44% Jump in Profit; Forecast Is Tepid," By MYLENE MANGALINDAN, WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/20/05
http://digbig.com/4cmjb
Video of Meg Whitman on Wall Street Journal website, 1/19/05
http://digbig.com/4cmja

"Wall Street cool to eBay's profit," BBC, 1/19/05
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4189913.stm

"EBay Shares Fall on 2005 Forecasts Short of Estimates," Bloomberg, 1/19/05
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=apJhnBZvUACY&refer=home

"EBay Profit Misses Street Forecast," By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters), 1/19/05
http://olympics.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=7374240

"eBay Misses, Hits, Hunts For More in China," by Erin Joyce, Internetnews.com, 1/19/05
http://www.internetnews.com/article.php/3461591

Industry News & Trends

"EBay sellers eye Overstock, Google: Readers, eBay sellers write in to voice concerns," By Bambi Francisco, CBS.MarketWatch.com, 1/19/05
http://digbig.com/4cmjd

"Daum Communications Close to Acquiring Online Auctioneer Onket," Yonhap, 1/18/05
http://www.yonhapnews.net/Engnews/20050118/300500000020050118194255E3.html

Article about possible regulation for PayPal in Australia.
"Austrac beefs up for e-crime fight," by Simon Hayes, Australian IT, 1/18/05
http://digbig.com/4cmdm

"PayPal opens local site," News.com.au, 1/20/05
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11995581%255E15306,00.html

"Big ideas for small business," by Bob Mims, Salt Lake Tribune, 1/18/05
http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2530175

"eBay Puts Loyalty to the Test," By Kevin Kelleher, TheStreet.com, 1/19/05
http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/tech/internet/10203809.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

"The World According to eBay," By Erick Schonfeld,Business 2.0, 1/19/05
Paid registration required.
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1016530,00.html

Weird, Unusual, Celebrity or Charity Auctions

"Online auction spurs free biopsy for boy's tumor: Sales of bumper stickers on Ebay raised money for cancer operation" (AP), MSnbc.com, 1/18/05
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6838552

Miscellaneous

"Belo Localizes Interactive Division in Bid to Recapture Classifieds: The Dallas-based media company absorbs Belo Interactive and integrates operations at the local level, while losing some veteran managers. Can renewed focus save Belo from Craigslist, Monster, et al?" by Mark Glaser, Online Journalism Review, 1/18/05
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050119Glaser

"Grad, family will fund dorm," By ROBERT STERN, Trenton Times, 1/19/05
http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-2/110612555156600.xml

"Stamp Collecting in an E-Mail Age," By SANDEEP JUNNARKAR, New York Times, 1/20/05
Free registration required.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/technology/circuits/20stam.html