Here is the AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup for Monday, January 30, 2006.
NOTE: Writer Phil Dunn, who contributes to AuctionBytes-Update and is co-author of "The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing," will be interviewed as part of a segment on the Today Show airing on Tuesday morning. And writer Lissa McGrath mentioned she will be interviewed on NPR today (Monday), I'm not sure what time the interview will air.
"The Big Guns' Next Target: eBay: eBay's lucrative auctions are the target of Google's and Microsoft's push into classifieds," By Michael V. Copeland, 1/27/06
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/magazines/business2/ebay
"Auction site opens up more bargain buys," by ALEX L. GOLDFAYN, Chicago Tribune, 1/28/06
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0601280031jan28,1,91736.story
"Biting into online fraud: COMPLAINTS DROP, BUT SAFETY STILL UP TO CONSUMERS," By Matthai Chakko Kuruvila, Mercury News, 1/28/06
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/13735132.htm
"Police said to seek talk with Entwistle, Hopkinton father had online troubles," By Donovan Slack and Stephanie Ebbert, Boston Globe, 1/27/06
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/01/27/police_said_to_seek_talk_with_entwistle
"Seeing Fakes, Angry Traders Confront Ebay," by Katie Hafner, New York Times, 1/28/06
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/29/technology/29ebay.html?hp&ex=1138510800
"Net Firms Raise Capitol Hill Profile," By AMY SCHATZ, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 1/28/06
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http://digbig.com/4gcps
"Technology: Free Calls Get Pretty," By Brad Stone, Newsweek, from the February 6, 2006 issue, posted online on 1/28/06
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11078979/site/newsweek
"Move over eBay - this is the police," by Patrick Collinson, The Guardian, 1/28/06
http://money.guardian.co.uk/savingmoney/story/0,12555,1696606,00.html
"Man ready to sue to collect S$1 car sold at online auction," By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia, 1/27/06
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/190376/1/.html
"Accenture works on service to offer insurance for online auctions. Reserve bidding scares off users of sites like eBay, researcher says," by Neil Sutton, IT Business Canada, 1/26/06
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=38146
"Web auction site pushing to be the top in Europe," Manchester Evening News, 1/26/06
http://digbig.com/4gcqd
"EBay bans sale of endangered sawfish: Snouts fetched hundreds of dollars in U.S., U.K., Australia," MSnbc, 1/24/06
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11007937
