Here is today's AuctionBytes online-auction news roundup.

"Mercado May Attract Investors and Rival," (AP), Houston Chronicle, 8/6/07
The Associated Press has a nice explanation of the implications of an IPO by MercadoLibre Inc., a Latin American marketplace partly owned by eBay.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5029672.html

"Winners of the French eBay Developers Contest," posted on the eBay Developers Program blog, 8/1/07
http://ebaydeveloper.typepad.com/dev/2007/08/winners-of-the-.html

"German court says EBay must work to halt sale of fake Rolexes," By W. David Gardner, ITnews, 7/30/07
http://tinyurl.com/2sbb7b

"Review: Google Simple, PayPal Versatile," By ANICK JESDANUN (AP), Washington Post, 8/2/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/02/AR2007080201491.html