In the News

Rupert Murdoch vs. Google: A Gamechanger?

Global media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp is considering blocking Google from being able to search its news articles as a part of a plan to monetize online news content.
Further, Newscorp is reportedly in talks with Microsoft to receive payments so that Bing has access to Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and its other properties.  [...]

General

Rough Weekend for eBay

On Saturday, November 21, eBay users discovered that site’s search functionality–and other functions–were not working.  It took until late Sunday evening to iron out all of the bugs.
This morning, I got an email from eBay apologizing for sending out an email that promoted 50% discounted seller listing fees for November 23-25.  Apparently some sellers (not [...]