The Delaware Court of Chancery has ruled in eBay’s favor in the shareholder suit filed against Craigslist. According to a press release issued by eBay today, “the ruling overturns a series of unlawful transactions undertaken by Craigslist’s majority shareholders to dilute eBay’s minority share in the company.” Chancellor William B. Chandler found that “Jim [Buckmaster]…

Today the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware issued a pretrial decision that dismissed two charges brought by eBay Inc. against craigslist board directors Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster. A trial is set to begin on December 7, 2009 on the rest of the charges. eBay’s deputy general counsel, Mary Huser issued the…

Hi everyone, As a former law enforcement officer this kind of fraud really makes me cringe because it could have been easily avoided! Recently we learned about a woman who was victimized by a fraudster because she didn’t realize that there is no relationship between Craigslist and eBay postings, and did not follow eBay’s general…

Wal-Mart quietly launched its own Classified Listings service at the end of last month partnering with Oodle to deliver the service. With the recent headline-grabbing news for online classifieds with both eBay’s Kijiji and Craigslist, I was surprised that this only raised a few eyebrows online. Although, it does confirm what we talked about on…

There has been a lot of discussion over the past few weeks about the redacted complaint made public by eBay regarding its lawsuit with Craigslist and, more recently, with Craigslist’s lawsuit with eBay filed last week. I have been approached by a number of Ink readers and employees at eBay asking me why I have…

A report issued yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) looked at the issue of military goods that were either stolen or not disposed of properly turning up on online sites. The GAO conducted its investigation between January 2007 and March 2008. eBay VP and Deputy General Counsel for Government Relations, Tod Cohen, testified on…