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Spider-Woman: Lady Brenda Hale delivered a damning verdict against Boris Johnson

A tangled web: UK judge’s spider brooch trends online

Judge Brenda Hale delivered the court’s damning verdict against Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a huge glittery spider pinned to her right shoulder

A worker packs goods in a Jumia Technologies AG distribution warehouse in Lagos, Nigeria. The company’s focus is on the continent, where it works with hundreds of partners to distribute its products. (George Osodi/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Jumia, Africa’s e-unicorn?

The company may have more than four million customers, but it has not yet made a profit

Holocaust survivor Solomon Susskind

Original copy of ‘Schindler’s List’ up for sale on ebay

An original copy of the list of Jews Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust is up for sale on eBay, with the starting bid set at $3-million.

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EBay, PayPal sue Google over mobile wallet

Within hours of the unveiling of "Google Wallet" on Thursday, eBay and PayPal filed a lawsuit charging that Google tapped into trade secrets.

Skype’s owners set to make $5-billion

Skype’s owners, led by private equity firm Silver Lake, are set to earn more than three times their investment on the sale of Skype to Microsoft.

Microsoft reportedly mulling Skype buy

US software giant Microsoft is near to clinching a deal to buy internet telephony pioneer Skype for $7-billion to $8-billion, media reports say.

eBay bids $1,96-billion for GSI to take on Amazon

Auction site eBay moved to bolster its ability to take on number one web retailer Amazon.com with a $1,96-billion takeover bid for GSI Commerce.

Skype trade secrets were stolen to help eBay sale, founders claim

The founders of Skype have alleged its trade secrets were stolen to help facilitate its sale by eBay, in a move which could scupper the $2bn deal.

US online giant eBay to sell Skype, claims report

US online auction giant eBay will announce on Tuesday a plan to sell its web communication service Skype to an investment group.

Skype under threat from eBay licence row

Millions of people who use Skype could be forced to find other ways to make phone calls after eBay said it did not own the underlying technology.

StumbleUpon to eBay: So long and thanks for all the hits

Two years after eBay bought web discovery service StumbleUpon for $75-million, its founders have bought it back and returned to startup mode.

EBay draws $1bn from revolving credit facility

EBay said on Friday it had borrowed -billion under its revolving credit facility, with funds going toward its acquisition of Bill Me Later.

eBay spends billions while cutting jobs

It is also buying a Danish online classifieds site, dba.dk, and a vehicles website, bilbasen.dk, for $390-million.

eBay changes aim for fewer critics and more sellers

eBay will unveil sweeping changes on Wednesday to encourage more fixed-price sellers as part of a wider attempt to transform the business.

eBay hit with £30m fine for sales of fake luxuries

The world’s biggest online auctioneer, eBay, has been ordered to pay £30-million in damages for negligence in allowing the sale of fake goods.

Google makes gains during credit crunch

The internet company Google has defied predictions of economic doom by delivering a 31% surge in quarterly profits, which appeared to vindicate the company’s claims that people…

Start a web business in a few minutes

When David Pangelinan isn’t logging 14-hour days driving a fuel tanker, he’s at his computer indulging his latest hobby: building a succession of online stores in minutes.…

Start a web business in minutes

When David Pangelinan isn’t logging 14-hour days driving a fuel tanker, he’s at his computer indulging his latest hobby: building a succession of online stores in minutes.…

Thousands stuck with fake art prints

Take a second look at that signed Picasso print you bought on eBay. A ring of art counterfeiters has sold thousands of prints since 1999 bearing the forged signatures of Picasso,…

Witch’s hat and Jack Ruby’s gun under the hammer

The items are like a march through some of the most famous moments in 20th-century American history, some of them real, some of them cinematic: from the shooting of Lee Harvey…