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Michael Geist points us to the news that a Canadian court has told eBay Canada that it needs to cough up info on Canadian PowerSellers.

The case involves attempts by the Canadian government to determine if eBay PowerSellers are underreporting earnings on their taxes.

This is the first in a four part series which I hope gives buyers, sellers, shareholders and dare I say management a platform for discussion.

Following last week's historic election of Barack Obama, there was a rush to buy up paper newspapers announcing the news, with the idea being that those newspapers would be quite valuable.

In fact, some newspapers were quickly being resold on eBay for up to $400 -- and many buyers plan to preserve the papers, hoping they'll be worth even more in the future.

Of course, it sounds as though many newspaper publishers got exactly the wrong lesson from this.

Aric Sigman: Free speech and the internet: Why parents should act as real-time censors to combat the manifold threats the internet poses to children

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Apparently Microsoft's ongoing program to bribe users to use its search engine wasn't getting enough attention, and the company seems to be upping the ante.

At least for a little while, it's now giving 25% cash back on eBay purchases (limited to $200).

At some point, you really have to wonder how well this program really works.

A new 'eBay college' online aims to make students, and teachers, of us all, says Lucy Tobin

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A reader wants advice on how to use eBay to turn charity shop bargains into cash

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Yoono, the browser-based social aggregator, has announced a new release that includes features such as support for Internet Explorer, MySpace and imeem integration, and the biggest news of all, a shopping widget.

Over the many months we’ve been covering Twitter, talking about Twitter and using Twitter, one of the most common themes we keep coming back to is whether or not they’re every going to decide to monetize the service, and how.

I read this book from cover to cover, amazed (and wishing I'd had this one with me when I STARTED on Ebay). What author Steve Weber has done with this book is to gather the information that can take sellers years to learn and created a virtual seller's...