eBay Petitions EU Over Brand Rules

eBay called on the European Union today to amend an EU competition law to stop brands from restricting the sale of their products on the Internet. The company has given a petition to the European Parliament, signed by 750,000 Europeans' calling for reform.

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Bonanzle Surpasses Milestone User Number

eBay competitor Bonanzle recently told us the company was approaching several milestones, one of these being welcoming its 100,000th registered user. The company announced today that they have surpassed that one. In fact, they did it earlier this week on September 14, just barely a year after the site launched.

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eBay Named Most Trusted Brand in America

TRUSTe has released the results of its analysis of the privacy practices of the largest brands in the US, and found that eBay is the most trusted company. Other web brands in the top ten include WebMD, Yahoo, and Facebook. Interestingly enough, Google didn't crack the list. Here is the top ten:

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Google Wants You to Be Able to Leave if You Want

Data portability is an important issue for users and businesses alike. In this age of cloud computing, where so many web users have valuable data hosted by web services, we can sometimes find ourselves vulnerable to the will and occurrences of these services. Let's say for example, Twitter is one of the key components to your marketing strategy, and one of your main sources of…

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Google Trying to Differentiate Between Blogs and News?

Google News is now labeling certain publications as blogs in search results. I'm not sure exactly how long it has been like this, but I noticed it for the first time today. In the past they have separated "news" and "blogs" on some results pages, but in what I'm talking about now, the results are mixed together, but some publications have "(blog)" written beside their…

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