Craigslist

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Craigslist returns fire in eBay suit

After being hit with an eBay legal missile last month, Craigslist has responded with a projectile of its own: the company has filed a countersuit accusing the online auction company — which owns a 25-per-cent stake in Craigslist — with “unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, deceptive passing-off, business interference, false advertising, phishing [...]

eBay and Craigslist: A fox in the henhouse

A week or so ago, eBay filed a lawsuit against Craigslist, alleging that the controlling shareholders of the classified site — namely, founder Craig Newmark and CEO Jim Buckmaster — had taken certain steps to dilute the auction provider’s minority stake in the company, and thereby had breached their fiduciary duty and injured eBay as [...]

Craigslist vs. craigslist blogger, round three

The blogger that Craigslist sent a cease-and-desist letter to earlier this week isn’t going to back down quietly, it seems. He has published a response on craigslistblog.org to Jim Buckmaster’s recent post, in which he says that the ads were just to “cover some hosting costs.” He also says that with his misleading post, the [...]

Why is it different because it’s Craigslist?

So another ad on Craigslist has resulted in a man’s house being ransacked and many of his belongings — including his horse and his porch swing — being stolen. Robert Salisbury of Jacksonville, Oregon apparently came home to find people rummaging through his home, after an ad on Craigslist said that he was giving away [...]

Zuckerberg: We don’t focus on revenue

I know everyone is obsessed with when Mark Zuckerberg is going to announce the winner of the “Dance with Facebook for $10-billion” contest, but I found something he said during his interview with John Battelle interesting. He said:
“We don’t focus on optimizing the revenue we have today. It has always been our philosophy to run [...]

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