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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 […]

Craigslist responds to eBay: Nyah, nyah

Although Craigslist originally said that it couldn’t respond to the allegations made in eBay’s lawsuit against the company, it seems that Craig and/or Jim couldn’t help themselves: the Craigslist blog has a post up entitled “Kettles and Pots” which notes that many of the things eBay is accusing Craigslist of doing are things that eBay […]

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 […]

eBay to Craigslist: Oh no you didn’t

Update:
A post at the newish Craigslist blog says that the company is:
“surprised and disappointed by Ebay’s unfounded allegations, which came to us out of the blue, without any attempt to engage in a dialogue with us.”
And the post goes on to say that eBay has no reason to feel threatened
“unless of course they’re contemplating a […]

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 […]

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