In a statement issued on Friday June 13, online auction site eBay says it will challenge the Australian competition watchdog’s ruling to block a plan to force its users onto a PayPal-only payments system. “There will be a period of negotiation, but what happens next, I couldn’t speculate,” an eBay spokeswoman told The Sydney Morning…
ONLINE auction site eBay has failed in its bid to force Australian customers to use PayPal to pay for items on the auction website. The move by Ebay would have meant that users would have had just two payment alternatives: either use Paypal or cash on delivery. Last night the The Australian Competition and Consumer…
After all the battles that Google had in forcing Microsoft to allow freedom of choice when it came to search providers, it would make sense that they would uphold the same standards, right? According to Search Engine Land, Google is set to be the default search provider when Firefox 3 is released. During the battle…
Microsoft announced today that it was scrapping its takeover bid for Internet pioneer, Yahoo. The announcement was made today with the publication of a letter to the Yahoo board by Microsoft CEO Stephen Ballmer. “We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo and the market as a whole,” Mr Ballmer…
