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HomeAway Hopes Golden Globes Ad Can Fix Super Bowl Blunder

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 15 at 6:00 am PT

The new campaign — set to the tune of “Let’s Stay Together,” by Al Green — is much more subtle than last year’s ad.

Fab.com Acquires FashionStake After Seven Months of Rapid Growth

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 13 at 6:00 am PT

Fab.com, a New York-based flash sales site known for selling home decor, apparel and other items from independent designers, has acquired FashionStake.

There Better Be Some Cool Stuff at CES, Because CE Holiday Sales Data Bytes!

Kara Swisher in Commerce on January 8 at 11:26 am PT

Camcorders and MP3 players go splat!

Former Top Yahoo Sales Exec Weishaupt Joins Criteo

Kara Swisher in Media on November 16, 2011 at 10:13 am PT

One thing Yahoo is good at: Giving other companies exec talent!

Second Life Founder Tries Bringing Aspects of the Virtual World to Real Life

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on November 1, 2011 at 5:02 am PT

Coffee & Power, started by the founder of Second Life, launches an online marketplace that allows people to buy and sell small tasks — or to meet in person at a company-owned cafe in San Francisco.

Local Marketplace Zaarly Raises $14 Million; Adds Meg Whitman as Director

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 25, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Zaarly has secured $14 million in financing; as part of the round, it has added former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, now chief executive at Hewlett-Packard, to the board.

eBay’s New Retail Platform Is Mostly Free, So What’s the Catch?

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 13, 2011 at 2:14 pm PT

EBay is making the tools it uses every day for its own marketplace available to other merchants — for free. So where does the revenue come from?

eBay Set to Outline Its Future, and It Looks Nothing Like Amazon

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 11, 2011 at 10:59 pm PT

At eBay’s developer conference today, it will unveil its biggest nonconsumer-focused push yet, by announcing a tech platform aimed at developers.

HP’s Abrupt About-Face Leaves Many Unanswered Questions

Ina Fried in Mobile on August 19, 2011 at 10:22 am PT

While HP made clear it is getting out of the webOS hardware business, it didn’t immediately have answers on a lot of the details of what exactly that retreat will look like.

Yahoo Loses Global Search Business Head Chi-Chao Chang

Kara Swisher in News on July 11, 2011 at 10:31 am PT

In the ongoing talent drain at Yahoo, longtime Yahoo search veteran Chi-Chao Chang is the next to swirl away from the Internet giant. Chang was VP and GM of the global search business at Yahoo and has been at the company since 1999. More importantly, he has been a key exec in Yahoo’s troubled search alliance with Microsoft.