Turns out that suit eBay filed against Craiglist last week really is about the online classified ad market. After filing the suit under seal in a Delaware court last week and saying only that Craiglist had taken unilateral actions to dilute eBay’s 28.4 percent stake in Craigslist, eBay has now published the text of its complaint (PDF), minus some redactions the company claims were requested by Craigslist. The complaint reveals that Craigslist apparently considered eBay’s own classified ad server Kijiji—launched in 2005 and brought to the U.S. in mid-2007—to be an activity that competes with Craigslist and therefore invalidates some shareholder rights eBay acquired with its 28.4 percent stake. eBay says Craigslist’s interpretation of the terms is incorrect, and seeks to have the diluting transactions nullified.
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IDF: Intel?s View of the Future for Windows, Linux, & Apple Users
The interesting thing about the IDF (Intel’s Developer Forum) is that it exists 2 years in the future.
The reason for this is that it is focused on software and hardware developers who need long lead times to create new hardware and get them to market on top of the new technology that Intel is developing. Virtually all of Intel’s partners are here… but finding the Apple guys is a challenge, because of how secretive they are with regard to what portions of the Intel platform they will use in 2 years.
Politicos Unite Against AOL ‘Email Tax’
Liberal political action group MoveOn.org is organizing a petition drive against America Online’s certified email service, whereby advertisers could pay a per-message fee to guarantee their messages will bypass AOL’s spam filtering technologies and be delivered directly to AOL users. Claiming the service amounts to an “email tax” by granting large email senders preferential access to AOL users mailboxes, while leaving other email users (like small businesses, friends, family members, charities, and co-workers) in the dark, wondering if their mail will get through.