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Federal prosecutors in the United States have launched a criminal probe to discover whether eBay employees, including founder and Chairman Pierre Omidyar, used confidential information from classified ads giant Craigslist in an attempt to build its competing business, reports Reuters. The probe comes after years of legal battles in civil courts between the two companies over allegations that eBay purchased a stake in Craigslist for the sole… Read More

Federal investigators have begun investigating a number of smartphone app makers to determine whether their mobile software illegally transmitted or obtained user data, reports the Wall Street Journal. One of the apps included in the probe, which was launched by federal prosecutors in New Jersey, is popular online music streaming service Pandora. On Monday, Pandora disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that it had received a… Read More