Ticketed attractions

eBay is buying StubHub, the San Francisco sports, music and theater tickets reseller for $310m. It gets a rebate though - StubHub brings with it a dowry of $25m in net cash.…

eBay payment protection doubled

PayPal is doubling payment protection in the US and Canada for most eBay transactions to $2,000.…

Pays greens for Astroturf campaign

Yelp - the review site that relies on people just like you and me to help readers find the hippest shops, bars and restaurants - has been paying marketers to write reviews and post comments, BusinessWeek reports.…

Sold for £27m

DatingDirect, the Brummie-based dating service, has been sold to French dating company Meetic for £27.3m.…

Don't touch that mouse Siobhan

Online shopping in Ireland is a woman's world according to a new study by researchers from Dublin City University (DCU).…

Cash-strapped husbands beware

Ferdinand Marcos can be thankful he's dead, because Amazon yesterday announced it has launched a dedicated shoe and handbag website in the US "to tap into the growing footwear and accessories market".…

Greetings, pop-pickers

The UK Top 40 singles chart has severed its historical dependency on physical stuff. As of yesterday, the hit parade will allow digital-only tracks to be included in the weekly listing. The Official UK Charts Company, which runs the marketing survey, has dropped its requirement that labels must produce the song in some physical form.…

Successful trial selling newspaper ads points to corporeal future

A 2-month trial selling newspaper adverts to Google’s on-line customers has exceeded expectations according to the Washington Post, and will be expanded into a commercial service in the next few months, with radio and TV to follow.…

Sidney, Montana not Sydney, Australia

A typing mistake on an online booking form left a German tourist 13,000km off-course on a journey to meet his girlfriend.…

What took it so long?

Comment According to recent headlines, Sony is somehow going to challenge Apple iTunes with a film download service straight for the PSP. Instead those headlines should have asked why it has taken so long.…