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eBay Sues Craigslist 283

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @11:34AM from the no-more-legal-mumbo-jumbo dept.

phpmysqldev writes "In a very random move eBay has filed a lawsuit against Craigslist to 'protect its investment and shareholders'. "In a statement, eBay claimed that in January, Craigslist executives took actions that 'unfairly diluted eBay's economic interest by more than 10%'." eBay is a minority shareholder of Craigslist owning 28.4%. Craigslist suspects eBay's intentions are less than honorable, speculating about a possible hostile takeover. The court case is sealed and eBay has not elaborated on its claims."

Comment It's not as simple as a defective patch (Score 1) 106

by calculatino on Friday April 20, 2007 @12:31PM (#18813001) Attached to: RIM Releases Reason for Blackberry Outage

Many things went wrong at once: - defective patch - automated and manual testing missed the defect - defective patch rolled out to a huge portion of the user base at once - rollback failed/ineffective On the flip side, some things went right: - no data loss, messages delayed instead of lost - BB's continued to function properly while server offline - phone functions unaffected - firms running their own BES servers unaffected - lastly, even with this outage, they're still offering lots of 9's of availability.

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