HONG KONG, Oct 3, 2008 (AFP) - TOM Group said Friday it adhered to Chinese laws, after security experts revealed the media and Internet firm was archiving politically sensitive messages sent using Skype.

Skype on Thursday became the latest US firm embroiled in controversy
over its operations in China, acknowledging that its Chinese partner
had been archiving politically sensitive text messages.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2008 (AFP) - China is monitoring the chat messages of Skype users and censoring them if they contain sensitive keywords such as 'Tibet' or 'Communist Party,' according to a group of Canadian researchers.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2008 (AFP) - Skype, the online text messaging and voice service, said Thursday it was 'extremely concerned' by monitoring of Internet chat by its Chinese partner reported by Canadian researchers.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2008 (AFP) - Skype, the online text messaging and voice service, said Thursday it was 'extremely concerned' by monitoring of Internet chat by its Chinese partner reported by Canadian researchers.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2008 (AFP) - A group of computer security experts at the University of Toronto has revealed that the Chinese partner of the Skype online text messaging service was spying on Skype users in China.

The following is a list of politically sensitive keywords which Citizen Lab said triggered the monitoring of the Internet chat of TOM-Skype users in China:

LONDON, Sept 30, 2008 (AFP) - British police are investigating how a digital camera reportedly containing MI6 images of terrorist suspects came to be sold on Internet auction site eBay, police and the Foreign Office said Tuesday.

SEOUL, Sept 25, 2008 (AFP) - South Korea Thursday gave a conditional green light to Internet auction site eBay to acquire Gmarket, the country's top online auction and shopping mall.

The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) authorised eBay to buy a 36 percent stake in Gmarket from Interpark Corp and Interpark chairman Lee Ki-Hyung, a spokesman for the anti-trust watchdog said.

NEW YORK, September 3, 2008 (AFP) - Online giant eBay announced Wednesday it was launching an ethically sourced marketplace selling 'products that have a positive impact on people and the planet.'

LONDON, August 26, 2008 (AFP) - A British data processing firm has launched an urgent review after a staff member sold a computer on eBay containing personal details of a million bank customers, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Online auctioneer eBay claimed Tuesday to have won a Belgian court case against L`Oreal after the ...

PARIS, June 30, 2008 (AFP) - A Paris court on Monday ordered the online auctioneer eBay to pay 40 million euros (63 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling fake luxury goods online.

PARIS, June 30, 2008 (AFP) - A Paris court on Monday ordered the online auctioneer eBay to pay 40 million euros (63 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton for selling luxury goods online.

PARIS, June 30, 2008 (AFP) - A Paris court was to decide Monday whether to make eBay pay 51 million euros (80 million dollars) in damages to Louis Vuitton and other French luxury groups for letting fake copies of their goods be auctioned on its website.

PARIS, June 29, 2008 (AFP) - A Paris court is to decide Monday whether to make eBay pay 51 million euros (80 million dollars) in damages to Luis Vuitton and other French luxury groups for letting fake copies of their goods be auctioned on its website.

REIMS, June 4, 2008 (AFP) - Online auction giant eBay was convicted by a French court Wednesday of selling counterfeit goods and ordered to pay 20,000 euros (30,000 dollars) in damages to French luxury group Hermes.

REIMS, June 4, 2008 (AFP) - Online auction giant eBay was convicted Wednesday of selling counterfeit goods and ordered to pay 20,000 euros (30,000 dollars) in damages to French luxury group Hermes, Hermes' lawyer said.

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2008 (AFP) - Bear Stearns' go-getting investment bankers used to chase million-dollar deals, but staff at the now hard up Wall Street bank have resorted to auctioning off Bear Stearns-branded memorabilia to raise funds.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 29, 2008 (AFP) - EBay said on Tuesday it is cutting fees it charges people to offer items for sale and raising standards at the online auction website.

In a move aimed at staving off increasing competition from the likes of Google and Craigslist, eBay is trimming fees it charges aspiring sellers by as much as half.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 28, 2008 (AFP) - Online financial transactions firm PayPal announced on Monday that it has a 169-million-dollar deal to buy an Israeli company that specializes in uncovering fraud.

PayPal, which is owned by veteran Internet auction service eBay, expects to complete the purchase of Fraud Sciences Ltd. in 30 days.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 23, 2008 (AFP) - Meg Whitman was a successful marketing executive for a toy making giant in 1998 when she took a big risk on a new game -- a fledgling online auction firm called eBay.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 23, 2008 (AFP) - Online auction website eBay said Wednesday chief executive Meg Whitman will step down in March, handing the company's reins to its marketplace unit head John Donahue.

Confirmation of Whitman's departure came as eBay announced its profit in the last three months of 2007 soared 53 percent to 530.9 million dollars, or 39 cents per share.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 26, 2007 (AFP) - Online auction giant eBay has launched a microlending website that lets people invest in entrepreneurs in poor communities around the world and get a return on their money.

GENEVA, Dec 18, 2007 (AFP) - Swiss authorities Tuesday said they had blocked the auction of a more than 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablet on online trading giant eBay as the antiquity had probably been smuggled from Iraq.

Legal action is being taken against the Zurich-based seller, the Swiss police and culture departments said in a joint statement.

PARIS, Dec 3, 2007 (AFP) - France's auction houses said Monday they are taking joint legal action against the online giant eBay, accusing it of encouraging trade in pirated and stolen goods.

The council representing the French auction industry accuses the Internet trader of breaking a French 2000 law which requires all auctioneers to be approved by the state.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 4, 2007 (AFP) - Yahoo announced Thursday it will start thwarting scammers that send bogus eBay or PayPal account e-mails to trick people into revealing passwords and credit card numbers.

Yahoo said it collaborated with eBay, which owns online financial transactions service PayPal, to devise a way to block the fake messages from the US Internet firm's free e-mail accounts.

The scam, referred to as 'phishing' because it relies on hooking victims with deceptive e-mail messages, is perpetual online bane.

WASHINGTON, Oct 2, 2007 (AFP) - Online auction giant eBay announced that it is replacing the founder and chief executive of its Skype online telephone subsidiary and would take a charge of 1.43 billion dollars two years after buying the company.

Niklas Zennstrom, who founded Skype in 2003 together with Janus Friis and sold it to eBay for 2.6 billion dollars, is stepping down as the company's CEO to become non-executive chairman of the company's board of directors.