Tap the wisdom of employees -- and boost the bottom line

When it comes to solving pressing business problems, the conventional wisdom is that two heads are better than one. With the advent of collective-intelligence tools, enterprises are realizing that thousands of heads are even better still.

By Linda Rosencrance | 25 February, 2010 09:49

Tags: skills, staff

Minding Online Store a Case of 'Not My Job'

Last month, a federal judge ruled that eBay had fulfilled its obligations to investigate and control users who were trying to use its Web site to sell counterfeit Tiffany goods -- a decision that put the onus on Tiffany to monitor eBay's site itself.

By Linda Rosencrance | 21 August, 2008 12:09

Tags: ebay, e-commerce

Tiffany appeals eBay counterfeit ruling

Tiffany & Co. has appealed a US district court ruling that says eBay is not responsible for counterfeit goods sold on its Web site.

E-commerce leaders move to fight deceptive online ads

E-commerce leaders have joined together to try to protect Internet users from deceptive online ads.

Google Apps goes to school at Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame has joined a number of other schools that are using Google Apps Education Edition to provide e-mail and other collaboration tools to its students.

What's in store at Yahoo's annual meeting

If you thought the days before Yahoo's annual meeting on Friday were going to be relatively uneventful, think again.

EBay, British luxury goods group to talk counterfeit sales

Intellectual property lawyers from eBay and Walpole British Luxury, a group that represents the British luxury goods industry, are meeting Monday in London to discuss ways they can work together to prevent the sale of counterfeit goods online.

American Airlines drops trademark lawsuit against Google

American Airlines has dropped its trademark infringement lawsuit against Google, which claimed the Internet company used the airline's trademark to trigger paid advertisements for other companies.

Australian competitor, users take on eBay

EBay doesn't seem to be out of the woods just yet.

Study: Google gets 70 per cent of all US searches in June

Seventy per cent of US searches in June were done on Google's search engine, according to Web measurement figures from market research company Hitwise.

Report: New models of Amazon's Kindle coming

Amazon is set to release two new models of its popular e-book reader, the Kindle, according to the TechCrunch blog.

Report: Time Warner in talks with Yahoo, MS for AOL deal

Time Warner is in separate talks with Microsoft and Yahoo to sell its AOL Internet division before Yahoo holds its annual shareholders meeting on August 1, according to a Reuters report.

Privacy groups to Google: What took you so long?

Privacy groups are glad that Google has finally placed a link to its privacy policy on its home page, but they said it was something the search engine company was legally obligated to do anyway.

Sold on eBay for $399k: One life

Australian resident Ian Usher, 44, sold everything he owned on eBay for a little more than US$382,000 in an online auction that ended Sunday.

eBay fined $61M in furor over fake goods

A French court has fined eBay US$61 million for allowing the sale of Louis Vuitton Malletier and Christian Dior Couture counterfeit goods on its Web site, the luxury goods company LVMH said Monday.