eBay vs. Craigslist Courtroom Fisticuffs Start Today 129
davekleiman writes with news that former eBay chief exec Meg Whitman took the stand today to kick off the battle that has been brewing between Craigslist and eBay. The waters are further clouded by Whitman's upcoming bid for governor of California. "eBay wants to shed light on the 'coercive plan' that it has said Newmark hatched with Craigslist Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster to dilute eBay's ownership stake, ultimately stripping eBay of its seat on the Craigslist board. Craigslist has hit back that eBay used its board seat to glean information to launch its own classified site, Kijiji. Craigslist also claims that eBay used deceptive tactics to direct traffic away from its site."
Re:Kijiji? (Score:4, Insightful)
Spoken like a true eBay shareholder.
Re:Seems like a small pond, but eBay is right (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Cross Ownership (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Seems like a small pond, but eBay is right (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:ebay is now just evil (Score:3, Insightful)
I might be missing something, but that doesn't sound particularly suspicious to me. Someone who owned a stake of Craigslist sold it; isn't that basically how stakes in companies work?
Re:Just one question (Score:3, Insightful)
"Kijiji (pronounced key-jee-jee) is Swahili for village." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kijiji
And it's English for "Lame Craigslist Knock-Off With a Stupid Name"