After the success of the BBC Children In Need charity option on ebay, the auction giant announced that the long awaited eBay for Charity programme opened its doors to all UK charities.

UK website, Friends Reunite has ruled out selling to venture capitalists. It has attracted interest from at least six companies from old media like News Corp, Yahoo! and eBay.

Paypal has been plagued by two separate technical problems causing duplicate transactions on some customer statements. Although money is not actually being debited.

Over the last few days, there have been numerous rumours on the internet regarding eBay Inc. acquiring Skype. eBay officially announced its intention to acquire Skype today, making the point of mentioning Skype, as a leader in online voice communications.

eBay changes the fee structure to the UK and Ireland sites starting September 29, 2005. eBay.co.uk, the maximum insertion fee for Multiple Item (Dutch) Auction and Fixed-Price listings are due to change from 2 pounds to 3 pounds (including VAT). The Buy It Now option on auctions will be changing from a standard fee of 6 pence to a tiered fee structure of 5 to 25 pence.