The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is scrutinising eBay’s £7 billion deal with Norwegian business, Adevinta, as part of a crackdown on digital monopolies. The deal involves the sale of eBay’s classified ads division to Adevinta for £1.8 billion in cash and 44 per cent of the combined firm. The deal includes Gumtree and Motors.co.uk,
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Last year online retail sales were up 12.1% on average year-on-year, but it can be difficult for buyers and sellers to know where to begin in the huge online marketplace that includes vast ecommerce businesses like Amazon, Alibaba and eBay. To help inform and inspire where to begin, Journalistic.org recommends some online marketplace alternatives. To
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Trademark and Rights holders Against Piracy (TRAP) has announced that it has issued over one million copyright and trademark notices of infringement against sellers accused of online piracy in less than four years. Commercial merchandise piracy costs the industry more than £375 million in lost sales each year. Online platforms are a major target, Household
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Alan Monahan writes: Call me Captain Grumpy, but I’m not a fan of fast-approaching Halloween. We don’t get much trick or treating where I live, but it’s still curtains drawn and lights out in our house to deter little kids from begging for sweets when they should be safely tucked up in bed or playing
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Selfridges claims that the pre-Halloween launch of its Christmas window in London’s Oxford Street is a first for any department store worldwide. Some 1,000 metres of red velvet have been used for its ‘With Love From’ theme. Inflation has been blamed for a fall in UK retail sales in September. The Office for National Statistics
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Etail giant eBay has set up a social-media driven pop-up shop in Covent Garden, London, in he hope of maximising sales opportunities over what is expected to be its busiest online shopping weekend. The shop is due to open on Friday November 30 and will operate until Sunday December 2. EBay is counting on the
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