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eBay app meets augmented reality

Links from Wednesday's episode of Loaded:

A new augmented-reality app lets you see what around you is for sale on eBay as you walk down the street

Google lets you manage multiple Gmail accounts from one Gmail login

Microsoft's Kin gets canned by Verizon, finally

Google purchases a company called Zetawire that allows mobile phone payments using near field communication technology

A computer named Watson is going to compete on Jeopardy

Google Voice will learn your speech patterns better using personalized recognition on Android phones

Google Voice also comes to the iPad

3G baby monitor

Links from Friday's episode of Loaded:

Amazon invests in Living Social while rumors persist that Google wants to purchase Groupon

eBay purchases local shopping site Milo.com

Google Earth Engine launches with 25 years of archived satellite imagery

Google Doodles are now available on mobile searches

A new version of Rock Band is out for iPad and iPhone

A Pennsylvania couple is awarded $1 in a trespassing case against Google

The Wi-Fi Baby 3G will help you monitor your little ones--and big ones--while you're away

Gifting on eBay, Amazon through Facebook

Links from Wednesday's episode of Loaded:

eBay launches Group Gifts, a way for friends to chip in to buy other friends expensive itemsWe could see Google's Chrome operating system as early as this yearApple lengthens the time of sampling music from 30 to 90 seconds. You can now buy your Facebook friends Amazon gift cardsMicrosoft removes 3D in favor of "Bird's Eye" in Bing MapsGoogle crowdsources its security efforts, offering cash to anyone who identifies a vulnerabiltyGoogle settles its class action suit involving Google Buzz

Buzz Out Loud 1341: The Power of Tong (podcast)

It's "Glee" meets BOL! Ok, no, don't panic, there's not that much singing. But it's Brian Tong's first day in the co-host chair, and we are having a good time. Off the rails. In the news today: Facebook app developers were evidently selling your personally identifiable information, which Facebook could barely be bothered to punish them for. Also, group gifting on eBay and a new low in "journalism" junkets. --Molly

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How to sell your stuff on eBay

Got some old stuff you want to get rid of? CNET Editor Josh Lowensohn shows you how to do it using eBay.

eBay CEO says not sorry company bought (and sold) Skype

RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif.--eBay chief executive John Donahoe on Wednesday defended both the decision to buy Skype as well as the company's later move to sell most of its stake in the Web telephony firm.

"It was an acquisition I'm not sorry we made," Donahoe said at the D: All Things Digital conference. "Taking risk is one of the things you have to do in an uncertain Internet (environment)."

eBay, he said, thought Skype could reduce friction by connecting buyers and sellers more directly. "It turns out Skype is a fantastic way … Read more

iPad is hot on eBay, but for how long?

Last week I did the unthinkable. I sold my iPad on eBay.

Was it a case of buyer's remorse? There was some of that, sure. But more than anything it was due to Apple's returns and exchanges policy, which gives buyers two weeks (instead of the more typical 30 days) to change their mind. And if it's been opened, you have to pay a fairly standard 10 percent restocking fee, which for the iPad can range from $60 to $83, depending on what model you got.

To be fair, I knew about these limitations upfront. So, being … Read more

eBay's forecast disappoints Wall Street

First-quarter earnings for eBay exceeded analysts' estimates, but the company's tepid second-quarter forecast appears to have turned investors' stomachs.

Shares in the eBay slid 7 percent Wednesday after the company said it expects profit of between 37 cents and 39 cents a share in the current quarter--short of the 40 cents a share the Street was expecting.

And a disappointing full-year outlook didn't help matters. As BGC Partners analyst Colin Gillis observed, "The expectations for a monster quarter are not materializing."

Still, the company did beat the Street in its latest quarter, reporting earnings of 42 … Read more

Why is eBay logo in Whitman ad?

You know when something doesn't seem quite right to you? Like hot pants on a bloodhound? Or the chemical makeup of most human beings who live in Marin County, California?

Something didn't seem quite right to me the other day when I watched the campaign ad that purports to tell you why former eBay CEO Meg Whitman will remove some of the tarnish from the Golden State. (You know, the one that forgets to mention she's a Republican.)

It's not that this ad showed Whitman crunking in a nightclub. Or that it showed her showering admiration … Read more