Online auction site eBay extended an open offer to purchase Craigslist last year, according to court documents released Wednesday. EBay owned a little more than a quarter of Craigslist's shares at the ...

In a skirmish between two Internet heavy hitters with a tangled relationship, eBay Inc. has convinced a court that it was wronged by antitakeover moves adopted by Craigslist after eBay started ...

Craigslist has filed a countersuit against eBay, alleging that the auction site used its minority stake in Craigslist to engage in unfair and unlawful anticompetitive behavior, false advertising, ...

GEORGETOWN, Del. -- Employees of Internet auction site eBay shared confidential information gained from Craigslist with other employees developing eBay's own online classifieds business, an eBay ...

The legal tussle between Craigslist and eBay escalated today with the revelation that Craigslist has filed a countersuit alleging that eBay engaged in unfair competition, false advertising, trademark ...

With good first quarter results and stellar performance of its PayPal unit, the eBay (EBAY) of 2010 is a far cry from the foundering mess it was a year ago, when the company was hemorrhaging buyers ...

When rich people sue rich people, it often seems that the only possible winners can be rich people. Which perhaps doesn't engage the emotions of spectators quite as much as, say, when rich people are ...

Craigslist officials were caught off guard when told in 2007 that their minority shareholder, eBay, was going to compete directly with them in the online classifieds business in the U.S., an attorney ...

EBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) has gone public with the details of its lawsuit against Craigslist and its two shareholders Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster. While suit details alleged self-dealing by Newmark ...

In the U.S., the online classifieds space has been dominated for years by Craigslist, despite its failure to adapt to newer technologies, including mobile. That has left room for newcomers to angle ...

eBay has released a copy of its complaint against Craigslist (document above). eBay lodged the lawsuit last week in the Delaware Court of Chancery claiming that Craigslist executives took actions that ...

Craigslist's CEO Jim Buckmaster believes that eBay's lawsuit is an exercise in hypocrisy, in no small part because the online auction giant has taken many of the same measures Craigslist did in order ...