{"id":608513,"date":"2009-12-03T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Craigslist-and-eBay-Headed-for-the-Court-Room-Next-Week-128718.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-03T05:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:58:00","slug":"craigslist-and-ebay-headed-for-the-court-room-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/608513","title":{"rendered":"Craigslist and eBay Headed for the Court Room Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craigslist and eBay are heading for all-out war as the two companies are preparing to fight it out in a lawsuit filed by the auctions site set to begin next Monday. The lawsuit is the culmination of a tense relationship between the two companies which has been going for more than five years now. eBay owns a minority stake in the privately-held Craigslist, the reason behind the dispute. The company is also saying that it plans to expand its classified offerings with acquisitions or partnerships in several countries. <\/p>\n

eBay bought a stake in Craigslist in 2004 from one of the original investors, initially owning a 28.4 percent slice of the company. Despite initial claims that it would focus on Craigslist in the classified ads market, it later launched a competitor to the site, Kijiji, using inside knowledge it gained as a shareholder at Craigslist, the classifieds company says. This is the object of another lawsuit filed by Craigslist for unfair competition and other claims. <\/p>\n

In 2007, after the launch of Kijiji in the US, Craigslist diluted eBay’s stake in the company to just 24.85 percent, losing its seat on the board in the process, a move which eBay claims was made using various illegal tactics. It filed a lawsuit as a consequence and, after two delays, the legal proceedings are about to s… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craigslist and eBay are heading for all-out war as the two companies are preparing to fight it out in a lawsuit filed by the auctions site set to begin next Monday. The lawsuit is the culmination of a tense relationship between the two companies which has been going for more than five years now. eBay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2yiJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}