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• Ebay alleges Amazon poached sellers from its platform

  Ebay has accused Amazon.com of trying to poach sellers for its own platform through Ebay's internal messaging system.

• Gumtree hires Roisin Parkes as first female CTO

  Gumtree Australia has tapped Roisin Parkes as its first female chief technology officer to be the ‘voice of the technology team’ and to drive the next phase of growth.

• ​Google wheels out big name customers at San Fran gabfest

  Google recruited several big name customers including international bank, HSBC, to discuss their cloud implementations at its annual San Francisco gabfest as the Silicon Valley giant looks to convince enterprises to shift their core systems to its cloud platform.

• Bigcommerce strikes integration deal with eBay

  Online retailers across Australia and New Zealand will be able to access tens of millions of new potential customers using a multi-channel selling model, following a partnership between Bigcommerce and eBay Australia.

• A new tool for pricing used IT equipment

  An electronics recycler has created an IT products database representing 9,000 manufacturers and 11 million equipment models. The products range from consumer to business equipment, such as network storage devices, routers, switches, as well as servers, PCs and office machines.

• EBay to sell its enterprise unit four years after buying it

  EBay has reached a deal to sell its enterprise unit, a division focused on building and running online shopping sites for bricks-and-mortar retailers, for less than half than it paid four years ago.

• Facebook and Google dominate time spent with mobile apps

  The battle for mobile social supremacy is largely a two-horse race these days as Facebook and Google combine to claim one of every four minutes U.S. users spend on mobile devices, according to a report released this week by Forrester Research. Forrester tracked the app use of 1,721 adult smartphone users in the U.S. during the three-month period ending in December 2014.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, June 24

  Ford drives into car-sharing... U.S. government ranked last on app security... Google intros free music streaming... and more tech news.

• Amazon, eBay, Etsy to remove Confederate flag merchandise

  Amazon, eBay and Etsy have joined big retailers in removing Confederate flags and related items from their sites, in moves responding to increased vitriol over the symbol after a shooting last week at an African-American church in South Carolina.

• eBay sells stake in Craigslist, which responds with Shakespeare quote

  EBay has sold its 28.4 percent ownership stake in Craigslist as part of an agreement between the companies announced Friday .

• China opens up its e-commerce market to 100 percent foreign ownership

  China is opening up its e-commerce market to more foreign investment, removing restrictions that limited investors to joint ventures with Chinese firms.

• FCC says PayPal 'robocall' policy could break rules

  The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has cautioned PayPal that provisions in its new user agreement for contacting customers with autodialed or prerecorded calls and text messages could violate federal laws.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, June 11

  Google gets on smart cities bandwagon... eBay, PayPal hit a nerve with robocall provision in use terms... Spotify arms for battle with Apple... and more tech news.

• The Aussie start-up with a culture you would kill for

  David Gee takes a walk around Atlassian’s Sydney digs and discovers a few things about how to create winning products and keep customers.

• 13 best companies for female IT pros

  One key to recruiting and retaining more women in technology is representation: Organizations with women in visible leadership positions tend to attract other women. To recognize firms that both measure and actively work to change underrepresentation of women, the Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance women in computing, released this month its annual list of top companies for women technologists leadership index.