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Online shopping giant eBay this morning announced it was the victim of a massive cyber attack, and has requested its 145 million users to change their passwords.

In separate announcements, two of China’s most innovative websites have announced they will list on the US stock market. The world is changing.

Online accounting software company Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks, has appointed its first Country Manager and Managing Director for Australia to lead what it says is its “rapidly expanding” presence in the Australian market.

Australia's many avid sports fans are being warned not to join the other 500,000 Australians who have been scammed by dodgy ticket resellers in the past 12 months.

Mobile payments specialist Mint Wireless has made three senior executive appointments.

Any company with over 40% market share must be doing something right, and e-commerce platform Magento seems extremely well placed to take advantage of Aussies' obsession with online shopping.

Online retail giant eBay today announced that its advertising network business, Shopping.com, has been re-launched as the eBay Commerce Network.

Australian web-hosting provider Anchor has announced a partnership with Los Angeles based Magento, a subsidiary of eBay and a leading eCommerce platform provider.

Internode has added NodeMobile mobile phone plans to its product roster, offering a generous amount of social media specific data.

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has handed in his resignation after further evidence emerged that he deliberately misstated his academic credentials, according to a News Limited report. Thompson, who was the president of eBay before his current role at the troubled Internet giant, could face termination without any severance pay because his bio wrongly stated that he has a computer science degree.

Macquarie Telecom has appointed Art Leyzerovich as its general manager for emerging technologies, hosting.

Australian eBay sellers did very well in 2011, with the top 2,000 of them growing revenue by 45 percent, and with the global eCommerce giant heralding the fact that there were 157 millionaires trading on its eBay.com.au service last year, an increase of 31 percent over 2010.

Mobile commerce will reach a tipping point in 2012 in Australia, with eBay reporting that a mobile device is already used to make a purchase on its site every 15 seconds. The most expensive item bought from a mobile app in Australia last year was a men's watch for $21,500.

Clearly piqued at the prospect of nimbler rivals encroaching on its territory Australia Post has announced it will launch a digital mailbox service sometime later this year and that it is planning to open a total of 30 superstores where people can pick up physical mail or parcels around the clock.

eBay, Australia Post and PayPal, have joined forces to launch the eBay Shipping Report which reviews global best practice and how Australian domestic shipping services measure up on a global scale.

PayPal is about to eat even more of the banks' lunch with the release of a free app and dongle that turns a smartphone into an Eftpos device.

Big data is going to prove the next major frontier for ICT researchers who stand poised on the 'cusp of a new age of wonder' according to Hugh Durrant-Whyte, chief executive of NICTA. The national research organisation is currently refining a tool, called Scoobi, now being tested by a range of organisations, including eBay, which allows rapid analysis of massive collections of distributed data.

The Australian retail landscape is something of a wasteland as far as e-commerce is concerned, with bricks and mortar companies still scrambling to get online. For eBay it represents a sweet opportunity as the company prepares to make its cloud based x.commerce fabric , or middleware, widely available at the end of next month.

Following the reporting of a dispute as to the authenticity of an antique violin, PayPal demanded the buyer destroy the item and provide photographic proof.  At least it wasn't a goldfish or a puppy.