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Kijiji's owner was also a minority shareholder in Craigslist.In April 2008, eBay launched a lawsuit against Craigslist claiming that their executives were attempting to weaken eBay's investment, while in May of the same year, Craigslist filed a counter suit claiming Kijiji had stolen trade secrets and that eBay used misleading tactics to promote the service.
VarageSale was founded by Tami Zuckerman, an elementary school teacher living in Montreal, Quebec.While pregnant with her first child, she asked her husband Carl Mercier, a programmer, to improve on the experience of buying and selling items over social networks.
32-year-old Tim Bosma was a Canadian from Ancaster, a small community within the city of Hamilton, Ontario. [16] Bosma had not previously known Millard or Smich. [17] The pair contacted Bosma by phone to arrange a test drive of a pickup truck he had been selling online on Kijiji. [18]
Another, targeting the elderly, claims a free medical alert device has been ordered for a patient by a family member or medical doctor. An automated message says "that someone has ordered a free medical alert system for you, and this call is to confirm shipping instructions" before the call is transferred to a live operator who requests the ...
American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. is an American clothing and accessories retailer headquartered at SouthSide Works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.It was founded in 1977 by brothers Jerry and Mark Silverman as a subsidiary of Retail Ventures, Inc., a company that also owned and operated Silverman's Menswear.
A person dumpster diving Video of impoverished individuals "dumpster diving" at a neighborhood trash dump in Kabul. Dumpster diving (also totting, [1] skipping, [2] skip diving or skip salvage [3] [4]) is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers for unused items discarded by their owners but deemed useful to the picker.
Opened in 1971, with renovations in 1990, the museum is professionally curated and features Ski-Doos, other industrial designs, and a selection of books, booklets and other items of interest to snowmobile enthusiasts. [33] The museum includes the original garage "factory" where the first snowmobile was built.
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...