What do Apple, Google and Facebook have in common? Besides leading their markets, they’ve all been unafraid of abandoning their first logos when their companies needed rebranding. Below, five more companies that need to follow this lead.

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Someday, banks may try to assess the credit risk of borrowers via “responsibility” scores based on unconventional metrics like school grades or eBay reputations
As bankers claw their way out of the credit crunch, they’re likely to get a lot more curious about our ability to repay loans. To do that, they’ll no doubt search [...]

I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again: eBay has reached its nadir. The once might giant is now facing competition not only from Craigslist but from online forums and shops where experts in their field, be it photography equipment to watches, are buying and selling to an informed audience. In short the economy [...]

eBay (EBAY) is finally acknowledging its new reality and cutting its global workforce by 10% (1000 employees plus temps and open job reqs). The company got fat during its salad days, and now that buyers and sellers are fleeing to Amazon, Google, et al, these cuts are long overdue.  Unless the company can rapidly begin [...]

eBay launched a new browser extension tool tonight that lets you highlight different products in Firefox or Internet Explorer and compare the pricing of those products on eBay. The tool also includes Skype functionality, which will let you click on a number in your browser and call it directly via Skype.

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Pros figure that the Web auction pioneer is undervalued, especially as earnings prospects improve in coming quarters.

Put it on eBay!
That’s become a stock phrase for anyone who wants to sell stuff. It also demonstrates how much the name eBay (EBAY) has morphed into a generic term for an online auction marketplace where people get to [...]