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The competition watchdog has flagged its intention to scuttle a plan by online auctioneer eBay to force its Australian users on to a PayPal-only payments system.
Citing concerns about the "anti-competitive effect" of the proposal, the chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Graeme Samuel, has issued a statement calling on eBay to delay implementation of the plan, which was supposed to take effect from next Tuesday.
eBay’s proposal would have required items bought and sold on the site to be paid for using PayPal, which eBay owns.
Although cash on delivery or pick-up would still be acceptable, direct bank deposits, cheques and money orders would all be barred.
The move would have lumbered sellers with extra costs as PayPal charges a fee to accept payments via the service. This would be in addition to auction charges.
Many eBay users are unhappy about the proposal and have been venting their opposition to the move on the eBay discussion boards.
In addition, the ACCC has received a number of objections to the proposal from rivals, other providers of payment services, merchants and users.
Facebook has unveiled revamped profile pages to make the hot social networking website faster, less cluttered and more spam-resistant.
The new design lets Facebook members use tabs to give priority to fresh pictures, messages, or "feeds" on main profile pages and compartmentalise mini-applications and "static" information such as curriculum vitae.
The changes are motivated by feedback from users, as well as the trend of people flooding the internet with digital content such as videos, pictures, and musings they want to instantly share, according to Facebook vice president of marketing Chamath Palihapitiya.
"We want to make sure it is easy for people to push and pull information in the form of bite-size content rather quickly," Palihapitiya said while unveiling the redesign at Facebook’s office in Palo Alto, California.
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