eBay to Layoff Blackthorne Development Team

[mandy]

In a further step toward consolidating its operations, eBay is moving development and support of eBay Blackthorne listing software in-house to San Jose and is laying off the Blackthorne development team. The tool was developed independently in 1998 by Blackthorne Software, which eBay acquired in 1999 (the developer supposedly had had plans to make the tool compatible with Yahoo Auctions and Amazon Auctions before the acquisition). The Pennsylvania-based unit has continued to support the software, originally called AuctionAssistant...

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