In a presentation at the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition in San Jose, Gary Briggs, chief marketing officer at eBay said online retailers should think more outside the box.

“eBay Says Online Retailers Need To Innovate”

A Trojan that arrives by email targets potential car buyers at eBay Motors, and attempts to closely imitate a legitimate auction.

A new threat against visitors to eBay Motors from a Trojan attempts to use a man in the middle attack that seems to do more than just phish a username and password from people.

Affiliates with online marketplace eBay feed the site visitors, and the people they pass along who register and buy on eBay add up to profits for the website and for the affiliates too.

CRM Magazine has a great article that answers many questions about corporate blogs and online reputation monitoring.

The world’s largest automaker announced yesterday they would eliminate 25,000 jobs from their rolls, mostly through attrition as a number of employees approach retirement. The move by the once might GM would save $2.5 billion annually according the report presented by GM chief, Rick Wagoner at the annual stockholders’ meeting.

Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry held a rally at the State’s Capitol to show his support for the General Motors Oklahoma City Assembly Plant.

General Motors reported a loss of $1.1 billion, or $1.95 per share for consolidated net income for the first quarter of 2005.

Since General Motors began the GM FastLane Blog in early January, it’s attracted considerable attention from business communicators. That attention has been sparked by who the bloggers are – senior corporate executives, starting with GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.

Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz interviewed Michael Wiley from General Motors about the future impact of blogs, RSS feeds, and podcasting.

Mitsubishi Motors is compensating DaimlerChrysler for losses on its investment in Mitsubishi’s truck business caused by defect cover-ups.

General Motors’ Vice Chairman, Bob Lutz, is not the only one blogging The FastLane Blog, GM’s executive blog.

Mitsubishi Motors is getting a lifeline of $5.25 billion from its affiliated companies, after getting $4.8 billion just 8 months ago.