Half.com, the online marketplace owned by eBay Inc. that specialized in selling used CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, video games and books at bargain prices, is shutting down for good on August 31. And this ...

eBay plans to shutter its Half.com site next year, completing a long-standing plan to merge the online discount store with its popular auction site. eBay will retire the Half.com site and brand name ...

Half.com is a division of eBay after being acquired by the online commerce giant in June 2000 for $350 million, making the then-Conshohocken-based firm one of the largest tech exits in the ...

At least for now, Half.com will stay whole. eBay is backing off earlier plans to roll its popular fixed-price marketplace into eBay and rename it eBay Express Buys. While eBay will combine user ...

Online auction giant eBay won't be closing down its Half.com site next month after all. Bowing to resistance from the Half.com community, eBay said Thursday that it has dropped an earlier decision to ...

Half.com is expanding its bookshelves. The eBay-owned fixed-price marketplace has signed a deal with Abebooks.com, allowing Abebooks-affiliated dealers to offer their used, rare and collectible tomes ...

With Half.com’s new iPhone applications targeting back-to-school shoppers, eBay has debuted its first buying application that integrates bar code-scanning technology. The free Half.com application ...

EBay Inc. announced Thursday that it will keep its Half.com subsidiary open indefinitely, scrapping previous plans to shutter the e-commerce site in mid-October. EBay spokesman Hani Durzy said ...

HALFWAY, Ore. — It was a sign of the times. At the height of the dot-com craze, a Pennsylvania company persuaded Halfway, a small town in Eastern Oregon, to change its name to half.com to promote used ...