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At $30,000 on eBay, the PIPE DREAMS Computer Station is “made with a Plastic Nylon Connection System isolating the heat transfer for each hardware component, from one another, promoting cooler systems over all.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery. PIPE DREAMS incorporates a Wall of Fans System. It pulls the heat from [...]

Silicon Valley legend and now VC Marc Andreessen was making the interview rounds after the settlement between the litigation-addled co-founders of Skype and all the various people they were suing was announced this morning. He has been tight-lipped until now, due to the morass of lawsuits. But, as Andreessen told BoomTown in a phone interview [...]

Currently at $290,100 on eBay, this Ferrari F430 GT2 “ran partially the 2008 American Le Mans season in the GT category — finished 4th in Sebring.” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery. The engine in the car is the original engine #61 and had been rebuilt by Michelotto once. Since the rebuild [...]

A lot of merchants are behind prospective sales because they simply will not accept any credit cards mainly because of the fear of charge backs. If certain steps are taken the possibility of charge backs are eliminated. A lot of this can be learned by reading the terms and conditions of any merchant agreement as [...]

According to several sources close to the situation, barring any unforeseen delay, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. [UPDATE: The paperwork is taking longer than expected, so sit tight, said sources.] While the massive agreement–which will settle three aggressive lawsuits lobbed by [...]

Amazon shares hit an all-time record — Today’s $118.49 price is higher than the $400-plus days of 1999, because of splits in the years since. Today’s share price would be about $700 without the splits, says the Wall Street Journal. The Journal hauled out Mary Meeker, a big booster of Amazon and other dot-com stocks [...]

According to sources close to the situation, Index Ventures and Michelangelo Volpi are out of the deal to buy Skype–and their lawsuit-loving nemeses, the founders of the Internet telephony service, are in. Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis had sued Index and partner Michelangelo Volpi via tech companies they control, Joltid and Joost. The [...]