In an article titled "Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War", Brad Stone writes for the Sunday New York Times about the ecommerce competition between Amazon.com and eBay.

Stone writes: "Amazon has accelerated its courtship of small online vendors, allowing them to sell on its site — becoming more like eBay. And eBay, desperate to revive itself, has decided to emphasize traditional, fixed-price sales of both new and old merchandise — becoming more like Amazon."

In a move that could change the cost dynamics of online banking use of SMS-based mobile text services, CNET reports

The Federal Reserve Board on Sunday announced its "approval of the application and notice under sections 3 and 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Wells Fargo & Company, San Francisco, California, to acquire Wachovia Corporation and its subsidiary banks, Wachovia Bank, National Association, both of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Wachovia Bank Delaware, National Association, Wilmington, Delaware, and the nonbanking subsidiaries of Wachovia Corporation."

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