Craigslist criminals creep on cash customers

While Craigslist refuses to loosen its grip on location-based listing browsers PadMapper and 3Taps, it has begun testing new mapping features of its own. According to Talking Points Memo, the companyTwo more people have been robbed at gunpoint in Oakland after responding to Craigslist ads, continuing a string of such robberies targeting would-be online buyers and sellers, police warned Saturday.Craigslist has been granted the appointment of a so-called discovery referee to jump-start its ongoing litigation with eBay Inc. over the Internet-auction giant's alleged scheme to pilfer

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