In this April 14, 2005 file photo, Craigslist. org CEO Jim Buckmaster, left, and founder Craig Newmark, center, are photographed outside of their office in San Francisco. Craigslist countersued its minority owner, eBay Inc., on Tuesday, alleging the online auctioneer is competing illegally with the classified advertising Web site. Craigslist's complaint, filed in Superior Court in San Francisco, claims eBay broke laws in a series of actions relating to its own classifieds site Kijiji, which launched last year in the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO - MARCH 21: Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark (L) and Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, pose in front of the Craigslist office March 21, 2006 in San Francisco, California. Craig Newmark, a former computer programmer, started craigslist.org in 1995 as an e-mailed dispatch to friends of local San Francisco jobs and apartment vacancies. Craigslist has now grown to the worlds largest source of online classifieds reaching over 6 million people a month in over 75 countries which has greatly hurt newspaper revenues that relied on income generated from classified ads. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Craig Newmark;Jim Buckmaster
SAN FRANCISCO - MARCH 21: Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark (L) and Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, pose in front of the Craigslist office March 21, 2006 in San Francisco, California. Craig Newmark, a former computer programmer, started craigslist.org in 1995 as an e-mailed dispatch to friends of local San Francisco jobs and apartment vacancies. Craigslist has now grown to the worlds largest source of online classifieds reaching over 6 million people a month in over 75 countries which has greatly hurt newspaper revenues that relied on income generated from classified ads. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Craig Newmark;Jim Buckmaster
SAN FRANCISCO - MARCH 21: Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark (L) and Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, pose in front of the Craigslist office March 21, 2006 in San Francisco, California. Craig Newmark, a former computer programmer, started craigslist.org in 1995 as an e-mailed dispatch to friends of local San Francisco jobs and apartment vacancies. Craigslist has now grown to the worlds largest source of online classifieds reaching over 6 million people a month in over 75 countries which has greatly hurt newspaper revenues that relied on income generated from classified ads. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Craig Newmark;Jim Buckmaster