text: Google and eBay in furious dust-up | Business | The Guardian
  Thursday 14 June 2007 07.49 EDT
  First published on Thursday 14 June 2007 07.49 EDT
  There is nothing more enraging than a clash in social diaries, as two of Silicon Valley's top firms have just discovered. A decision by Google to hold a party in the middle of an eBay conference has prompted a furious dust-up between the two technology companies.
  The face-off ended with Google hurriedly cancelling its party. In a statement on its Google Checkout blog, the company said attendees had "plenty of other activities to keep them busy" in Boston: "After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference."