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Talent Auction.


There's hope for the thousands of recently laid off dot-com (1) Refers to the period (dot) followed by the abbreviation of the commercial domain (.com) at the end of an Internet address. Since the .com domain is so widely used, the Internet became known as the "dot-com" world, and dot-com companies are those formed to offer services or  staffers who want to stay together as a team.

A group of South Carolina-based techies who lost their jobs at a company called Home Account Networks Inc. auctioned themselves off as a group for hire at online auction site eBay (eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.ebay.com) The major auction service on the Web. eBay popularized the concept of buying and selling online, and both individuals and commercial enterprises list items for sale.  Inc. The group advertised itself on eBay for $1 million, which stirred interest from several online banking outfits.

They're they're  

Contraction of they are.

they're be
 not alone. In response to growing interest, eBay recently added a professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  category to its site.
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Title Annotation:Home Account Networks Inc. techs auction themselves for hire on eBay
Comment:Talent Auction.(Home Account Networks Inc. techs auction themselves for hire on eBay)
Author:IBOLD, HANS
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jun 18, 2001
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