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just when you thought your inbox was safe now comes another Groupon clone I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update ebay has been quite busy this week the website just got an extreme makeover and started testing same-day delivery and now ebay announces it will be selling daily deals special offers like Groupon does ebay calls it lifestyle deals and it's just being tested now in a few markets the offers use the standard eBay page and you can even read feedback about a seller can the world handle another Groupon Cologne well even after all this time it seems ebay believes there's still some money making magic left in the concept are you a fan of daily deal offers share your experiences with a video comment on tout or sent an email update at cnet com and also on the topic of shopping have you heard of fab.com yet it's a shopping site that features unique products that are on sale for only a few days it already has about eight million users on the web and mobile but it's putting a much bigger focus right now on mobile right now about thirty three percent of fabs traffic is from the app but the company expects that to jump to half by the holidays fab launched brand new apps for Apple and Android devices and it's running a new 30-second commercial fab says it expects you to do 150 million dollars in sales this year there could be a big shake-up at sprint the carrier just confirmed in a statement it is talking with a Japanese mobile carrier called softbank about a substantial investment sprinted and say much else but the wall street journal published a report with sources saying that soft pink wanted to pay twelve point eight billion dollars to acquire sprint interesting over at verizon if you've been waiting for a new droid the new motorola razr HD and the RAZR MAXX HD will hit stores next week on october 18th google has rolled out a major update to Street View Google Maps has added street level images for 250,000 miles of road across 17 different countries Facebook gifts are now available to purchase through the android app birthday or celebration alerts are popping up on news feeds with a link to buy that person a gift it's a way for facebook to make money and Apple users will be able to buy gifts in the coming weeks and we're keeping our eye on a new photo sharing app called photoset this is made by tumblr but you don't need a Tumblr account to use it just pick the photos you want to group together it posts it on the photo set website and spits out a link to the photos so you can share them on a social network like Twitter or of course tumblr that's your tech news update for today you can get links to all today's stories at the blog sina com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey