Attendees included Indra Nooyi from Pepsi, Gary Kelly from Southwest, Steve Ballmer from Microsoft and Craig, Craig Newmark from Craigslist.

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In April, eBay sued Craigslist, alleging Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark and Chief Executive Jim Buckmaster spearheaded "clandestine transactions" in an effort to unfairly dilute eBay's stake.

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"Google, because of the way it stores things, can perpetuate a problem, " says founder Craig Newmark, who recently spent an afternoon chasing a user who wrote six nasty messages about a neighbor.

FORBES: Google Me Not

Oodle already includes eBay listings, but Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has told Craig Donato to steer clear of his site's listings, saying they are not meant to be used as commodities for commercial purposes.

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The group says it has the support of some big names on the Web, including WordPress, craigslist founder Craig Newmark, Reddit, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Cheezburger Network, which owns several humor blogs.

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The bills "supposedly address real needs, but in practice are means by which bad actors (with lots of money and lawyers) can take sites down, " Craig Newmark, founder of the online classified-ad site Craigslist, wrote in a blog post Monday.

WSJ: Web Piracy Bill Faces Fiercer Fight

Their company, Summit Series, has managed in less than three years to put together a handful of conferences that attract thousands of young, influential attendees and star panels of billionaires ( Ted Turner), philanthropists (Wendy Kopp) and disrupters ( Craig Newmark).

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Respondents include everyone from Craig Newmark, the founder of Craigslist, to folks from top universities and government agencies, as well as companies like Google, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Yahoo, Intel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Ericsson Research, Nokia and The New York Times.

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