Archive for February 9th, 2006

  • Gigayacht Sold on eBay?

    Forbes:
    See if you can work this out. A press release appears today claiming Fort Lauderdale based 4Yacht has sold a 405-foot steel megayacht on eBay, believed to be the most expensive item ever sold on the Internet auction site.
    In fact, the as-yet-unbuilt yacht is so big, it’s actually a “Gigayacht”, the press release adds, […]

  • eBay Seller Wants Your iPod

    Fast Company:
    NextWorth, an eBay store, is making a big move in used iPods. They will buy your iPod off of you to sell on eBay. While you may make more auctioning it yourself, for those people who do not have the time nor want to take the trouble it may be a great alternative.
    With […]

  • The eBay of Coders

    Fast Company:
    In 2001, Ippolito created Rent A Coder with the idea of helping his supplicants find qualified software developers to take on their little jobs. In just over three years, the site–a sort of eBay for software projects–has exploded, attracting a cumulative 45,000 buyers who’ve posted projects and 121,000 coders around the globe offering to […]

  • Pay Pal - eBay - Google

    thirdsquare:
    It’s quite obvious now that eBay is feeling pressure coming from the headquarters of Google. Last May Google announced that they themselves are going to come out with an online payment system such as eBay owned PayPal. Within moments of learning about it, PayPal president Jeff Jordan has started to monitor any talks and chats […]

  • What’s Pay Pal?

    Jennifer Inc.:
    On CNN’s Situation Room, furry spokesmodel Wolf “So Black� Blitzer handed off to cranky grandpa Jack Cafferty for his report on programs designed to pay drug addicts to stay clean.
    Cafferty read viewers’ emails on the topic. One budding comic wrote, “I am addicted to chili dogs and they’re making me fat. You gotta stop […]