Archive for April 24th, 2006

  • Keira Knightley’s 2006 Oscar Dress on eBay

    Bid in Oxfam’s Exclusive Auction for the East Africa Food Crisis

    Keira Knightley was the star of the red carpet at the Oscars in a deep-claret taffeta silk gown designed by Vera Wang. She has now very generously offered this custom made dress to Oxfam to auction, with all proceeds going to support Oxfam’s […]

  • Google a threat to Paypal

    e-commerce:
    There’s a popular saying that goes “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This applies to business, war and cheesy reality TV show contestants. It now applies to eBay. A Wall Street Journal article today revealed the auction behemoth is getting more and more nervous over Google’s foray into the e-commerce sphere. How nervous? […]

  • Will PS3 Retailers Scalp On eBay?

    PS3news:
    Remember the stories about how hard it was to find an Xbox 360 in the early days? Oddly enough, Microsoft’s next-gen console couldn’t be found in local stores, and yet there were excesses on eBay, selling for much more than the retail price. How could such a thing happen?
    Easy.
    Some devious retailers were simply hoarding their […]

  • eBay growth may be slowing

    Bloomberg:
    Shares of eBay, the world’s largest auctioneer, fell Thursday the most in more than a year after the company gave a disappointing outlook for 2006, signaling that growth may be slowing.
    Profit may be 7 cents less than Wall Street expectations, eBay said Wednesday after U.S. markets closed. Annual sales may rise to $5.9 billion, said […]

  • eBay bows to Alibaba in China

    SFGate:

    EBay has little hope of capturing a bigger share of the Chinese online auction market despite bankrolling a major expansion there, according to the company’s chief Chinese rival.
    Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba.com, China’s leading Internet marketplace, said that early mistakes by eBay have made it difficult for the company to gain traction in […]