Archive for June 7th, 2006

 Red herring

Yahoo acquired a 10 percent stake in Gmarket on Wednesday, paying $60 million to Oak Investment Partners, a venture firm that owns most of the popular South Korean e-commerce and auction site.

 
Despite Yahoo and eBay’s recent alliance to defend against Google in the United States, Yahoo has been aggressively competing with eBay in Asian countries [...]

 Red herring

Yahoo acquired a 10 percent stake in Gmarket on Wednesday, paying $60 million to Oak Investment Partners, a venture firm that owns most of the popular South Korean e-commerce and auction site.

 
Despite Yahoo and eBay’s recent alliance to defend against Google in the United States, Yahoo has been aggressively competing with eBay in Asian countries [...]

 InformationWeek
PayPal this weekend plans to unveil a community site that targets developers who integrate the online payment service into third-party Web sites.
PayPal plans to launch the new developer community at the EBay Developers Conference this weekend in Las Vegas, Nev., Tim Villanueva, general manager of the PayPal Platform, said Monday. PayPal is a unit of [...]

 United Press International
A U.S. Navy sailor who got drunk in San Francisco and lost his peacoat in March 1941 has located it in Belgium through the Internet.
Tony Gellepis, 85, recalls the night he was on liberty, and even the bar he was in when he took off the double-breasted dark blue coat with two rows [...]

 DigiTimes systems

PChome Online, a leading web portal in Taiwan, on June 5 announced that it will set up a joint venture with eBay to establish a brand-new local on-line auction service to replace PChome’s existing on-line auction channel and eBay’s Taiwan auction web site by the end of this year.
PChome chairman Hung-tze Jan signed the [...]

 techblog

Looks like a good thing can never last. Everyone’s favorite VoIP company Skype which is owned by Ebay has just been sued by Net2Phone alleging that Skype has infringed its patent for the placing of calls over the net.
The law suit, filed in the US District court of Newark, alleges that Skype infringed a patent [...]

Auctionbytes:
Janelle Elms is an eBay University instructor, author of numerous books about eBay, and creator and teacher of the highly successful eBay 101 and 102 classes taught nationwide. A Silver PowerSeller on eBay, Janelle specializes in coaching individuals and companies how to build successful eBay businesses and maximize their profits. Janelle considers herself an eBay [...]