Archive for June 19th, 2006

Mobile Burn 
Mobile eCommerce experts, Atseta Inc., announced the release of Sell it Mobile—eBay edition (www.sell-it-mobile.com), the first comprehensive mobile auction tool for online sellers. Sell it Mobile allows users to create and manage auctions on eBay using their mobile phones.
“Sell it Mobile is in response to the millions of eBay sellers who demand simpler and […]

 Web Pro News
For eBay auction bidders tired of losing out to last-minute snipers whilst running errands (or whatever may pull your attention from the computer), VeriSign and eBay announced an agreement to deliver mobile alerts via SMS from VeriSign’s Intelligent Messaging Network (VIMN).
VeriSign’s network, which delivers some 3 billion SMS messages per month, will allow […]

 Ecommerce Guide
No doubt about it, Wes Shepherd knows a lot about selling on eBay.
The Chicago-based entrepreneur launched a high-volume eBay business called Channel Velocity in 2003. He sells on consignment, auctioning the overstocked and returned items of well-known retailers such as Canon and Phillips.
Shepherd handles large lots of items — for example, hundreds of Italian […]

 FT.com
Mergers between big internet companies are unlikely in the short term because of difficulties combining brands, says Meg Whitman, Ebay chief executive.
However, online conglomerates operating under different brand names could eventually emerge, she said.

Ms Whitman said Ebay, whose purchase of Skype was the biggest internet deal last year, would continue to look at acquisitions, though […]

 Auction Bytes
The eBay Live conference guide shows pages and pages of information about all the classes, lectures and networking sessions going on, and sometimes it seems overwhelming. There is certainly no lack of content at eBay Live, and often times the challenge is choosing between two classes you want to attend at the same time.
For […]

ECommerce Guide 
As the fifth annual eBay Live conference came to an end, it’s safe to say the three-day auction-fest was a success.
eBay unveiled several appealing new initiatives. Its Skype Me tool will allow real-time buyer-seller conversation, its Member Blogs and eBay Wiki will foster community, and its AdContext program is sure to boost eBay’s already […]

Washington Post 
That was Alibaba.com Corp., the parent of eBay’s main auction rival in China, Taobao.
Alibaba set up shop inside a restaurant at the Mandalay Bay resort, where the eBay convention was held, and offered free lunch to eBay sellers who stopped by to learn about Alibaba’s products.

Alibaba wooed eBay sellers from a restaurant at the […]

 Money Control
Online payment portal PayPal over the weekend fixed a flaw in its Web site. Some enterprising hackers were exploiting the flaw by redirecting people from a PayPal Web page to an online trap located in South Korea. The page actually had a real PayPal URL, but hosted malicious code that presented a message, warning […]

 Information Week
Internet search leader Google Inc. is testing a system that aims to speed purchases online but bears no resemblance to the popular PayPal payments service of Web auctioneer eBay , Google’s chief executive said Thursday.
Analysts had recently speculated whether Google would directly compete with PayPal, dubbing its potential new service “GBuy.” Google has not […]

 Comsumer Affairs
With all the recent disclosures of stolen data, consumers are not exactly surprised when they are told that their identity has been stolen. A clever scammer is counting on that heightened sense of awareness with an email scam targeted at PayPal account holders.
The email looks official. It bears the PayPal logo and appears to […]