Archive for June 28th, 2006

  • GBuy Hasn’t Taken over Yet

    Forbes
    Unconfirmed reports that Google will soon launch a payment service to rival eBay’s PayPal dealt a blow to the online auction company’s shares on Tuesday.
    But eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) could conceivably weather the competition thanks to its significant brand-name advantage, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Equity [...]

  • eBay May Need More Training Before Skype Is Adopted

    TMC Net 

    Internet fax and on-demand communications solutions provider RingCentral announced this week the results of its recent online commerce survey, conducted during the eBay Live 2006 conference.

    The survey asked more than 85 eBay merchants categorized as “Power Sellers� to share their thoughts about which communications solutions work best to enhance online selling.

    RingCentral’s analysis of the [...]

  • ChannelAdvisor Buts Heads with Marketworks

     AuctionBytes
    ChannelAdvisor issued a press release on Tuesday announcing competitor Marketworks filed a complaint against it in Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta. “ChannelAdvisor understands that the complaint primarily centers around the hiring of a former Marketworks employee who was allegedly bound by a non-competition agreement forbidding employment with AuctionRover.com” (http://www.channeladvisor.com/company/press_releases/pr060627.asp). ChannelAdvisor and Marketworks provide multi-channel [...]

  • GBuy Take a Bite Out of eBay Stock

     Reuters
    Google Inc. is expected to unveil on Wednesday an online payment system called GBuy, which analysts say will allow merchants to accept payment for services and could become a broad-based alternative to eBay’s PayPal, the dominant system.
    Analyst Danny Sullivan, editor of SearchEngineWatch.com, said he expected Google to make the announcement on Wednesday and to target [...]