Archive for June, 2006

 AuctionBytes
Stephen Wargel, CEO of Motion Dynamics LLC, discussed the challenges of selling online and on eBay in an interview with AuctionBytes.TV. Wargel, who was in Las Vegas for the eBay Live conference, was attending a reception thrown by product-sourcing site Alibaba.com when AuctionBytes caught up with him.
Wargel sells construction equipment on eBay and is a [...]

 Investors.com
There’s a tag team match under way in the world of online ads, and it could be about to get rough.
On one side is Internet auctioneer eBay (EBAY) and the Web portal Yahoo, (YHOO) which joined forces last month to share Internet ads and promote eBay’s online payment system. On the other: search giant Google [...]

 Business Wire
MX Telecom, a leading provider of global SMS text messaging and multimedia solutions, and PayPal Mobile, Inc. today announced that Alex Moir, CEO MX Telecom and Kevin Dulsky, Senior Director, GM Mobile Payments, PayPal Mobile will co-present a case study on Mobile Payments at the MoMeMo event taking place on June 26th at SoHo [...]

 C Net News
Not having any luck with bids on eBay? Well, there’s another online auction site you might want to hit–PropertyRoom.com. The goods in question are from police property auctions. That’s right, the loot seized from thieves and convicted and alleged criminals.
For example, under the heading “Hot Pursuit Specials” (which features an illustration of a [...]

 ZDNet
Google and Dell, eBay and Yahoo…Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, and Meg Whitman, eBay CEO, concur on the attractiveness of partnerships for growth and both give thumbs up to the new era of collaborative competition. Plus, Whitman speaks to Schmidt (a Princeton classmate) “several times a month.”
Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, 5/31/06, investor conference call

we much prefer [...]

 AuctionBytes
eBay officially launched its new fixed-price marketplace called eBay Express during the eBay Live conference last week. AuctionBytes.TV caught up with eBay Express Director Lara Bridges on the show floor to talk about the new site and how seller listings appear in search results.
Bridges explained search results are tied to relevancy, with rankings based on [...]

 AuctionBytes
eBay CEO Meg Whitman and North American President Bill Cobb spoke at the eBay Live conference last week in Las Vegas. ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo shares his thoughts on the significance of the announcements coming out of the keynote addresses, including the vow to enforce eBay’s excessive shipping policy.
In general, attendees were positive about the [...]

 TechSpot
PayPal claims to have now fixed a vulnerability on their site that could have allowed malicious attackers to steal credit card information from PayPal users. Obviously something that PayPal wanted to stamp out immediately, the flaw involved a cross-scripting attack and saw targeted users getting an e-mail, purporting to be from PayPal, which directed [...]

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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 [...]