Archive for July, 2006

Scammers are using bots to create bogus eBay accounts that boast trustworthy profiles in a new scheme to rip off buyers, a security company said Monday.The scam, said Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Fortinet, is a new twist on an old con where criminals set up bogus auctions, rake in the proceeds, and then scram, never intending to […]

I started writing about eBay for Blogging Stocks in mid-June, only a month and half ago, when eBay was still over $30 a share. It’s now trading under $24.I kept noticing this downtrend, aware of investors concerns, but never 100% sure why the sentiment was so negative. Especially after Q2 earnings report. I thought that […]

EBay’s enforcers cracked down last month on Julie Ann Brown, a marketing professor who sells prayer cards and Victorian paper in her spare time.She had violated a policy against bidding on one of her own items, or “shill bidding,” an incident she acknowledges took place but said was an accident that should be outweighed by […]

 EasyBourse
Friday registered about 15 million shares of common stock for sale from time to time by certain selling stockholders.
The shares were originally issued to the selling stockholders in connection with eBay’s acquisition of Skype Technologies SA, a Luxembourg-based Internet phone service company, last October.
The online auction company said it won’t receive any proceeds from the […]

 Money Control Tech Blog
Sophos has revealed that over 75% of all phishing emails are targeting users of PayPal or eBay.
Experts at SophosLabs scanned all phishing email messages received in the company’s global network of spam traps during 2006, and have revealed that 54.3% were attempting to steal information from users of PayPal. The second most […]

 Reuters
 Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the billionaire Internet entrepreneurs who created Kazaa and Skype, have reached into their own pockets to help settle a lawsuit brought by the music and movie industries.
Australia’s Sharman Networks, the lead defendant in a lawsuit by the movie and music industries which was settled on Thursday, confirmed that Zennstrom and […]

 KXAN News
 
Do you ever place a bet on eBay, only to miss the final moments of the auction and lose the item? Well, now you’ll never have to miss out in the final bidding process.
Whether you’re bidding on computers or Star Wars toys, the best way to win your eBay auction is to watch the […]

JournalStar 
The Nebraska treasurer’s first foray into selling unclaimed property on eBay was an enormous success, bringing in more than twice the estimated value.
The items  —   jewelry, coins and an antique pocket watch, all left in forgotten or abandoned safety deposit boxes — were valued at just more than $800.
They brought in just less than $1,800 […]

 cNet News
The new version, 1.5, of the voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) client boasts a new, more streamlined look. However, much of the functionality in the new Mac beta involves the sort of features that Skype’s Windows users have enjoyed for some time, such as menu-selectable dialing codes and easy importation of address book contacts.
One […]

Slate 
 From the ashes of the 2001-2002 crash there emerged four horsemen of the dot-com apocalypse: Amazon.com, Yahoo!, eBay, and AOL. This quartet of iconic companies, wounded but not destroyed in the crash, survived the plague years and flourished when the market recovered. But in recent weeks, at a time when online advertising and e-commerce are enjoying […]