Archive for July 6th, 2006

  • Top Executives Leaving eBay

     REUTERS
    EBay Inc. said on Thursday the head of its PayPal unit will leave the Web auctioneer in a surprise shake-up that closely follows Google Inc.’s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) unveiling of a rival payment service.
    Shares in eBay (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) fell more than 5 percent to their lowest since 2003 on the departure of [...]

  • eBay Not Permitting Google Checkout

     eBay Strategies
    eBay has updated it’s “Safe Payments Policy” to specifically NOT allow Google Checkout.  I suspect sellers (especially multichannel) will be pretty upset about this.
    It will be interesting to see what lame excuse eBay uses to justify this.  For example, they will probably say it’s new so prone to fraud.  Well, in reality it’s a [...]