Archive for July 17th, 2006

  • eBay and Local Pickups

    AllBusiness:
    If you sell products on eBay for your home-based business do you allow for local pickups? eBay does offer that as a shipping option and I’m sure it works very well for businesses who have a physical location away from home. But it doesn’t work very well for home-based businesses. The more we sell on […]

  • Skype May Get Competition Soon

     Engadget
    Earlier this week, a gentleman named Charlie Paglee received a Skype call from a colleague in China — nothing out of the ordinary, except for the fact that this particular call was coming from an unofficial, homemade Skype client. Paglee, who cofounded the VoIP startup Vozin Communications, claims that the Chinese friend he spoke with […]

  • eBay Gets Help Protecting Endangered Animals

     Central Florida
    A renowned marine research institute is working to help keep endangered animals in the water and off of Internet auction sites.
    Scientists at Sarasota’s Mote Marine Laboratory are helping internet auction sites like eBay identify endangered marine animals before they’re sold.
     
    Selling endangered animals for any purpose is illegal.
    They hope what they’re doing will help keep […]

  • Ex eBay Tells All in New Book

    Santa Cruz Sentinel 
    On the day that Ken Walton’s book “Fake: Forgery, Lies & eBay” was released — April 25 — there was a knock on his door.
    The man at the door was dressed in a suit and tie. When Walton opened the door, he expected to hear the opening spiel of a Jehovah’s Witness.
    Instead, the […]

  • Canada’s eBay Growing At A Furious Pace

     Canoe Money
    With more and more budding entrepreneurs plying their trades online, Canada’s underground economy is soaring through cyberspace in a big way, experts say.
    “There’s always been an underground economy with some businesses, but the Internet’s going to cause a proliferation in the opportunities available,” said Rick Broadhead, a Toronto-based expert on electronic commerce. “There’s a […]

  • PayPal Expanding in Arizona

     azstarnet
    Online bill-payment firm PayPal will open a technology development center in Scottsdale by the end of the year and hire more than 400 professionals by 2009.
    PayPal announced it will locate its planned center in a new 92,000-square-foot building on the northeast corner of Mountain View Road and 90th Street, bypassing Scottsdale’s planned SkySong technology park.
    PayPal’s […]