Archive for July 21st, 2006

 Mercury News
EBay reported quarterly earnings Wednesday that met Wall Street’s expectations, but warned that the mix of items for sale in online auctions vs. online stores hosted by eBay was out of balance and needed to be fixed.
Investors saluted eBay’s candor with a wave of after-hours stock purchases that lifted the company’s slumping share price […]

 Blogging Stocks
Do you believe in magic?
Meg Whitman, eBay’s CEO, believes in the eBay magic. She wants to restore it. Well, she said it better. She said the SIF (Store Inventory Format) listings growth have “diluted the magic of eBay,” and that, “We are trying to get back to the essence of eBay.”
Magic shmagic! That was […]

 Networking Pipeline
Two developments in the last day show why Skype can’t make a profit. First, in an eBay earnings conference call, eBay execs clearly were trying to hide Skype’s real performance. And then today, the Gizmo Project announced that all VoIP calls to landlines throughout most of the world will be free — forever.
As Om […]