Archive for July, 2006

 Christian Science Monitor
Shoppers browsing online for new designer sunglasses or that ultrathin cellphone have a new temptation: a speedy-looking blue shopping-cart icon offering to whisk them to a purchase.
Last month, Google, by far the most popular way to find things on the Internet (it processes about 45 percent of all searches), added Google Checkout [...]

 Zee News
Washington, July 23: The bed on which actor Keanu Reeves and his ex-girlfriend reportedly shared a number of mush moments is up for sale on eBay. The money will go towards paying a girl’s college tuition fee.
The Bali-inspired craftsman`s bed belonged to one of Reeves` former girlfriends, who passed it on to a friend [...]

 AuctionBytes
eBay Store owners posting on discussion boards last week reacted strongly to eBay’s announced fee increases. Sellers are considering various options, from “clearing out deadwood” inventory, to taking the drastic action of closing their Stores.
eBay is increasing both listing and commission (Final Value) fees for Store inventory effective August 22. Listing fees will rise 150 [...]

 Miami Herald
When the company where Mike Jalali worked went bankrupt in 2004, he was left with two trailers full of audiovisual and electronic equipment.
He didn’t have enough storage space in his Weston home, and desperately needed to get rid of the stuff. He turned to eBay, the online auction site, for help.
But photographing each item, [...]

 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 [...]

PowerSeller King 
On the same day that eBay announced a 14% decline in quarterly revenue, eBay North America President, Bill Cobb announced an increase in sellers fees.
It’s official. eBay has lost their freakin’ mind.
With eBay traffic down by 10 Million visitors a day, how in the world can they justify raising sellers fees on Store items?
More [...]

 Gizmodo
 
Take advantage of those low rates for SkypeOut without having to spring for a new phone with this Skype Phone Converter. If you’re unfamiliar with SkypeOut, it lets you use the Skype Internet phone system to reach any phone in the world. The Skype Phone Converter plugs into a USB port on your PC and [...]

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Jeff Jordan will act as part-time consultant to eBay
 
News that Jeff Jordan was stepping down as President of PayPal came as a shock to industry observers last week. But eBay filings with the SEC on Thursday revealed that Jordan will provide consulting services to eBay on a part-time basis following his employment termination date, [...]