Archive for August 21st, 2006

The Belkin Skype WiFi phone is a phone that looks like your cell, but works only with Skype and only over WiFi.
It’s about the same size as a larger candybar style phone—maybe 125% as long, wide, and thick as a Sony Ericsson T610.
We got our hands on one and ran it through our [...]

Paypal doesn’t want your business, even if it is perfectly legal.
Paypal:Multi-level marketing plans, also known as “network” or “matrix” marketing, include any business in which a person receives proceeds from his or her own sales of goods or services, of recruited members, or any combination thereof.
Similarly, PayPal prohibits as a Multi-Level Marketing plan any [...]

Google’s much hyped Google Checkout is not turning out to be the eBay PayPal killer that was speculated at launch less than two months ago.
Google planned on users flocking to “Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout,� but the touted “checkout option that makes buying across the web fast and easy� does not [...]

It’s no surprise that as the chorus of complaints about eBay has grown louder, the company is in the midst of a major slump in its stock price. These things are bound to go together as the company’s financial health is based on that of its buyers and sellers. And many of the sellers’ complaints [...]

Recently, eBay announced an increase in fees and other measures specifically targeting eBay store owners. Now, you would only expect fees to increase once in a while – we all realise that eBay is a business after all.
There are three things that I want to address:
1. eBay’s justification of the fee increases [...]

Ebay is a fantastic worldwide marketplace where almost anything you can imagine is being bought and sold at any given moment.
And for the entrepreneur, this now includes businesses. Now this may not be the initial game plan in a entrepreneur or angel investors strategy, but it actually could make a lot of sense [...]