Archive for September, 2006

 Online community billboard Craigslist
receives 5 billion page views and 13 million unique visitors a month.
In the eyes of many in the Internet business, those figures would
represent very big dollar signs.

Though Craigslist achieves those enviable numbers, it remains simply “a small community service” to its founder.

“We could sell Craigslist for an enormous amount of money,” […]

Everything in E-bay seemed perfect: nice
shopping portal, almost complete buyer’s list, and a convenient place
to do shopping online. In fact, it’s too good to be true.
If this is the case, then it’s time for the buyer’s warning signal
to go red alert because if things on E-bay seemed to good to be true,
it probably is and […]

Indeed, what happened today? Another day of significant gains as
eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) shares were up by 4.76% or $1.29 to close at
$28.41. If you go look at the intra-day chart, you’d notice that the rally started around noon.
So what did we have? Actually, around that time we had the press-release
regarding eBay’s PayPal settling a […]

PayPal has added a feature to its Multi-User Access functionality. Multi-User Access is a permissions-based feature that allows business owners to give unique access levels to different employees within the same PayPal account.
PayPal has now added an additional multi-user access permission that will give account holders the ability to allow certain employees to speak to […]

In a settlement with Ohio and 27 other states, the online-payment service PayPal has agreed to simplify its fine print.
Along with making its user agreement clearer, PayPal also will
keep users better informed about fraud protection. During the payment
process, the company will now explain how the company protects
customers against fraud, for example when a […]

Skype has announced it has no timetable for the roll out of Mobile
Skype, due to unforeseen technical difficulties and a lack of suitable
handsets.
The internet telephony company is developing the
service for the Symbian operating system, used by Nokia amongst others,
Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and co-founder told Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.
However,
Zennström added that he hadn’t realised the […]

Companies can no longer afford to ignore the sales potential presented by its 187 million users worldwide and could be an important sale channel for your company. The problem: Increasing sales, finding new markets Every company wants to reach new customers, find new products for their products and promote their brand. However they also need […]

Skype Journal’s Phil Wolff posts that after lots of brouhaha, San Jose State University’s Computing and Telecommunications department (SJSU UCAT) have said they will not ban Skype.
Apparently, a Monday meeting between SJSU officials and Skype-owner eBay’s governmental relations team did the trick.
Although Phil was not in on that meeting, he recommends that any
such […]

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eBay launched new shopping sites on Wednesday called DoorOne in four
countries: the UK, France, Germany and Australia. According to eBay’s
announcement on the Australian announcement board, “Doorone.com.au
makes shopping simple by bringing together hundreds of thousands of
products, hundreds of online retailers and millions of product reviews
from the Epinions community. Doorone helps shoppers save time and
empowers online shoppers […]