Archive for November 2nd, 2006

A false posting on gaming website Evil Avatar sent rumors swirling around the Internet. The news claimed that EB and GameStop managers were conspiring to yank preorders away from customers who were planning to auction their system on eBay. However, Next Generation recently confirmed with the retailer that there is no such “conspiracy.”
“Are we canceling […]

The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) will auction “rights” to a whale’s life on the online site.
WSPA wants to raise $180,000 (£95,000), the value of meat from a fin whale; it then aims to pay this sum to hunters, and ask them to let one whale go.

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We admit it. Back in January we jumped aboard the newly announced eBay Express (EE) train along with many of eBay’s top sellers, convinced that eBay was really on to something. EE would fill the gap in eBay’s business expertly, we reasoned, in that it would provide the marketplace exactly what was missing from the […]

We wrote about PayPal’s soft launch of their PayPal mobile service back in March. This is a service which allows you to pay for goods via your mobile phone.
PayPal announced on the 1st November 2006 that over a third of UK adults now have a PayPal account which is sure to bolster the mobile […]

The headquarters of eBay, Inc.’s (NASDAQ:EBAY) PayPal division was apparently bombed on Halloween night, as the San Jose, California headquarters was partially evacuated after four plate-glass windows were blown out and police became immediately involved.
Investigators on the scene apparently were able to determine that the bomb blast was intentional. The blast was caused by an […]

In June, eBay launched Skype integration in a limited number of categories. On Wednesday, eBay announced it is expanding the number of categories in which sellers will be allowed to add Skype Me buttons to their listings. Skype is eBay’s VoIP Internet telephony service that allows users to make phone calls over the Internet.
eBay said […]