Archive for February, 2007

Remember the early days of eBay selling, when saving money was of prime importance? People were dumpster diving for memorabilia to sell–still not a bad idea–picking up packing peanuts once a week from the local beauty supply store and foraging for boxes behind any store possible. Those were the days. I even remember creative eBay […]

I was extremely annoyed by eBay’s (EBAY) Skype acquisition, and the consequent stock price drop that eBAY delivered. Needless to say I am an eBAY shareholder, albeit a rather restless one at the moment.
Now that Skype is inside eBAY, however, I’d really like to see it perform, grow, deliver the grandiose numbers that were projected […]

Skype Ltd. is looking to a 1968 ruling by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to open up the country’s mobile phone industry for “unlocked” devices and third-party applications — such as Skype.
On this topicVonage subscriber growth slowsNokia Siemens Networks: IP all the wayMobile VOIP is on the marchThe Business Case for Unified MessagingExperts Weigh In: […]

I attended Beyond Broadcast at MIT yesterday. The conference theme was “From Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy.” Henry Jenkins, Director of Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT and author of “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide,” gave an outstanding keynote presentation and posed the question, what does democracy look like in the 21st […]

eBay Giving Works, a program dedicated for charity listings, announced that the program now has 10,000 nonprofits registered.
eBay Giving Works launched in November 2003 and enables nonprofits to raise funds online while letting buyers and sellers support the causes that are most important to them. To celebrate the milestone, the eBay Foundation will be […]

Firemeg, who, if the name is any indication, is not a supporter of eBay CEO Meg Whitman, provided this well-thought out response to a blog I wrote on eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). Firemeg made some interesting points.
Firemeg said:
In its current state, I would never buy ebay stock to hold onto. The numbers you have given are […]

SAN JOSE Officials from eBay Inc. and its payments division PayPal Inc. have recently held private discussions in Washington about the possibility of applying for a limited banking charter, according to two people familiar with the company’s moves.
The charter would reduce PayPal’s dependency on partnerships with other banks.
But San Jose-based eBay’s plans were thrown into […]

Today’s column is for all the friends and co-workers who have asked for advice over the years about buying and selling on eBay.
I am the eBay Queen. It started four years ago when I was researching an article. Within minutes of getting a user ID I took a break from my research and began bidding […]

An advert for popular auction site eBay that showed a coffee machine available for under £100 has got the company into trouble.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld a complaint from a member of the public who had been unable to find the item at that price on eBay.
The advert also featured a chair, apparently being […]

By the end of February, most of the employees at eBay’s San Jose headquarters will collect their possessions, wave a final goodbye to their landline telephones and change cubicles.
But what John Donahoe, president of one of eBay’s most important divisions, really wants is for his colleagues to change the way they work. “I’m a big […]