Archive for March, 2007

Peter DeStefano figures he’s one of the reasons the online auction site eBay has named the township the site’s biggest per-capita user.
He’s been selling posters, prints and artwork on the site for almost four years and between his online store, Lumberton House Art Framing Shoppe, and the purchases he makes to bolster his collections of [...]

The attack is similar to threats that target instant-messaging applications. A targeted Skype user will receive a chat message with the text “Check up this” and a link to a malicious executable called “file_01.exe” on a Web site, Websense said in an alert. If the user runs the file, several other files are downloaded and [...]

eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) CEO Meg Whitman
last week outlined eBay’s current three-prong approach for battling the phishers and scammers who continually prey on unsuspecting eBay users. Red Herring reported that this past Thursday at the VISA Security Summit in Washington, DC, Ms. Whitman made it known that in the continuing effort to restore basic user security [...]

Skype is moving into the transactions space, the company’s CEO and founder Niklas Zennstrom announced Tuesday at VON. The company, which has more than 171 million users, now offers a variety of services and features including the ability for users to send money to each other, an online marketplace and a local business listing search [...]

Nearly 35 million people throughout Europe use PayPal to make online payments, the company announced today.
PayPal, the online payment branch of auction website eBay, gave separate figures for Europe and the UK for the first time, having previously only separated its results into US and rest of the world.

The figures show that in the UK, [...]

eBay Inc.’s (NASDAQ:EBAY) online payment system, PayPal, now has nearly 35 million accounts in Europe, about a quarter of the service’s worldwide total. Forrester Research also says that 23% of Europeans prefer PayPal to credit cards or alternate ways of making payments online.PayPal is looking more and more like the future driver of the company’s [...]

An Australian man pleaded guilty to breaking into eBay and a local bank to steal AU$42,000 (about $34,000), in a case that demonstrates the problem of account takeovers on the auction site.
Dov Tenenboim, 21, of the Sydney suburb of North Bondi, stood accused of breaking into at least 90 different eBay seller accounts last year, [...]

Skype Prime has created somewhat of a stir in the blogosphere. It basically gives you the ability to charge someone for calls (either per-call or per-minute). Phil Wolff at Skype Journal points out the limitations, which are as follows:

* $0.50/min minimum all charge
* Skype takes 30% of whatever you charge [...]

PayPal unveiled its new 125,000-square-foot Operations Center in La Vista’s Southport East Business Park last Wednesday.
Above, PayPal executives conduct a tour with Gov. Dave Heineman and other community members after the grand opening festivities last Wednesday.
The company, which handles payment transactions over the Internet and is owned by eBay, opened an operations center in La [...]

The Street appears to be growing more optimistic that eBay’s (EBAY) first quarter results could beat expectations.
J.P. Morgan’s Imran Khan wrote today that based on analysis of both listings and revenue per listing, he is “comfortable�? that the company is “tracking ahead of Street consensus�? for the quarter of $1.71 billion in revenue and profits [...]