Archive for March, 2007

Once the centre of power, the desk of former Enron Corp founder and chief executive officer Ken Lay is up for sale on eBay Inc.
The Houston-based charity Saving Animals Across Borders is also auctioning the desk that Jeffrey Skilling and Richard Kinder used when they were presidents of the now-defunct energy company.
Lay and Skilling, who [...]

The U.S. Postal Service, which has lost many customers to cyber communication, is increasing online appeal by strengthening its eBay association.
More than 75 area eBayers attended seminars Friday at the Gary main post office on Martin Luther King Drive, learninghow they could use the post office to ship CDs,books, antiques and other wares.
“We have a [...]

At the other end of the VoIP spectrum are the phones that you use when you aren’t mobile. This one is from Polycom, and it has the ubiquitous name of Communicator.
This Skype-based phone is basically a snazzy-looking speakerphone. Click on the Communicator to make or take phone calls, without the hassle of a headset. Built [...]

There are many good reasons why Skype is slowly making its way into the corporate world: It’s free, and you can forget about country codes, telephone numbers, and long-distance bills. With a mouse click, you’re talking, or even video­conferencing, with any of the 170 million Skype users worldwide. But there are also good reasons why [...]

Last summer, there was a seismic shift in the online-auction industry when eBay significantly increased fees for Store inventory and urged sellers to move items from Stores to the core auction platform. These moves came after eBay had heavily promoted Stores and had given Store listings more exposure on core early in the year, leaving [...]

Hundreds of pirate DVDs ready for sale on online auctions have been seized, and anti-piracy organisation the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) has warned it will prosecute persistent offenders.
It issued the warning after its Internet Investigations Team recently helped the Metropolitan Police (Newham Borough) and Newham Council Trading Standards arrest a 22-year old man, following [...]

As the markets have declined, eBay Inc. (NASDAQ: EBAY) has not only been going with the flow, it has been one click ahead of it. Since that fateful Tuesday in late February, the Nasdaq has lost 6.2% of its value, while eBay shares are down 8.5%, more than Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) or [...]

EBay’s still king of the online shopping ring, and then some, according to numbers released by Hitwise. Amazon, Wal-Mart, Craigslist, and Target combined can’t match the grip the incumbent online auction powerhouse holds on the online shopping public.
In February, eBay.com attracted 18.5 percent of all visits in Hitwise’s Shopping and Classifieds categories, followed by eBayMotors, [...]

In a move that says more about the revenue potential of its core business than any numbers reported to date, Skype announced the launch of two new products that have little to do with the core service and are already widely available elsewhere: local product reviews and a monetize-yourself expert network directory.
This strategy, of [...]

An eBay tool for both new users and master bidders, What’s Hot on eBaytracks down the hottest items on eBay and send them back to the desktop for you to see what you might have missed!
Click the “Top Searches” button at the bottom of the Widget to see other popular categories.
Explore the preferences to see [...]