Archive for April, 2007

PayPal Inc. saw its transaction volume swell 19% in the first quarter, to 177 million payments, while its non-auction business expanded to 39% of all transactions in a performance widely credited with boosting parent eBay Inc.’s financial results for the period. News of the e-commerce transaction processor’s performance comes just as it has wrapped up [...]

In its television ads, eBay describes itself as the place to get “it,” whatever it may be. The company deliberately leaves “it” undefined to emphasize the immense variety of goods available for auction on its site. “It” is anything a consumer can imagine. But as eBay expands into myriad new businesses—from telecommunications to social networking—some [...]

In the wake of the horrific Virginia Tech shooting, blame is being placed on everything from violent movies, to the lack of gun law reform, and even the auction website eBay. Many news outlets have reported that the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho, purchased his ammunition on eBay. Now eBay has come forward to set the record [...]

World’s largest eBay seller’s group, Dallas eBaybes & eMales, will host a meeting with USPS officials to discuss looming rate increases. The meeting will be held at 6:00PM on Monday, April 23rd in Plano, Texas. The success of an eBay seller is directly affected by shipping costs and many eBay sellers are extremely upset about [...]

There’s no point in leaving something up to chance. eBay’s (Nasdaq: EBAY) PayPal has survived the initial threat from Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) nascent electronic-payment platform, but it wants to make sure that things stay that way. The world’s leading online marketplace announced last week that it will team up with Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) in a [...]

E-commerce consultancy Brulant have released results of its October 2006 and February 2007 surveys. One hundred of the largest online retailers, such as JC Penney, The Home Depot and Wal-Mart were investigated and the methods of payment they offered logged.
In the intervening four months the acceptance of non-traditional payment methods, such as PayPal, Google Checkout [...]

The future of Online Revolution, the UK franchiser of eBay drop shop brand iSold It, appears to be in the balance amid reports that it has gone into receivership.
The company is refusing to comment on its future, referring enquiries instead to accountants BDO Stoy Hayward.
It hasn’t returned calls, but one of iSold It’s UK stores [...]

Lisa and Hugues Deriau started The Frenchy Bee, an eBay store, for fun.
But the business, which features French soaps, chocolates and gourmet items such as escargot and foie gras, was so successful they moved into an office within six months and have moved to larger spaces twice since.
It was no get-rich-quick track, or leisurely hobby [...]

GadgetCandy and Skype have teamed up to give away five swanky Skype phones. The Philips VoIP841 looks the business and works a treat, too. Now how about the chance to win one?
The chic cordless ‘Net handset can carry all your Skype calls, but doesn’t require a PC. It’ll synchronise with your existing Skype contacts so [...]

Playing on the sex factor like a lot of worms do, the Mal/Pykse-A worm is spreading via Skype’s IM chat system.
The worm poses as a link to a photograph of a young woman. Clicking on the link does display an image of a scantily clad model wearing stiletto heeled shoes, but only after infecting the [...]