Archive for April, 2007

The Mozilla Corporation and eBay International have announced a Mozilla Firefox partnership to “improve the online auction experience for people in France, Germany and the United Kingdom”. According to the press release, “Mozilla and eBay are collaborating on new technology and approaches to enable eBay users to stay up to date with their auctions more [...]

The Pope Benedict XVI Mobile from record-breaking auction is back on the block for charity
The car that drew international attention and broke eBay records with over 10 million visitors to its auction page in May 2005, is now going to be put back on the auction block by GoldenPalace.com, the winners of the now famous [...]

The Pope Benedict XVI Mobile from record-breaking auction is back on the block for charity
The car that drew international attention and broke eBay records with over 10 million visitors to its auction page in May 2005, is now going to be put back on the auction block by GoldenPalace.com, the winners of the now famous [...]

Currently 9% of US households now use a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) telephone service with figures predicted to rise rapidly, according to a survey.
Cable operators are driving growth in the US residential Voice over Internet VoIP telephone market, according to market research company In-Stat.
More than 10.6 million US households now have at least one [...]

Virtually all U.S. eBay and online sellers will be affected by upcoming changes to the postal rates. On March 19, 2007, the Governors of the United States Postal Service approved rate changes effective May 14, 2007: http://www.usps.com/ratecase/welcome.htm
Things are still a bit in flux for some rates, however. According to MultichannelMerchant.com, the USPS Board of Governors [...]

PayPal has launched a product aimed at helping small and medium businesses accept online payments securely and cost-effectively.
The Website Payments Pro product is the first non-hosted payment suite from PayPal, a subsidiary of online auction giant eBay. It includes Express Checkout, Direct Payment API and Virtual Terminal functions, so firms can let shoppers choose how [...]