Archive for May, 2007

EBay Inc., the world’s largest online auctioneer, added Spanish, French and Chinese websites for its PayPal payment services unit to help boost its overseas sales and extend its lead over Google Inc.’s rival Checkout service.
PayPal added service to 87 countries, including Cambodia, Greenland and Kazakhstan, San Jose-based EBay said in a statement. PayPal now serves [...]

PayPal is introducing a new partner program that gives incentives to ecommerce and financial service providers for integrating and offering PayPal’s Express Checkout to their merchant customers. Under the new program, partners will receive integration technical support, integration best practice information and access to co-branded marketing materials. In addition, partners that integrate Express Checkout will [...]

As PayPal today lays out its growth plans in the online retail space, it is also announcing its new European headquarters in Luxembourg after having applied for, and been granted, a banking licence by the CSSF in Luxembourg effective 2 July 2007.
This move will allow the business to better meet the needs of its 35 [...]

eBay has announced two changes that will affect the eBay US affiliate program beginning June 1, 2007. There will be an increase in commission rates and changes to the terms regarding paid search.According to the message sent to ebay affiliates…
The main objectives of the price change are to:
     * Encourage partners [...]

The eBay-owned web communications company Skype is introducing a new casual games portal - and is courting developers to provide content.Skype’s Game Channel joins its voice over IP service and follows in the footsteps of casual-orientated pack-in games like those found with Microsoft Messenger.
However Skype and the operator/creator of its games offer, Easybits, have unveiled [...]

Skype on Wednesday announced the final release of Skype 2.6 for Mac. The VOIP communication software was previously available to Mac users as a public beta. It’s free to download and use for Skype-to-Skype communication; the company also sells plans that enable you to send and receive calls from landlines and cell phones.
Skype 2.6 for [...]

Online payment company PayPal today announced it has been granted a European Union banking license by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg, effective 2 July 2007.
Under this new charter, PayPal will be able to offer its services to more online merchants across Europe. In addition, PayPal will be moving its European [...]

Do you have $1,000 sitting around for the iPhone? If so, you can buy the most-coveted cell phone of the 21st century for some retailers on eBay.
Prices for the iPhone have gone past the $1,000 mark on eBay, despite the fact that the neither Apple nor AT&T have given a specific launch date. Many of [...]

There’s a new tech wave washing up at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT). The world’s largest retailer hooked up with eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) this morning to introduce Skype-friendly headsets, webcams, and handsets at 1,800 of its stores. Wal-Mart will also begin selling the country’s first prepaid Skype phone cards.
This isn’t necessarily a major catch for Wal-Mart. RadioShack [...]

Joost, the online video site established by the founders of Skype, has raised $45m in funding from four venture capital and media groups, just a week after launching the service.
Sequioa Capital, which backed Yahoo, Google and YouTube; Index Ventures, an early investor in Skype; Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon; and CBS, the US media [...]