Archive for May, 2007

Mpire has launched widgets for eBay and Amazon affiliates that incorporate the company’s meta-shopping data into Web sites, blogs and social network profiles. Mpire’s collection of over 75 widgets gives free access to packaged Amazon and eBay shopping trend results across 15 popular categories, such as entertainment, sports, fashion, technology, games and youth/teens. By inserting [...]

What do you do when you receive an email from an online financial company that you regularly deal with, informing you about the completion of a transaction that you never did in the first place? There’s a good chance you might lose your senses for a short while. That’s exactly what people behind this new [...]

Auction website eBay is reported to be in talks to buy social networking recommendation site StumbleUpon for $75m.
Both companies have refused to comment on the speculation, but talks are thought to be nearing a critical stage.
A decision is expected within the next few weeks, according to reports on Reuters.
StumbleUpon uses recommendations from its 2.3 million [...]

Yahoo and eBay have been working together on projects since May 2006. Their most recent deal brought PayPal to Yahoo as a payment mechanism for Yahoo’s online retailer clients.
Although it is not stated as such in the official announcement, the end of Yahoo Auctions in the US and Canada in June removes them from the [...]

The senior vice president of legal affairs and general counsel for online auctioneer eBay Inc. exercised options for 70,000 shares of common stock under a prearranged trading plan, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
In a Form 4 filed with the SEC Friday, Michael R. Jacobson reported he exercised the options Wednesday for 63 [...]

Seller Sourcebook, an auction template and photo-hosting service, has released Auction Launcher for eBay.com. The tool is a 1-page listing tool that is fully integrated with eBay and is an eBay certified application.
Seller Sourcebook founder Kristen Rice said, “We want to make the listing process easier and faster for the busy seller.” Sellers create their [...]

The Brazilian government has appealed to Conar (Self-Regulation Advertising Council) so that that bureau punishes Brazil’s eBay, the Mercado Livre site, for allowing an ad in which the author describes himself as a man trying to sell his own wife. The individual, who signs as Breno Bonin, asks a mere 100 reais (US$ 50) for [...]

The key to getting out of Anamosa State Penitentiary actually may be a key — one or two that prison officials fear may have been sold on eBay.
Prison officials just paid $6,000 to have the outer locks changed in the Iowa maximum security men’s prison that houses 1,289 inmates. Fred Scaletta, a spokesman for the [...]

* The first thing you should do is sign up an account with Paypal.com. Once your account is set up, follow Paypal’s instructions to verify your address and account. This will help build buyers’ trust in you as a seller. Paypal will help you easily accept payment from buyers as well as pay wholesale suppliers [...]

SHAPE Services announced the release of a new version of its IM+ for Skype Software for BlackBerry smartphones from Research In Motion (RIM).
IM+ for Skype Software by SHAPE Services is a mobile client for Skype Software. It enables voice and text communication with other Skype users as well as cost-effective calling to landline or mobile [...]