Archive for June, 2007

  • eBay’s A Party Pooper and Drops Google Ads

    According to Scot Wingo, CEO of Channeladvisor and author of eBay Strategies (and I just comfirmed by checking a handful of keywords as well), eBay has pulled their Adwords advertising from Google. Apparently this is due to a Google Checkout Party being held at eBay Live.
    Here is a snip from Scot’s post: […]

  • eBay Sellers Gets Big Fine

    A JEWELLERY company on eBay that allegedly bid on its own auctions to illegally drive up prices by as much as 20 per cent agreed to pay $475,000 in restitution and penalties, the New York state attorney general’s office said.
    Ezra Dweck and employees of his company, EMH Group, placed more than 232,000 such bids worth […]

  • Predictions For eBay Live 2007

    Each year during eBay’s annual conference, the company likes to make splashy announcements (health care insurance for PowerSellers, ProStores web-hosting, and last year - blogs and wikis). This year, eBay CEO Meg Whitman will deliver the keynote on June 14th; joining her will be Bill Cobb (eBay North America) and Rajiv Dutta (PayPal). (Does anyone […]

  • eBay Bidding For Radio Airtime Ads

    EBay Inc. will begin taking bids for radio advertisements starting Wednesday as the online auction leader tries to expand into offline ads.
    EBay will partner with privately held Bid4Spots Inc., an Encino-based startup hosting weekly online auctions of radio airtime since January 2005. The agreement means advertisers can bid on eBay for commercial time on more […]

  • Skype Helps Fund Blip.tv

    Blip.tv, which produces and distributes original programming online, has announced the closing of its series B financing. In addition, the digital video upstart has announced their first venture capital investors. Most notably, Ambient Sound Investments, the venture capital fund run by the founders of Skype, an online peer-to-peer telephony network, has signed on as investors […]

  • Skype Seeking Help From FCC to Unlock Cell Phones

    Are cellphone companies using their sway over handset makers to unfairly limit consumers’ choices? Skype, a pioneer in PC-to-PC calling, thinks so, and it wants the Federal Communications Commission to do something about it.
    In a blistering filing with the FCC, Skype basically accused Verizon Wireless and other big carriers of holding their customers hostage because […]

  • eBay UK Joining Fair Trade

    EBay UK is getting on board the Fair Trade bus. The company just launched a portal that allows shoppers to easily find Fair Trade certified goods on the site. The interface is Flash-based, rather nifty and easy to use.
    Browsing around, you can find information in the dozen or so Fair Trade sellers listed on the […]

  • JotSpot Hosts eBay Wiki

    JotSpot, another one of our Next Net companies, scored a big coup. It will be hosting eBay’s new wiki for buyers and sellers to give each other information about the mechanics of the site. Says JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus:
    It represents a coming of age for wikis. You are finally seeing wikis coming out of […]

  • eBay Accounting Now Simplified

    One of the least fun things about running an eBay business is keeping track of sales revenue and expenses, but there’s no way around this necessary chore. Now there’s an online accounting product, called KeepMore (http://www.keepmore.net), which requires no accounting knowledge or understanding to create great financial records. Just follow prompts for entering positive (income) […]