Archive for October 4th, 2007

  • Yahoo Users To see Less PayPal Phishing

     iTwire
    Yahoo Mail is today applying the DomainKeys authentication technology to block emails purporting to be from eBay or PayPal.
    DomainKeys allows an email server to verify that an email really did originate from the domain it claims to be from. So a phishing email coming from a zombie PC connected to an ISP cannot include a [...]

  • eBay Fears Internet Access Taxes

     Associated Press
     An eBay executive warned Wednesday that fewer small businesses would sell products through the Web auctioneer, and elsewhere online, without a permanent ban on Internet access taxes.
    Congress first imposed a moratorium on taxing Internet access — which bars state and local governments from taxing the connection to basic Internet content — in 1998. Since [...]

  • eBay to Crack Down on Selling Recalled Items

     Kansascity.com
    EBay Inc. said sellers who inadvertently are listing recalled items will be sent a message from the company with a copy of its policy forbidding such sales.
    “Listing items on eBay which have been recalled is strictly prohibited, and if the Consumer Product Safety Commission asks eBay to remove an item, we will take it down,” [...]


  •  Rapid TV News
    Skype’s co-founders have – almost - left the building!
    Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the co-founders of VoIP service Skype have resigned, and there are signs that all is not well at eBay which paid a mind-numbing pile of cash for Skype. The inventive paid are also the brains behind web-based download service Joost. [...]

  • Skype Not Pulling It’s Own Weight

     Internet Financial News
    Business Week and the Wall Street Journal are all over eBays latest word on Skype”and that looks to be Whoops. After paying $1.3 billion cash…
    …and $1.3 billion stock two years ago, eBay is regretting its decision and partnering with Skype rival Jajah.
    eBay reports that theyll be taking a 3rd quarter impairment charge of [...]