Archive for October 11th, 2007

  • First eBay Seller of the Year

     BBC News
    A trader who has developed a multimillion-pound business has been named the first eBay seller of the year.
    Jamie Murray, 28, from St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan, beat 20m other “eBayers” to the auction site’s title.
    His trading of memory cards and electronic accessories gained the highest number of the site’s satisfied customers over the past […]

  • Will eBay’s Neighborhoods Increase Sales

     Wired Blog Network
    After a week of negative headlines regarding its overpayment for Skype, today eBay launched Neighborhoods, its own social network of sorts meant to get passionate collectors talking about their crap. My initial reaction was a groan—another social network? And as Kevin Kelleher pointed out on GigaOm, eBay’s certainly late to the party. Will […]

  • GoTalk Brings A New View on Skype Competition

     PC World

    Rapidly growing telco Gotalk has signed an exclusive agreement with US-based company Safeway to bring the Blackhawk gift card network to Australia.
    The Blackhawk network, a part of the popular US gift card “Store-on-a-Stand” kiosk, sells many different telco gift cards as a part of its service. Gotalk’s CEO Steve Picton hopes that by bringing […]

  • Co-Founder of Skype Stills See Big Potential

     Profy
    Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company’s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity’s proprietor, eBay.Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype’s achievement of attaining some […]

  • Paypal & eBay Rank Highest on Phishing List

    SC Magazine

    PayPal and eBay are easily the most common brands used in online scams, a PhishTank report reveals.
    The inaugural report – based on the end-user submission of almost 300,000 emails believed to be phishes – shows PayPal and its parent eBay served as the lure in 63,437 verified phishing emails.
    PayPal was spoofed in 31,719 emails, […]