Archive for October, 2007

 Tech News World

Research firm Garter cited several things that eBay “got right” with the $2.6 billion buy of Skype. However, some of the expected synergies from the Skype buy never materialized. “Is Skype a viable entity, is it a valuable?” asked Will Stofega, research manager for VoIP services at IDC. “Yes,” he told the E-Commerce [...]

ECommerceGuide 
Who Are The People In Your (eBay) Neighborhood?
Taking us back to the days when Mr. Rogers was popular, eBay introduced Neighborhoods, a community-based space organized by popular items and searches. Neighborhoods are designed for members with a very specific interest in mind, and lets shoppers join a specific neighborhood to find like-minded eBay members and [...]

 Auctionbytes
PayPal will roll out a risk reduction program for eBay sellers in the U.S. and Canada over the next few months. PayPal first announced the Payment Review program in June at the eBay Live conference. PayPal said the program is an early-warning system designed to help protect sellers from fraudulent payments.
Payment Review is automatic (eBay [...]

 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 [...]

 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 [...]

 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 [...]

 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 [...]

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, [...]

 TMCnet

Web auctioneer eBay (News - Alert) has reportedly blocked embedded voice links from JAJAH on its auction site. Jajah says this move by eBay raises concerns about anti-competitive behavior. According to Jajah, eBay removed listings of sellers who used Jajah’s technology. Some times ago, Jajah had introduced a technology called ‘Buttons,’ which let potential buyers connect [...]

 Webpronews
Imagine that someone leased space for a small sandwich shop.  Then the landlord plastered signs for Jimmy John’s, Subway, and Schlotzsky’s all around the area.  Not good, eh?  And some eBay sellers feel that they’ve been put in a similar position.

eBay Ads May Deflect Buyers

eBay’s ads are provided by Yahoo and Google, and as we [...]