Archive for 2007

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 […]

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 […]

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 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, 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 […]

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) […]

As seen in the post “Your Pal, My Pal, PayPal”, Yahoo! Publisher Network Webmasters and Publishers……
 can now choose to pay through Pay Pal Transfers.
Michael Mattis, Blog Editor at Yahoo! Publishers Network’s official blog writes, “Today at Yahoo! Publisher Network we’re pleased, and I mean pleased, to announce that publishers in our network now have the […]

Many of you have probably made a purchase from a Web site, and entered a credit card number to pay for it.
It’s a fact of life these days that Internet shopping is very fast and convenient. But you need to be careful. There are a number of scams out there aimed at acquiring your financial […]

Consumating a long-rumored deal, Internet auctioneer eBay agreed on Wednesday to acquire social bookmarking site StumbleUpon for $75 million.
The popular San Francisco, California-based startup, with almost 2.5 million users and growing by 150 percent annually, allows users to approve or disapprove of websites and then guides them to other sites that users with similar […]

Many people trying to start an eBay business spend a great deal of time trying to figure out which items sell best on eBay. Many of these people have elaborate systems for determining this information, and many others purchase expensive courses that teach them how to find this information as well. None of that is […]