Archive for 2007

The eBay-owned web communications company Skype is introducing a new casual games portal - and is courting developers to provide content.Skype’s Game Channel joins its voice over IP service and follows in the footsteps of casual-orientated pack-in games like those found with Microsoft Messenger.
However Skype and the operator/creator of its games offer, Easybits, have unveiled [...]

Skype on Wednesday announced the final release of Skype 2.6 for Mac. The VOIP communication software was previously available to Mac users as a public beta. It’s free to download and use for Skype-to-Skype communication; the company also sells plans that enable you to send and receive calls from landlines and cell phones.
Skype 2.6 for [...]

Online payment company PayPal today announced it has been granted a European Union banking license by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) in Luxembourg, effective 2 July 2007.
Under this new charter, PayPal will be able to offer its services to more online merchants across Europe. In addition, PayPal will be moving its European [...]

Do you have $1,000 sitting around for the iPhone? If so, you can buy the most-coveted cell phone of the 21st century for some retailers on eBay.
Prices for the iPhone have gone past the $1,000 mark on eBay, despite the fact that the neither Apple nor AT&T have given a specific launch date. Many of [...]

There’s a new tech wave washing up at Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT). The world’s largest retailer hooked up with eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) this morning to introduce Skype-friendly headsets, webcams, and handsets at 1,800 of its stores. Wal-Mart will also begin selling the country’s first prepaid Skype phone cards.
This isn’t necessarily a major catch for Wal-Mart. RadioShack [...]

Joost, the online video site established by the founders of Skype, has raised $45m in funding from four venture capital and media groups, just a week after launching the service.
Sequioa Capital, which backed Yahoo, Google and YouTube; Index Ventures, an early investor in Skype; Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon; and CBS, the US media [...]

Mpire has launched widgets for eBay and Amazon affiliates that incorporate the company’s meta-shopping data into Web sites, blogs and social network profiles. Mpire’s collection of over 75 widgets gives free access to packaged Amazon and eBay shopping trend results across 15 popular categories, such as entertainment, sports, fashion, technology, games and youth/teens. By inserting [...]

What do you do when you receive an email from an online financial company that you regularly deal with, informing you about the completion of a transaction that you never did in the first place? There’s a good chance you might lose your senses for a short while. That’s exactly what people behind this new [...]

Auction website eBay is reported to be in talks to buy social networking recommendation site StumbleUpon for $75m.
Both companies have refused to comment on the speculation, but talks are thought to be nearing a critical stage.
A decision is expected within the next few weeks, according to reports on Reuters.
StumbleUpon uses recommendations from its 2.3 million [...]

Yahoo and eBay have been working together on projects since May 2006. Their most recent deal brought PayPal to Yahoo as a payment mechanism for Yahoo’s online retailer clients.
Although it is not stated as such in the official announcement, the end of Yahoo Auctions in the US and Canada in June removes them from the [...]