Archive for June 11th, 2006
Dm News EBay holds its fifth annual user conference next week in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Convention Center, a three-day event expected to bring together nearly 15,000 eBay buyers and sellers from around the world. Called eBay Live, the June 13-15 show is an educational and networking event for users of [...]
Googles Gbuy to Changing Online Buying
Forbes RBC Capital Markets maintained an “outperform” rating on Google in light of the impending launch of the company’s online payment system, currently known as “GBuy.” Consumers using GBuy, which is set for release on June 28, will be taken off the merchant’s site to complete the payment. This will enable Google (nasdaq: GOOG – [...]
Skype Continues to Grow Despite Telecoms
The Observer The internet is really just a giant machine for springing surprises. And this is – as programmers joke – a ‘feature’, not a bug. That is to say, the net’s capacity to facilitate disruptive innovation was designed into it from the beginning. Essentially, if you can do something with data packets, then the [...]
eBay Partnering Kaboodle to Promote My Collectibles.
 ZD Net eBay, “The Worldâs Online Marketplace,â? and Kaboodle, a start-up e-commerce oriented Web 2.0 bookmarking service, are partnering to launch âMyCollectibles,” available at both eBay and Kaboodle, billed as a social sharing destination for collectable enthusiasts, but presently a new marketing platform for eBay sellers in a variety of categories. The âMyCollectiblesâ? destination is described as a free [...]
Ebay Set to Lauch Keyword Advertising
Washington Post Online marketplace eBay Inc. (EBAY.O) is set to unveil a keyword advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions on other Web sites, borrowing from the strategies of Google and Yahoo. Michael van Swaaij, eBay’s chief strategy officer, told a conference of software developers here on Saturday of plans to allow Web site [...]
