Archive for July 6th, 2006
REUTERS EBay Inc. said on Thursday the head of its PayPal unit will leave the Web auctioneer in a surprise shake-up that closely follows Google Inc.’s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) unveiling of a rival payment service. Shares in eBay (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) fell more than 5 percent to their lowest since 2003 on the [...]
eBay Not Permitting Google Checkout
 eBay Strategies eBay has updated it’s “Safe Payments Policy” to specifically NOT allow Google Checkout. I suspect sellers (especially multichannel) will be pretty upset about this. It will be interesting to see what lame excuse eBay uses to justify this. For example, they will probably say it’s new so prone to fraud. Well, in reality [...]
Business Week: At about eight in the morning on June 16, a young man named Remi Frazier from Fort Collins, Colo., sat down on a bench in Manhattan’s Columbus Circle, glued a cell phone to his ear, and spread a New York City map across his lap. By early afternoon he had launched an unlikely [...]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Small Business
Jeff Cornwall: Commit [the SBA Office of Advocacy's Frequently Asked Questions] to memory so that the next time one of your “corporate type” friends scoffs at your “cute little business” you can let her know that businesses like yours have generated 60-80% of new jobs annually in th US over the last decade. You can [...]
Idea: Sell CafePress Shirts on eBay
Here’s an interesting idea: sell shirts that you make at a CafePress store on eBay. CafePress, if you don’t know, allows you to create and sells a variety of unique merchandise, from t-shirts to coffee mugs, that you design. What interesting about the idea, is that you don’t need to actually manufacture the item before [...]
