Archive for September 27th, 2006
Arizona Welcomes PayPal to Phoenix
-Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) President and CEO Meg Whitman, PayPal executives and Arizona area leaders met on Sept. 25 in Phoenix to celebrate PayPal’s increased presence in Arizona, commencing with the opening of the PayPal Technology Center in Scottsdale. The PayPal Technology Center, which opened earlier this year, plans to hire hundreds of [...]
U2 Fans Upset with Signed Book Sales on eBay
Thousands of U2 fans have been moved to boycott auction website eBay as books signed by the band go on sale. The Irish band held the signing at a London branch of Waterstones, allowing only 250 fans into the event. However, just hours later the books began to appear on the auctioning site, causing outrage [...]
China Branch Of eBay Getting Bought Out?
Internet auctioneer eBay Inc may sell its China operation because of strong competition from Chinese rivals. Tom Group, the media group controlled by Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, may take over eBay Eachnet and its online payment service, PayPal’s China division, media reports said yesterday. Analysts said it was unlikely that eBay would withdraw from [...]
As a consumer, you will find many great deals on items that you want and need through eBay auctions. Many people visit eBay on a daily basis looking for auctions for items that they may be interested in – simply because eBay auctions are so much fun! However, before you start buying on eBay, there [...]
Author Signs Books Over Internet
Globe and Mail: Top Canadian author Margaret Atwood will perform a transatlantic signing of her new novel from Scotland, with the aid of an internet autographing device. The award-winning writer is in Dunfermline where she will read from her latest book Moral Disorder. The event will be transmitted to Toronto in her home country where [...]
Reuters: Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on the Internet despite being only three years old. Jack’s mother told the BBC she had left her password for the eBay auction site in her computer and her son used the [...]
13 year-old Kenny Hogrefe operates in an unusual niche in the pet food business. He sells live lobster roaches, the preferred meal of many reptiles. Hogrefe started his business after the lobster roaches he bought to feed his pet chameleons began breeding more than he needed. Lobster Feeder Cockroach is commonly kept in the U.S. [...]
Arizona To Cover Insurance Costs For Small Businesses
Inc.com: In an effort to make health insurance a more realistic proposition for small businesses, Arizona has launched a new program that will help entrepreneurs foot the bill. The Department of Revenue program, which began on Sept. 21, provides coupons worth as much as 50% of insurance premiums to uninsured small businesses with two to [...]
Rush Is On For ‘Dot-Mobi’ Domains
TechWeb Technology News: Registrations began Tuesday for .mobi top level domain names for mobile wireless devices and cell phones. The names are available on a first-come first serve basis, though many common domain names have already been awarded to wireless companies and trademarked names. They had first dibs on suffixes for web pages formatted for [...]
