Archive for November 10th, 2006
eBay Holiday Sales Helped by International Shoppers
The 2006 holiday shopping season is officially underway, and that makes ComScore Networks recent press release even more interesting. Using their World Matrix online traffic tracking and analysis, they determined that certain top web sites are receiving a higher percentage of international visitors than U.S. visitors. This affects major sites including eBay, Amazon, Google, Yahoo [...]
Terapeak Releases New Redesigned Packages for eBay
eBay-certified research provider Terapeak announced the launch of two new redesigned research packages. The Research Advantage and Research Insight include more powerful eBay seller research, the release of Terapeak’s new “one-click research,” two years of category sales data, and a customizable layout based on three years of user feedback. Terapeak has also added the ability [...]
eBay announced it had run into unexpected product-related issues while testing the Anonymous Email Forwarding feature. The feature, announced in October, allows sellers to respond to emails sent through eBay’s systems (such as Ask Seller A Question) from their own email client, while still protecting the privacy of email addresses. The new feature is important [...]
More Crack Downs on Bad eBay Sellers
Police have charged two women with stealing more than $40,000 worth of merchandise from local stores and selling it on eBay, the online auction site. Crystal Mackin, 23, of Griswold, and Pamela J. Murphy, 40, of Lisbon, were each charged Thursday with first-degree larceny and first-degree conspiracy to commit larceny. Police said the stolen merchandise [...]
New Skype Expansion Opens Doors for Newspapers
Skype, the online communication company is expanding their capabilities beyond simple internet telephony. Tuesday, Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström announced that the company plans to create areas where users, specifically bloggers, can hold live audio chats. This feature not only appeals to the general public but newspapers as well who already hold online text chats. Using [...]
Analyst’s Predict eBay to be Top Videogame Retailer
One analyst has indicated that eBay could be the top new videogame console retailer for the holidays, thanks to tight demand of the PlayStation 3 and Wii. In a note to investors, Lazard Capital Markets analyst Colin Sebastian said that limited supplies of the Wii and PS3 will drive gamers to eBay and other online [...]
Don The Idea Guy: This has got to be one of the best ideas I’ve heard in the past 30 days — you can now become an actual film producer by investing $1.00 in a film. … Here’s the kicker… the movie itself contains one-second of animation, and 90-minutes of credits — all on 70mm [...]
Staying Small to Stay Competitive
Entrepreneur Daily: If you’re working in a creative field, staying small might be to your advantage, or so thinks Elaine Cantwell. Her graphics and promotions firm, Spark Creative, employs three people and outsources back-office work. The award-winning designer stays competitive by focusing 90 percent of her time on creative work, and feels that staying small [...]
Kevin Maney at USA Today: The 800-number — for 40 years a part of daily American life — is doomed. Like what happened to pay phones. And milkmen. This would be very bad news for phone companies, which rake in $12 billion a year from toll-free numbers. The 800-number’s destiny first occurred to me a [...]
Inventor’s Home Sanitizer Sparks International Interest
The Windsor Star: Patience and ingenuity has led a Windsor man to invent a home sanitizing system that was named this week by Time Magazine as one of the top inventions of 2006. Using an electrical charge to infuse tap water with ozone, the system acts as a natural powerful sanitizer and removes the need [...]
