Archive for March 12th, 2007
Online marketplace eBay has awarded its PR account to Hill & Knowlton after a competitive review process. H&K won the business in February. The value is undisclosed. This makes H&K the first agency of record in eBay’s history, said Joe Paluska, H&K director, technology practice worldwide. H&K wins eBay account – PRWeek US
eBay Executives Get Aggressive with Phishing
eBay CEO Meg Whitman has outlined an aggressive plan the online auction giant plans to follow to combat online fraud known as âphishingâ? scams, but so far analysts arenât biting. They say the plan doesnât go far enough to protect eBayâs community of users. âThereâs simply no way to shut down all fraud completely,â? said [...]
Ebay & Tom Online Hit a Rough Patch
A joint venture company in China operated by Internet auction pioneer eBay Inc. and China’s Tom Online Inc. appears to be hitting a rough patch even before the venture sells a single item. As previously reported, on Dec. 19 eBay and Tom Online announced their intent to jointly own and operate an online auction business [...]
Long Term Skype Will Efftect Voice Call Revenue
Oracle released the results of a global Communications industry survey, conducted on its behalf, by the Economist Intelligence Unit, revealing that over 80 percent of industry executives believe that voice calls will no longer make-up the primary revenue source for communications carriers within six years. Furthermore, over half of the senior executives questioned believe this [...]
Inventor’s Baseball Cap To Light World
Stuff.co.nz: Simon Dyer, a software development manager by day and inventor by night, has spent the past three years developing the 2C, a solar-powered baseball cap that includes two high-powered LED lights controlled by a microprocessor. The product is aimed at campers, tradesmen, emergency workers or anyone else who needs a rechargeable source of light. [...]
Niche Biz: Hair Care For Men Without
New York Times News Service: For most of recent grooming history, having a totally bald pate was a look most likely found among men with formidable personalities and names to match — Kojak, Yul, Ike, Warbucks, Mr. Clean. It wasn’t a look for John over in accounting. But in the late 1980s, Michael Jordan shaved [...]
Hot Niche Market: Pre-College Prep
TrendCentral: Due to the increasingly competitive landscape of college admissions, the business of private pre-college guidance counseling is booming. This SoCal company is offering to help ease the application process for high school seniors on a larger scale. Curreri College Counseling’s One Stop College Shop is a five-day program designed to give students the information [...]
Entrepreneur Daily: The Patent and Trademark Office is beginning a pilot program that will post patent applications on the internet and open them up to comments and a community rating system. The system resembles the look of the user-created online encyclopedia, Wikipedia. So far, the list of volunteers willing to try the new patent system [...]
Forbes: Back in 2004, the Internal Revenue Service audited 1.9 of every 1,000 tax returns, down from 5.1 in 1996. Now it’s getting serious. Audits are no fun. They suck entrepreneurs’ precious time, and worse, can lead to yet more audits down the road. Unfortunately, auditors’ nets can scoop up unwitting offenders and willful evaders [...]
