Archive for March 19th, 2007
Is It Really Time to Buy eBay Stock?
The Street appears to be growing more optimistic that eBayâs (EBAY) first quarter results could beat expectations. J.P. Morganâs Imran Khan wrote today that based on analysis of both listings and revenue per listing, he is âcomfortableâ? that the company is âtracking ahead of Street consensusâ? for the quarter of $1.71 billion in revenue and [...]
Charity Group Auctions Off Enron Executives Desks
Once the centre of power, the desk of former Enron Corp founder and chief executive officer Ken Lay is up for sale on eBay Inc. The Houston-based charity Saving Animals Across Borders is also auctioning the desk that Jeffrey Skilling and Richard Kinder used when they were presidents of the now-defunct energy company. Lay and [...]
USPS Partnering Up with eBay to Help Sellers
The U.S. Postal Service, which has lost many customers to cyber communication, is increasing online appeal by strengthening its eBay association. More than 75 area eBayers attended seminars Friday at the Gary main post office on Martin Luther King Drive, learninghow they could use the post office to ship CDs,books, antiques and other wares. “We [...]
Skypes High Tech Speakerphone – The Polycom Communicator
At the other end of the VoIP spectrum are the phones that you use when you aren’t mobile. This one is from Polycom, and it has the ubiquitous name of Communicator. This Skype-based phone is basically a snazzy-looking speakerphone. Click on the Communicator to make or take phone calls, without the hassle of a headset. [...]
Skype Slowing Moving Into The Corporate World
There are many good reasons why Skype is slowly making its way into the corporate world: It’s free, and you can forget about country codes, telephone numbers, and long-distance bills. With a mouse click, you’re talking, or even videoconferencing, with any of the 170 million Skype users worldwide. But there are also good reasons why [...]
AuctionBytes Follow Up On eBays Shift
Last summer, there was a seismic shift in the online-auction industry when eBay significantly increased fees for Store inventory and urged sellers to move items from Stores to the core auction platform. These moves came after eBay had heavily promoted Stores and had given Store listings more exposure on core early in the year, leaving [...]
Cool Website Ideas: This interesting website offers a new concept to offer individuals the ability to hire out their personal items for cash and to make money. Owned and operated from the United Kingdom, the website acts as a classifieds advertising portal, providing details about items that individuals have for hire — not for sale [...]
This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is up at Dispatches from Blogblivion.
AZCentral.com: Valerie Peters, 43, is an 18-year resident of Ahwatukee. Peters was a metallurgical engineer for Honeywell when she had her second child. She went back to work for six weeks then quit to start a home business in August 1996 with one computer and one laser printer. She read a book on mailing list [...]
Young Entrepreneur Turns Paper Into Money
PR.com: This is a true and inspiring story of a 22 Year old Entrepreneur that transformed a regular piece of paper into a full time advertising business. Phillip Tapia is the founder and president of Tray Display Advertising, Inc. The Business Opportunities Weblog first introduced you to Tapia back in October 2006. Phillip developed a [...]
Invention Has Chance To Become ‘Modern Marvel’
The Daily Times: When Dan Williams gets an idea for a new invention, his goal is to make it as useful on as many different levels as is humanly possible. A former 11-year officer with the Florida Marine Patrol , Williams came up with the idea for the StayAlive while bobbing along in a boat, [...]
Christopher Null at Yahoo Tech: I don’t know about you, but the morning is always when I’m at my least productive. It’s not that I’m especially lazy or incapable of operating before noon, but I just seem so scattered, so overwhelmed with different projects and leftover remnants of to-do lists from the previous day that [...]
