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Skype has had its most tumultuous year yet, but all the problems are finally behind it and the company can focus on growth and revenue as opposed to lawsuits. eBay has announced that it has finalized the sale it first revealed several months ago and that Skype is now a separate private company, although eBay still re... |
20 November 2009
08:40 GMT |
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It's official, the Skype saga is finally over, with all parties involved most likely satisfied with the results, though not exactly thrilled. eBay got rid of Skype, allowing it to focus on its other assets, most notably PayPal, the investors got a nice piece of the VoIP service and Skype's founders also got... |
6 November 2009
09:50 GMT |
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ebay is moving forward with the next phase of its payment platform, PayPal, by opening it up to developers. The new API, dubbed PayPal X, was announced last summer, but eBay is finally ready to make it available to everyone wanting to integrate some sort of payment option into their app or site. This is the first ste... |
4 November 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be heading towards a resolution, as the parties involved are closer to a settlement. But, as expected, there are a couple of concessions that the company had to make in order to make things work. The agreement is between Skype's founders, the ones behind all of the lawsuit... |
4 November 2009
03:58 GMT |
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Skype's legal troubles may finally be getting closer to an end, as Skype's founders and eBay are apparently in talks for a settlement. According to the GigaOm blog, sources close to the talks say that the two parties are going over their differences, but the discussions could still go either way and are far... |
2 November 2009
03:45 GMT |
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PayPal has consistently been a bright spot for eBay and is seeing strong growth in revenue as well as volume transaction. But it looks like it's hardly close to what the company envisions its payment system will become. One great step in taking it to the next level is opening up the platform to allow developers ... |
23 October 2009
10:05 GMT |
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EBay has just announced its third quarter financial results which, despite being better than expected, still managed to drive down share prices after the company also predicted a slightly worse performance in the coming quarter. eBay managed to bring in $2.23 billion in revenue in Q3, a six percent bump over last yea... |
22 October 2009
11:38 GMT |
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There are a lot of Xbox 360 fans out there that have dug deep into their pockets to purchase a limited edition console or paid to have their rig modified with some unique concept art. But to believe that someone would pay at least 1.1 million dollars for an Xbox 360 is close to lunacy. The item is signed by former Al... |
6 October 2009
15:01 GMT |
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The start date of a trial between Craigslist and eBay has been postponed by a Delaware court and the trial is now expected to begin in December. This is now the second delay in the trial between the online classifieds site and the ecommerce giant over the fact that two majority shareholders with Craigslist have worke... |
5 October 2009
08:42 GMT |
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A couple of months ago, eBay and General Motors launched a pilot program to sell new cars online through a dedicated site but also through eBay Motors, the auctions site's automotive arm. The program was limited to California and the scope was to find out if an online presence could boost the sales for local dea... |
30 September 2009
06:21 GMT |
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EBay is on track to sell Skype despite the mounting legal issues, eBay CEO John Donahoe said. Earlier this month the company announced that it had reached an agreement with several private equity investors to buy a 65 percent stake in the VoIP company for $1.9 billion. Skype has been involved in a lawsuit with a comp... |
24 September 2009
04:03 GMT |
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When eBay announced it had sold a majority stake in Skype a few weeks behind, it looked like all its problems were mostly over. This week's developments turned that expectation on its head after Joltid sued Skype for several counts of copyright infringement. Just a few days later, Joost, another company controll... |
19 September 2009
05:24 GMT |
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After crying and fighting in the press like little babies, Google and eBay called it a truce and quietly put in place a partnership over the paid advertising space on eBay's website. Previously, this advertising space was filled with ads coming from Yahoo!'s Right Media Exchange, but since August 26th these... |
18 September 2009
07:59 GMT |
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The Skype deal has managed to complicate itself so much that a reader can lose track of events as days go by. Times Online has reported that Skype's original founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have filed a copyright infringement claim at the District court of North Carolina, accusing eBay of sharing and... |
17 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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With the new owners announced just last week, Skype is already starting to make changes, but that doesn't always mean they're for the better. In fact, the first move is to axe Skype's effort to create a third-party app environment that the Skype Extras Developer Program launched with much enthusiasm a ... |
12 September 2009
02:30 GMT |
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The Skype deal proves to have some messy complications, at least for some. Yesterday, Joost, the troubled online video company, announced that it outed former CEO Michelangelo Volpi from his latest position as chairman of the board. What does this have to do with Skype? Volpi is now general partner at Index Ventures,... |
12 September 2009
01:55 GMT |
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The eBay developer program will roll out a new version for its Trading API, which will give developers incorporating eBay services the possibility to exclude users coming from a specific country and bidding on a product. The exclusion is achieved through settings done to the list of allowed shipping locations. These... |
9 September 2009
03:48 GMT |
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The Sun – Oracle merger makes another victim. One of Sun's veterans, Dean Nelson, has left his job with Sun to join eBay as the senior director of global data center strategy, architecture, and operations, citing job “uncertainty.” This move comes after eBay's Data Center Chief Operator, O... |
9 September 2009
03:00 GMT |
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EBay has announced the sale of its VoIP service Skype to a group of investment companies, confirming the previous speculation. EBay will retain 35 percent of the company, with the other 65 percent being sold for $1.9 billion in cash and a note from the buyer in the principal amount of $125 million. The transaction is... |
1 September 2009
11:02 GMT |
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Online retail is big business and the market still has a lot of potential growth in it. Brick-and-mortar retail giant Walmart knows this, of course, but so far its online foray hasn't been as successful as it hoped. In a move that is meant to allow Walmart.com to better tackle the likes of Amazon and increasingl... |
1 September 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Rumors of an impending Skype sale are getting more substantial after first popping up last week. The gist of the deal is that eBay will sell Skype to a group of private investors made up of venture capital funds and private equity firms. Among the likely names put forward is the newly formed Andreesen Horowitz fund, ... |
1 September 2009
03:14 GMT |
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The Skype acquisition wasn't one of the smartest moves eBay made. This, despite being one of the few bright spots in its inventory and seeing a 25 percent rise in revenue in Q2 this year. Still, the company plans to spin off Skype as a separate entity in an IPO sometime next year but now there may be another opt... |
28 August 2009
06:51 GMT |
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eBay developer accounts may have been compromised by an unknown security flaw. On August 10, 2009, in an announcement from Kumar Kandaswamy, manager of the eBay Developer Program, the e-commerce giant revealed that a dangerous security flaw had been discovered in the Developer Program.According to Mr. Kandaswamy, no ... |
13 August 2009
08:26 GMT |
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EBay is moving further away from the auction-based service that made the company the giant it is today and more into online retailer territory. In a move first rumored a month ago, eBay will start to sell new GM cars online on a co-branded site at gm.ebay.com. This is just a trial run set to end on September 8 and on... |
10 August 2009
10:00 GMT |
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EBay acquired Skype in 2005, planning to integrate it with its auctions site to provide communication tools to sellers and buyers. It didn't quite turn out as planned, though the service is making decent amounts of money, and now eBay wants to spin off the company in an IPO, but those plans may be derailed by a ... |
31 July 2009
06:17 GMT |
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EBay was once one of the most powerful and most popular companies online but time hasn't been especially kind to the company, with its main business, the auction site with the same name, seeing a decline in user numbers and, more importantly, in revenue. In a move to revive its Marketplaces unit eBay has announc... |
28 July 2009
06:22 GMT |
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EBay's financial results for the second quarter came in yesterday and, while overall they weren't too encouraging, with the Internet giant seeing a 29 percent drop in net income, the highlight of the report was the solid growth its Payments division, made up of PayPal and Bill Me Later, had posted. So it�... |
24 July 2009
07:09 GMT |
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Ebay's financial results for the second quarter came in and they're pretty much in keeping with the rest of the industry and the general trend, with revenue and income slightly down but ahead of analysts’ expectations. Revenue dipped 4.5 percent, from $2.2 billion in Q2 2008 to $2.1 billion in this ye... |
23 July 2009
04:11 GMT |
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eBay isn't going through its best period yet and has seen a steady decline for several years now. The auction site, once one of the biggest on the web, saw a 33 percent decline in page views in the last year with the number of unique visitors also dropping but at a smaller rate. Meanwhile, newly revamped, GM mig... |
11 July 2009
05:50 GMT |
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Skype hasn't proven the success eBay was hoping for when it bought the company in 2005 for $2.6 billion. The idea at the time was to integrate the voice-chat capabilities in its auction site, offering users a way to communicate, but it since gave up on the thought and recently announced plans to spin off the com... |
27 June 2009
08:16 GMT |
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The UK High Court has ruled in the favor of eBay in their case against L'Oreal. The court decided that the online auction site couldn't be held legally responsible for the sale of counterfeit L'Oreal products and that it wasn't in the position to verify if the items sold were legitimate. The Frenc... |
23 May 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Blizzard is one of the most popular video game developers and publishers, thanks to the great titles it has released up until now and due to the fact that it maintains a close relationship with its user and fan base, who can interact with the large corporation on many levels. For such fans BlizzCon is held, an event... |
18 May 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The large online marketplace site eBay, which was launched about a decade ago, has made archaeologists fear from the start that the number of looted antiquities that could be moved via the Internet would increase considerably. For example, Charles Stanish, who is a UCLA archaeologist with more than 25 years of experi... |
5 May 2009
07:00 GMT |
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Because Botox treatment has become such a common topic of discussion and, more importantly, such a regular practice, people tend to forget that it’s actually a poison that, applied incorrectly, can cause permanent damage to the muscles of the face. This is precisely the warning that British consumer watchdog Wh... |
30 April 2009
17:01 GMT |
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Rumors that eBay is planning to sell Skype have been officially proven correct in the sense that the giant company indeed intends to separate from the popular calling service Skype, and the first step in this direction is an initial public offering (IPO) planned for the first half of next year – its exact date... |
16 April 2009
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Recently, it has been revealed that the European founders of the most well-known VoIP service, namely Skype, are trying to become its rightful owners again by purchasing it back from eBay. The persons in question are Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who have reportedly approached a number of private equity firms and... |
15 April 2009
01:59 GMT |
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Following the official availability of Internet Explorer 8 RTW (release to web), Yahoo and now eBay have introduced optimized versions of the browser, tailored to their respective services. Earlier this week, you have been able to read about and access the download for the IE8 flavor tailored to Yahoo. But eBay is al... |
27 March 2009
06:13 GMT |
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The Nokia E71x, one of the most beautiful handsets unveiled by the Finnish maker, has been reported a while ago to be heading for the AT&T shelves. The model is stated to be an all-black version, as the one spotted back in December on few sites, and the latest news shows the AT&T-branded variant as coming to meet its... |
10 January 2009
04:28 GMT |
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Does anyone need more proof regarding the impact of the world wide economic crisis on the videogames market? Those who do should look no further than the recent data offered by Video Game Price Charts, which is a pricing data site watching the way the so called “gray market” is evolving. Basically, the si... |
8 January 2009
03:36 GMT |
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A forum user delighted his fellow members with detailed pictures and specs of a prototype MacBook Air. The laptop, acquired from eBay, runs an interim build of Mac OS X 10.5 (8R4016), while the serial number on the machine indicates that it was built in May 2007, well before the original MacBook Air was introduced. ... |
19 November 2008
05:08 GMT |
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Mobile phone freaks that are always getting their handset replaced by the latest model available on the market will be disappointed that the process won't be possible once they buy a new Motorola Aura. The latest addition to Motorola's luxurious portfolio is supposed to sell for no less than 1500 EUR. Even ... |
4 November 2008
10:12 GMT |
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Tommy Joe Tidwell of Dayton, Ohio, pleaded guilty for orchestrating a conspiracy that netted over $1 million through the acquisition and resell of merchandise with artificially lowered prices. The man risks a sentence of maximum 40 years in prison, because he and his associates tampered with the bar codes of products... |
4 November 2008
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The NPD Group has conducted a new study regarding the way customers approach buying and storing videogames. The study was commissioned by the Content Delivery and Storage Association and the Entertainment Merchants Association and shows that a lot of gamers, around 11%, have at least one game in the original packagin... |
29 October 2008
15:41 GMT |
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With all the environmental challenges we’re currently facing, such as the melting of the polar icecap or the continuous degradation of air quality, giant enterprises also feel they must do something more ambitious than just train their employees to sort the garbage they throw out. eBay has decided to launch a s... |
3 September 2008
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An Australian woman decided to put up for auction a letter written by her ex-husband, in which he basically let her know that the two of them shared the same tastes in men. And where would she find a better auction house than on eBay? The two and their two children had been a family for over 20 years when the husband... |
1 September 2008
04:20 GMT |
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An IT manager who bought a second-hand computer from eBay discovered that the hard disk of the machine contained the bank information of 1 million persons. The computer, which was sold for £35 (approximately $75), had previously belonged to Graphic Data, a company that stores information of clients of banks and... |
27 August 2008
20:40 GMT |
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Back in 2004, lawyers for Tiffany filed a lawsuit against eBay, claiming that the Internet marketplace knowingly permitted the sale of counterfeited products claiming to be Tiffany originals. One month ago, we reported that eBay had won the case against the jewelry giant. However, people expected that Tiffany would f... |
12 August 2008
07:16 GMT |
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A recent comScore study showed that the popularity that Yahoo! is enjoying in the UK is growing smaller with each month. The websites of the search engine were used by merely 4.3% of the Britons in June. The stats from May showed that Yahoo!'s share of the search market had risen to 4.7% of the audience. Neverth... |
6 August 2008
12:22 GMT |
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Britons continue to be most interested in portals, search engines and conversational media when they are navigating the web. Although the largest part of the population prefers these three types of online applications, the number of people using them has been rather stagnant over the last months. In June, as a comSco... |
29 July 2008
06:42 GMT |
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With all the hype surrounding the new iPhone 3G, as well as the continuous shortages worldwide, eBay has again become the last resort for true fans of the device. Sadly, though, units on eBay go for as much as $1,000 a piece. More affordable offers range from $800 to $900."Bidding on one auction for a seller's 1... |
24 July 2008
05:38 GMT |
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