Posts Tagged with ‘ebay’

Right when the blogosphere is heavily engaged in discussing rumors of eBay trying to sell StumbleUpon and even suggesting Skype may be the next candidate for the online auctioning giant to sell looking to minimize costs, eBay is announcing yet another acquisition - and rather a large one at that. The acquisition object is Bill Me Later, the service that helps online merchants decide if they should provide a transactional credit to any buyer right at the moment of purchase.
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Today we hear rumors that eBay is planning to sell StumbleUpon websites discovery tool after acquiring it for $75 million last May. And people immediately began speculating if eBay we only see the beginning of eBay selling some non-core assets to focus on the main line of business facing the possible huge 10% rumored layoffs. The next candidate for sale suggested is obviously Skype since it is in a very similar position in relation to eBay’s main business as StumbleUpon [...]

Pretty much everyone who uses the internet has visited (or at least heard of) eBay, which has long been the top online auction marketplace. There are now thousands of business-minded people around the globe whose livelihood now depends solely on eBay and for good reason. Buyers can find the most rare of items, and sellers can find a buyer for the most obscure merchandise. But, eBay has been struggling since the explosion of the web 2.0 era, and other marketplace's [...]

Anyone who has sold items using eBay (or even Craigslist) knows how much more potential an item has to sell when a photo is provided. And 'actual' images are better than the 'stock' photos that some sellers download from the manufacturer's website. Prospective buyers don't just want to read a description, they want to see exactly what they would be spending their money on since some sellers can be very vague with their words.
For this reason, several services such as [...]

… in hating New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky.
Brodsky, a Democrat representing a Westchester County District, is sponsoring a bill that would limit the ability of companies to collect information for targeted advertising. Joining Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in opposing the bill are AOL, Comcast, eBay, EDS, and Facebook.
Jim Halpert, general counsel for the State Privacy and Security Coalition, claims that the bill "is unnecessary, most likely unconstitutional, and would have profound implications for the future of Internet advertising and [...]

eBay has been clearly been struggling to stay afloat in the era of the social web, and even more so in the last 2-3 years as it has lost half of its value. Its effort to go social however, with eBay Neighborhoods, is mediocre at best, and the company's decision to do away with the positive/negative feedback structure was absolutely ridiculous.
This latest move, however, seems to actually make since and could actually ease the searching process for its millions [...]

On Tuesday, the BBC launched their own green initiative, a site that “gives simple and practical advice on living a greener life that will make a difference to both the environment and your wallet.”
The site, called BBC Green, will provide articles and content that give users practical advise for achieving a more sustainable lifestyle. The content is geared toward regular people who may not have a very good understanding of what a sustainable lifestyle is, much less how to achieve [...]

A Web 2.0 community launched last month, slipping right under my radar until I spotted it on MoMB and it made me look twice. eBay apparently developed a conscience when I wasn't looking and has joined forced with World of Good, Inc. to create a new community site centralized around commerce.
The WorldofGood.com mission statement is “to provide a trusted platform where individuals can create positive change through commerce, as part of a global community.” The idea central to the site [...]

I'm a big collector of THINGS: books, music, foreign currency, vintage fashion dolls, etc. A long while back I actually ran a collector site, and thought about building an app that people could use to track their collections and estimate a secondary market value for their items. Of course, I had kids instead, but was pleasantly surprised to see someone had gone ahead and done it when I saw a blurb about Kollecta, a site organized around collectables and [...]