Posts Tagged with ‘ebay’

There?s Kiva. There?s Accion International. There?s Opportunity International. And now there?s MicroPlace, an eBay company.
What are they? Microfinance groups and organizations, spread across the globe, whose purpose it is to offer entrepreneurs and small businesses in places where poverty disables such people and their enterprises of the possibility of growth the ability to expand, invest in more materials, and get hold of new tools in order to increase production, and, generally speaking, better their communities as a result. Sounds [...]

Today, StumbleUpon, the company whose claim to fame is a nifty shuffle-like technology that provides Web browsers (people, not software programs) with the option to discover new facets (a.k.a.: sites) of the Internet quickly and easily, announced an addendum to its product/service. The new addition will allow for it to venture out of the toolbar and into webpages themselves.
Well, those of search engines, at least. StumbleUpon has unveiled SearchReviews, a feature that, aside the ranking of links on engines like [...]

In an effort to increase the slowing growth rate of the leading online auction marketplace, eBay has launched a new section of its website, known as eBay Neighborhoods, which is intended to provide a social network, across which eBay users can better communicate and contribute to a worthwhile shopping experience.
eBay's second quarter results, posted in July, were impressive, but new item listings on eBay's core shopping site declined by 6% from a year earlier while power seller listings were down [...]

Niklas Zennstrom, co-founder of the globally phenomenal VoIP institution, Skype, recently spoke at a conference in Budapest about the company?s substantial success in a supposed effort to quell unease about seemingly low financial returns recently released by the entity?s proprietor, eBay.
Currently occupied with running the IPTV venture, Joost, Zennstrom highlighted Skype?s achievement of attaining some 220 million users, and predicted that the company would begin to garner ?substantial income? further down the road. Skype brought in $90 million in revenue [...]

There’s Amazon and its copycats for the online retail of physical goods (leaving aside the fact that Amazon is now working the intangible side of the digital retail world as well). Why not erect something similarly multifaceted (in the way that Amazon sells different types of goods and not only books) without involving so much as a cardboard box or a pint of diesel between seller and buyer?
That’s what the folks being Zipidee (I’m not fond of the [...]

From June 2004 to May 2005, an estimated 73 million US adults said they definitely, or think, received an average of more than 50 phishing e-mails in the past year. According to the FTC, email has quickly become the number one method of contact for scams. In August 2007 alone, PhishTank verified almost 9,000 phishing scams out of 12,490 submitted.
For these reasons and more three major websites have announced a "collaborative effort to better protect consumers against fraudulent e-mails and [...]

Skype is big. It?s almost certainly the largest VoIP network in the world, and perhaps even the grandest telecom entity around, too, if one is speaking strictly of the number of individuals using its software and services. Its membership currently stands at roughly 220 million.
But as far as the company?s finances are concerned, its proprietor says its not doing all that well.
What eBay valued at $2.6bn back in 2005 (so very long ago, eh?) is now being [...]

VoIP services have been quite a popular bunch as of late, with the promises of inexpensive and often free calls to friends and family. Of course, it goes without saying that the current exceptions are SunRocket, which has now shut its doors, and Vonage, which has been hit wit legal troubles and is now on its last leg.
That is why I found it so refreshing to hear of a new innovative service that is free of charge and devoid of [...]

The massive popularity of the top social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, etc.) has led to more social networks on the web than most people even know about.
Although there is no "openness" between social networks as of now, DigFoot is out to at least keep track of all those social networks with a categorized directory.
DigFoot even has its own social aspects that allows users to rate and review networks so that other users can best pick what social networks they would [...]