Posts Tagged with ‘ebay’

It has only been three short months since the launch of the Facebook Platform, which gave developers an opportunity to integrate other services into the growing social network via widgets, and this first quarter proved quite impressive.
Now, there are well over 3000 applications to choose from in the Facebook application directory. Some Facebook apps have even received noticeable attention from investors and interested companies. Where I've Been is one such example, which was rumored to have sold to TripAdvisor for [...]

Joost, the P2P TV application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has now announced that more than one million users have signed up for its video service, which is still in beta testing and available by invitation only.
Niklas Zennström, Skype CEO and Joost co-founder, said at a recent Skype press event that the service should be launched before 2008 arrives. No specific date was announced, but he did say that "the plan is that the service will be fully [...]

Craigslist has long been known as the king of classifieds sites and for good reason. It is completely free of charge and utilizes a simple, no-frills design that gets the job done whether you like the look or not. Now, eBay is entering the ring with it's Craigslist rival that has finally come stateside after having operated for two years in several other countries overseas. The localized classifieds service first launched in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, China, Japan, and Taiwan [...]

On Monday Apple made its Safari Web browser available for Windows based PC's. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple made the announcement at the company's World Wide Developers Conference opening up yet another venue for competition with rival Microsoft. Wall Street was not overly impressed at the news and Apple shares dropped by $4.30 after the news. The new Beta version of Safari is available at Apple's home site. Even though Wall Street does not seem to be impressed according to [...]

Do you recall the point in time when the online world was up in arms over Google’s involvement in the censoring of information as it made its first venture into China? Of course you do. The rumors, the speculation, and the stories about the measures were front and center for a good few weeks. Those were stormy days for the company widely believed incapable of doing wrong. (The reputations of others were also tarnished a good deal for walking [...]

One can toss many companies into the circle of “Web platform providers.” Yahoo!. Microsoft (MSN). Google. They’re all part of the group. Many more are classifiable as such, too. Amazon is a platform provider. As is eBay. PayPal, existing for many years under the tutelage of eBay, even gets to hold the title itself. The list is expansive; the names mentioned here are only the most prominent of the bunch.
Why do we mention these companies? Because apparently a researcher by [...]

On occasion you find a startup that truly hopes and wishes to stand as a solo success – a mega success, even. More often, though, you come across businesses which look to build themselves up enough to look attractive to bigger fish. So that when they prowl “The Valley” in their best suits and dresses, they’ll have a decent chance of selling themselves off for a good amount of green.
Then there is the class of Web creations that neither [...]

Earlier this month, we brought you word that eBay was showing a significant amount of interesting in one of the more unique search engines on the Web, StumbleUpon. Today, we bring you news that eBay has officially acquired the recommendation site.
For the same amount the rumor mill was throwing about, too.
Yes, StumbleUpon sold its soul over to the auction-house-in-so-many-areas-of-the-tech-industry-that-it-doesn’t-know-what-to-do-with-itself for a sizable $75 million in cash. We’re still curious to learn exactly why eBay has taken a now-public $75m [...]

The world tends to revolve around one thing: money. And if Web 2.0 is about social interactions and using the Web as a platform, you'd have to expect that money would play more of a part than simply getting venture capital or monetizing your app.
While banking may have been a bit slower out of the gate than some other industries to embrace the Web 2.0 phenomenon, they are catching up quickly to use all the available tech tools to their [...]