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- EBay
- (eBay, Inc., San Jose, CA, www.ebay.com) The major auction service on the Web. eBay popularized the concept of buying and selling online, and both individuals and commercial enterprises...
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- ebay: Spending on Google ads, but diversifying
- eBay CEO Meg Whitman said the company is allocating marketing dollars to Google, but also plans to spend with other partners on increase returns.On eBay's earnings conference call Whitman addressed the Google flap last month (eBay pulled its Google ads over a Google Checkout spat). Overall, eBay had a solid...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Search, Google, General, eBay, E-commerce
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- ebay's Skype, PayPal strong; listings down
- Guess eBay didn't need Google that much after all. Last month eBay pulled its Google advertising over a Google Checkout vs. PayPal spat. It was clear that eBay could do that because it had its quarter in the bag. So far so good. eBay reported second quarter earnings Wednesday of...
- Tags: Web Technology, Google, General, eBay, E-commerce
- Blog posts 2007-07-18
- One week until Mashup Camp in the Valley: Discuss, hack, compete (great prizes), & party
- Only one week remains until the fourth Mashup Camp and Mashup University are set to start at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Over the last year and a half, Mashup Camp has grown to be the unofficial official social and technical gathering for everyone with an...
- Tags: ~ Events ~, Web Technology, Utility computing, Software Infrastructure, SaaS, Mashup University, Mashup Camp, IT Management, Innovation, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, Berlind, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- News to Know: AMD benchmarks, iPhone hacking, SAP's new day
- NEWS TO KNOW on a slow news dayGeorge Ou: AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaJon Lech Johansen: iPhone Independence DayAdrian Kingsley-Hughes: Let your iPhone run wild and free … free of AT&T that isPhoto Gallery: Cracking open the iPhone...and putting it back together againGigaOm: Why AT&T should offer free...
- Tags: YouTube, Web Technology, SAP, SaaS, Oracle, News to know, Microsoft, iPhone, Google, General, eBay, Craigslist, Apple, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- Google Checkout: Gaining momentum, but big retailers wary
- Google Checkout is gaining among e-commerce Web sites, but the largest retailers remain wary because they fear sharing data with Google, according to a survey by Cowen & Co. Cowen surveyed the top 200 e-commerce Web sites and found that alternative payment platforms are catching on. Among the top e-commerce...
- Tags: Web Technology, Search, Google, General, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- ebay sends Google a message: The fallout will linger
- Google plans a stupid marketing stunt at eBay Live. eBay pulls its ads on Google. Google flinches and cancels its stunt--designed to promote the use of Google Checkout on eBay. Now let's look beyond the initial headlines to the fallout. In the Google Checkout blog, Google's take was comical. eBay...
- Tags: Web Technology, Search, Google, General, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- ebay's new APIs: Harbingers of the Net's commerce operating system to come?
- Yesterday, as can be seen from the video we captured a part of eBay's senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini's keynote address at the eBay's Developer Conference in Boston, eBay made a series of announcements. Among them, the release of two new APIs that developers can use as they...
- Tags: Yahoo, Software Infrastructure, Salesforce.com, Innovation, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, E-commerce, Berlind, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Bidding for the first invite to a Rich Internet Application on ebay
- This is kind of cool so I couldn't pass up the chance to mention it. The San Dimas project, which is the Apollo demo that nearly everyone has seen (and I got a first crack at here) is close to going public beta. In honor of that, the people on...
- Tags: Apollo, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Wal-Mart takes Skype to the masses
- Wal-Mart will offer Skype hardware and service throughout its 1,800 stores beginning today. The move, which could be a boon for growing Skypes subscriber count, means that Wal-Mart will carry headsets, webcams and handsets designed to work with Skype. ...
- Tags: eBay, General, Telecommunications, VOIP, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Meet Goog-Azon, world dominator
- Giants such as Yahoo, Google, eBay and Amazon and their ilk are going to control 50 percent of all consumer purchases by 2016 and wreak havoc on consumer businesses. These stats are tossed out by Gartner to get folks thinking. That...
- Tags: Amazon, eBay, Enterprise 2.0, Gartner Symposium, General, Google, Innovation, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-04-27
- Is ebay's purchase of Skype paying off?
- Skypes revenue for the three months ending March 31 came in at a healthy $79 million, up 123 percent from the same quarter a year ago. The revenue tally was disclosed as eBay reported strong first...
- Tags: VOIP, Telecommunications, eBay, Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- RIA summit: "Unleashing the Power of Rich Internet Applications"
- Adobe and effectiveUI are putting on a free Rich Internet Application Summit on Thursday, May 3rd, in Denver that Ill be a speaker for. While its obviously targeted at Adobe products, its going to be one of the first conference Ive seen that focuses on the business side of Rich...
- Tags: Apollo, Adobe, Rich Internet Applications, Experience, effectiveUI, eBay, Design
- Blog posts 2007-04-10
- ebay announces an ActionScript SDK
- At this mornings 360 Flex keynote, eBay announced that they have released an ActionScript SDK for eBays Web Services that will make it easier for Flash and Flex developers to build applications that leverage eBays web services. Alan Lewis has the full announcement over on the eBay Developer blog, so...
- Tags: eBay, Cooqy, Rich Internet Applications, Flash
- Blog posts 2007-03-07
- Adobe Engage: ebay's Internal Flex Applications
- eBay has been using Flex for a long time, since the 1.5 days and Tom Ortega is giving us a view of some of their internal monitoring application. This is a refreshing presentation and while the application isnt pretty, its a look at how Flex does a great job of...
- Tags: Rich Internet Applications, Flex, Flash, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- Barack Obama million dollar star in Hollywood
- Edition number 21 in this Digital Markets Blog presidential campaign 2008 series on what I am calling “User Generated Politics” “Got $2500? Mingle with Obama, plus Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen” I pointed out last week.I uncovered eBay seller ki-moon’s offer for an “exclusive” ticket to a star-studded Barack Obama fundraiser...
- Tags: Culture, Government, eBay, Marketing, Self-Promotion, User Generated Politics, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Presidential Race
- Blog posts 2007-02-20
- NetSuite joins the ebay ecosystem
- On-demand business automation provider NetSuite today adds eBay integration to its ecommerce functionality, giving customers direct visibility into and control over their eBay listings and transactions from within the NetSuite application. The integration takes advantage of eBays web services API, which provides direct programmatic access to the companys online auction...
- Tags: eBay, Ecommerce, Ecosystems, ERP, NetSuite
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- Hillary Clinton trumps Barack Obama, on ebay!
- Winning the most powerful position in the world--president of the United States--takes big money.Campaigns are not the only organizations on the presidential money trail, however.Good old fashioned American democracy is dovetailing, as usual, with good old fashioned American capitalism. What I am calling “User Generated Politics” gets commercial!In “eBay...
- Tags: Amateur Content, Culture, eBay, Hillary Clinton, Political Campaign, Politics, President Clinton, Presidential Race, Social Networking, Social Web, User Generated Politics, User-Generated Content, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-02-14
- ebay to the rescue
- Looking for "it"? eBay’s advertising pitch is "Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay.”Even snow. Snow balls, that is.New York City is the Big Apple, but no snow has fallen on the Apple so far this winter.I am not complaining, and I haven’t heard my fellow New Yorkers...
- Tags: Local, Search, Culture, eBay, Amateur Content, Marketing, Self-Promotion, ecommerce, snow, Hansen, Mary Walker
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- ebay raises fees: Half empty or half full?
- eBay will raise its fees effective Jan. 30, but its unclear whether this move is good or bad for the company. Clearly, the price increase isnt so swell for eBays merchants. As for eBay,...
- Tags: eBay Inc., General, Web Technology, eBay
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- Craig on craigslist, one more time
- In "Craigslist: Paid classifieds killer, or impetus for more lucrative classifieds business," I put forth that:It is not for Craig Newmark, Jim Buckmaster, or any member of the craigslist community, to worry about “feelings” within the newspaper industry, or about the future of the newspaper industry. Rather, it is the...
- Tags: ecommerce, Self-Promotion, Amateur Content, Social Web, Yellow Pages, CEO Interviews, Craigslist, eBay, User-Generated Content, Culture, Citizen Journalism, Local, Business Models
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
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- eBay Inc.
- eBay provides online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services, online payments services and online communication offerings to individuals and businesses. Co. operates three...
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