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- Google Checkout vs. eBay PayPal: Schmidt and Whitman 'best relationship'?
- Google Checkout vs. eBay PayPal: Schmidt and Whitman 'best relationship'?What has happened to the English language?Dear Ms. Bogatin,Did you really write "...and her and Schmidt...speak several times a month"? If so, and if English is your native language, may I suggest that you voluntarily commit yourself to the G.W....
- Tags: Whitman, Google Inc., eBay Inc., Google Checkout, PayPal
- Discussion threads 2006-08-22
- eBay's Meg Whitman says voice phone calls going to zero cost
- During eBay's quarterly earnings analyst call yesterday, eBay CEO Meg Whitman rebutted criticism by a financial analyst that eBay's $4 billion purchase of Skype was too much.Whitman's reasons for this belief center around her perception that the revenues that come as a regult of the Skype acquisition will not come...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., telephone, Whitman, Meg Whitman
- Blog posts 2005-10-20
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- Can Icahn bring Microsoft's Yahoo bid back?
- Updated: Billionaire investor Carl Icahn announced an alternate board of directors for Yahoo in a move that could revive a Microsoft bid. Will Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer bite? As expected Icahn announced his alternate slate, which includes Mark Cuban, who sold Broadcast.com to...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Will eBay's Craigslist gambit backfire in the court of public opinion?
- Updated: EBay has gone public with the details of its lawsuit against Craigslist and its two shareholders Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster. While suit details alleged self-dealing by Newmark and Buckmaster and a rift over eBay's Kijiji unit, which competes with Craigslist, it's worth pondering the motives--and perceptions--here. ...
- Tags: Craigslist, eBay Inc., Newmark, Financial Accounting, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- Hillary nomination would unleash Obama's Net-driven third-party run
- Marc Wagner offered a little political analysis in a comment on my post about Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina joining the McCain campaign. I joked that the two must be "getting used to losing." Marc responded: If they nominate Obama, they can beat McCain but...
- Tags: Nomination, McCain, Democratic Obama, Team Management, Regulatory Compliance, Internet, Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- McCain: Are Tech Empresses the Ticket?
- Retiring eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman now joins ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina on John McCain's campaign and fund-raising trail. Hmm. Former and Soon-to-be former Empresses of Multi-Billion dollar dot-coms and powerful computer industry giants -- are we seeing a pattern here? Is it possible that we could we be seeing...
- Tags: Meg Whitman, Industry, John McCain, CEO, Gender And Diversity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Human Resources, Investment, Finance, Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-16
- Meg and Carly go to work for McCain
- Two high-profile women who were drummed out of their Silicon Valley companies are playing a central role in John McCain's campaign, according to the Mercury News. Meg Whitman, forced out as eBay CEO, has been tapped as national co-chair for McCain. She had been a big fundraiser...
- Tags: John McCain, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- News to know: Windows 7; eBay; Space race; Java
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 and Windows Live to get tighter Ed Bott: Vista virtualization: The bigger picture Via makes way for 64-bit chips Larry Dignan: eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Line Of Business, Java, eBay Inc., Phishing, Microsoft Windows, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Keyboards, Cyberthreats, Open Source, Security, Spam And Phishing, Operating Systems, Software, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Hardware, Peripherals
- Blog posts 2008-01-24
- eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak outlook
- eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak outlookAmid weak outlook?We've been hearing for a year now how the "core auction business is slowing"..."weak outlook'...blah, blah, blah. And yet: "eBay’s earnings were 45 cents a share, well ahead of Wall Street estimates calling for earnings of 41...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-23
- eBay CEO Whitman steps down; execs shuffled amid weak outlook
- eBay said Wednesday that CEO Meg Whitman will step down as president and CEO as of March 31. She will be replaced by John Donahoe, president of eBay's marketplace unit. The move was expected as reports leaked out that Whitman was leaving. Donahoe joined eBay in 2005...
- Tags: President, Earnings, eBay Inc., Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- eBay CEO Whitman eyes exit amid auction worries
- eBay CEO Whitman eyes exit amid auction worrieseBay = eRipOff?Sorry but there are too many competitors that actualy care what happens to the buyers.RE: eBay CEO Whitman eyes exit amid auction worriesGOOD RIDDANCE! This couldn't happen a moment too soon. I for one will not miss Meg Whitman, with the...
- Tags: eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- eBay CEO Whitman eyes exit amid auction worries
- eBay CEO Meg Whitman is reportedly pondering retirement as the online auction giant struggles with slowing growth. Makes you wonder about those fourth quarter results eh? The Wall Street Journal reports that Whitman is seriously thinking about retirement after a decade at the helm. That's a lifetime...
- Tags: Meg Whitman, eBay Inc., Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Sales Force Management, Internet, Business Structures, Sales, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft's unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...
- Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- Google OpenSocial APIs not ready for the dance
- On November 1, Google laid out the plan for OpenSocial APIs, which will allow applications to tap into the "graphs" of different social networks (Orkut, Ning, MySpace, etc.) without modification, reaching about 200 million users. Facebook hasn't endorsed the APIs, but apparently there is no big hurry. The reference implementation...
- Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Google OpenSocial, API, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-07
- eCommerce still growing - auctions not so much
- comScore just released their 3Q ecommerce numbers for the US and they paint a completely different picture about ecommerce than what I would have expected after looking at eBay's business over the last year. Thanks to Sandy from the stores board for bringing this upOnline retail spending in the third...
- Tags: eBay Inc., Auction, E-business, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, George Dearing
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Coming up: Web 2.0 Summit
- Tomorrow the star-studded Web 2.0 Summit gets underway. Co-hosted by John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly. I will be blogging from the event over the next few days and trying to figure out, once again, the import of Web 2.0. Thematically, the Summit will focus on the following questions. ...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Skype co-founder Zennstrom implies eBay overpaid for Skype
- Skype co-founder Zennstrom implies eBay overpaid for SkypeCLUELESS MANAGEMENTEVERYONE told them at the time they were overpaying. How could it be so obvious to everyone else and yet eBay management still insisted on paying that much money? CLUELESS. This makes you wonder if they run the rest of their business...
- Tags: INTERNET, E-mail, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Skype co-founder says eBay overpaid for it
- Skype co-founder says eBay overpaid for itI love those guysThe former Top Executives of Skype are complete economic anarchists...I love these guys...stick it to the man. I believe their primary reason for launching Skype was a means to deflate long distance phone charges. Kazaa was a way to share music...
- Tags: INTERNET, eBay Inc., Skype Technologies S.A.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-09
- Skype owner eBay removes JAJAH buttons from listings: touchy, Meg?
- Not long ago, I blogged over the fact that JAJAH had rolled out some cool-looking widgets that would enable eBay listers to insert them on their listings pages. Once these widgets were in place, the idea would be that JAJAH users who would want to talk directly...
- Tags: Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Amy, E-mail, Investment, Online Communications, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
- Mass hysteria? It's not like Skype's died. It's just a really bad hangover
- Of the million or so I told you so's that have already been written regarding eBay's confession that it might not get the return on its investment in Skype that it originally thought it would, I like Nicholas Carr's the best. Carr reflected on the words of eBay Meg...
- Tags: Meg Whitman, Acquisition, Skype Technologies S.A., eBay Inc., Nicholas Carr, Hindsight, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Telephony, VOIP, Telecommunications, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Networking, David Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-10-02
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