Charity Shopping Launched On eBay India
Posted on June 23rd, 2010 | 0 CommentseBay India has announced the launch of a new charity category that will showcase products from NGO (Non-Gazetted Organizations) like CRY, Save The Children, Sparrow Shelter, Women’s India Trust, etc. The category is expected to give greater prominence to products sold by these NGOs to a worldwide audience of tech-savvy online shoppers. At present, more [...]
Paypal Grows Ten-Fold In Australia
Posted on June 15th, 2010 | 0 CommentseBay’s online transaction service provider, Paypal has announced that the company’s growth has been on the up, down under. In a recent statement, the company has announced a ten-fold growth in the Australian market with close to 50% of Australia top 100 online retailers now using the Paypal platform as a payment option on the [...]
Skype Not Strategic Fit For eCommerce : eBay
Posted on June 12th, 2010 | 0 CommentsWhy did eBay buy and then sell Skype with just marginal profit? It has everything to do with incompatibility, says John Donahoe – the CEO of eBay. Justifying his company’s decision to sell Skype, Donahoe says that the VoIP service provider was not a useful tool for real time communication between buyers and sellers to [...]
Paypal Car Integration Coming In Future
Posted on May 24th, 2010 | 0 CommentsPaypal could integrate its technology to your car so that you may be able to automatically trigger payments while passing through a toll bridge, park your car or while visiting a fuel station. This was revealed in a recent conversation by Paypal President Scott Thompson. He said, “Companies are building automation into cars, so that [...]
Paypal To Enable Expense Sharing Over Network
Posted on May 17th, 2010 | 0 CommentsA patent application filed by eBay back in Novemeber 2008 and revealed just recently throws light on a new feature that will enable a group of users to share an expense while making a purchase. Conventionally, a single user has to make the payment for goods online and online tools only help the user in determining [...]
eBay Wins Crucial Patent For Its Online Auction Model
Posted on April 20th, 2010 | 0 CommentseBay has won a crucial patent that grants the company the rights to the entire online auctioning model that exists today. The announcement from USPTO comes over 11 years since the company first applied for a patent to this technology. The patent titled, “Computer-implement method and system for conducting auctions on the internet” describes its [...]
Verizon To Partner With Skype On International Calling Service?
Posted on February 13th, 2010 | 0 CommentsVerizon has released a media statement announcing a joint news conference with Skype on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress at Barcelona next week. There is not enough details provided on the specifics of the conference though indications are that it could be about a partnership on cheaper international calls. AT&T and Verizon have [...]
Skype To Make Creating and Sharing Media Presentations Easier
Posted on January 9th, 2010 | 0 CommentsSkype is apparently working on technology to help users create media presentations from the Skype window itself. In a patent recently published by eBay, the company explains the problems in the current form of creating media presentations. The inventors write “a user must typically purchase conventional media presentation software, which may be expensive, create a [...]