PayPal focusing more on mobile shopping than paymentsZDNet (blog)SAN FRANCISCO — PayPal brought its digital wallet solutions to eBay's Innovate Developer Conference 2011 this week. The show itself is dedicated to the new X.commerce open platform. A big focus for this platform is mobile payments, a hot topic that …Shop …
Read More »Sellers Say eBay Australia Is Flooded with Overseas Goods – AuctionBytes Blog (blog)
AuctionBytes Blog (blog) Sellers Say eBay Australia Is Flooded with Overseas GoodsAuctionBytes Blog (blog)Australian sellers are reporting that eBay Australia has been flooded with goods from the US and UK since eBay made changes to international site visibility. Sellers in the US would be wise to pay attention, as they …
Read More »Missoni for Target Bike Sells for Over $1200 on eBay – FashionEtc
Daily Mail Missoni for Target Bike Sells for Over $1200 on eBayFashionEtcMany of those shoppers likely snapped up the zigzag looks for themselves, friends, and family—but if eBay is any indication, some turned the in-demand designs right around … for a price. The New York Times reports that a Missoni …
Read More »eBay’s New Retail Platform is Mostly Free, So What’s the Catch?
EBay is making the tools it uses everyday for its own marketplace available to other merchants — for free. The platform, called X.commerce, was unveiled yesterday at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco and is designed to help any size retailer, ranging from family-owned stores to Toys R Us, …
Read More »Corey Maita of Gainesville Coins Joins Spectrum Group International’s … – MarketWatch (press release)
Corey Maita of Gainesville Coins Joins Spectrum Group International's …MarketWatch (press release)Selling primarily on eBay, the company quickly became a power seller ranked in the top one percent of all eBay sellers. From there, Maita and his partners successfully transitioned Gainesville from eBay to their own e-commerce-focused company website …and …
Read More »EBay Parties Like It’s 1999 – Wall Street Journal (blog)
EBay Parties Like It's 1999Wall Street Journal (blog)EBay appears to have gotten some swagger back. That's the impression given by its recent quarterly earnings (with another report due next week) – and that bonkers party it threw Wednesday. The Silicon Valley company this week headed up the … More: continued …
Read More »EBay to add image recognition to mobile offerings – USA Today
USA Today EBay to add image recognition to mobile offeringsUSA TodaySAN FRANCISCO – EBay plans to add image-recognition technology to its mobile offerings, allowing shoppers to snap photos of items they covet — such as a cute dress a friend is wearing — that an eBay app will match up …
Read More »Open Source Drupal Marks the Spot for eBay’s X.com
eBay is the latest tech giant to embrace Drupal, the open source content management system that now runs an estimated two percent of all websites on the planet. More: continued here
Read More »eBay (EBAY)’s “Neutral” Rating Reaffirmed by Piper Jaffray (PJC) Analysts – LocalizedUSA
eBay (EBAY)'s "Neutral" Rating Reaffirmed by Piper Jaffray (PJC) AnalystsLocalizedUSAeBay (NASDAQ: EBAY)'s stock had its “neutral” rating reaffirmed by equities research analysts at Piper Jaffray (NYSE: PJC) in a research note issued to investors on Thursday. The analysts currently have a $36.00 price target on the stock. …and more » More: …
Read More »EBay’s PayPal, Microsoft Move Payments to Xbox Game Consoles – BusinessWeek
Mashable EBay's PayPal, Microsoft Move Payments to Xbox Game ConsolesBusinessWeekOct. 13 (Bloomberg) — EBay Inc.'s PayPal business will expand its partnership with Microsoft Corp. to let consumers buy virtual goods over its game consoles, part of an effort to lure more users to its payment products. …PayPal Partners with Xbox …
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