items tagged with eBay
Written By: Beverley Head
Section: Information technology news
Category: Software
2009-10-07 17:50:23
More than 800 developer partners – 20 of which are Australian - have signed up for the APIs which will provide them with access to PayPal’s payments platform, ahead of the official release in San Francisco next month, heralding a blizzard of new online payments applications.
Read More About Online Payments Blizzard Looms As PayPal APIs Launch...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-10-06 18:20:26
A company claiming a patent on the use of AJAX and other technologies to put interactive applications into web pages is suing Adobe, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Google, Yahoo! and other well-known companies for infringement.
Read More About Eolas Sues Technology And Retail Giants...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology people
Category: Appointments
2009-09-17 19:35:29
Web pioneer Marc Andreessen has been elected to HP's board of directors.
Read More About Andreessen Joins HP Board...
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-09-17 14:56:29
The ongoing dispute between the founders of online phone service Skype and the company they sold it to, eBay, has been ratcheted up another level with the filing of a copyright suit in U.S. District Court. The suit claims that JoltId, the software company currently owned by the Skype founders, is suffering damages of US$75 million a day from eBay's actions.
Read More About Skype Founders Sue Skype...
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-09-01 17:47:54
eBay is to Sell 65 percent of Skype for approximately $US1.9 billion in cash to an investor group led by Silver Lake and which includes Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz (a recently launched venture capital firm led by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz) and the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) Investment Board.
Read More About Partial Sale Of Skype Confirmed...
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news
Category: Market News
2009-09-01 02:52:16
The internet is abuzz with rumours that the sale of Skype to a group of private investors will be announced overnight, Australian time.
Read More About Skype To Be Sold To Private Investors?...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-08-06 18:37:57
If you're thinking of buying an iPhone app, you look in the App Store, right? Wrong! Try eBay if you're looking to buy an app lock, stock and barrel.
Read More About Top-Tens IPhone App Up For Grabs On EBay...
Written By: David Heath
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-07-30 21:50:53
eBay’s overnight filing with the SEC discloses a legal dispute between the Skype unit and the organisation from which Skype was purchased. Worst case? The entire Skype service could be terminated.
Read More About Skype May Have To Close...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-25 05:08:27
An Australian who describes himself as an entrepreneur claims he’s taken on the online auction, buy and sell giant eBay, giving users of his website – SOC Exchange – an opportunity to make some quick cash with his new “innovative” membership rewards program.
Read More About Buy & Sell Site Takes On EBay In Own Backyard...
Written By: Jake Widman
Section: Information technology news
Category: E-Commerce
2009-05-05 16:38:40
According to a UCLA archaeologist, eBay has created a worldwide market for fake artifacts -- and by so doing, has pulled the rug out from under the black market for real artifacts.
Read More About EBay Increases Trade In Fakes, Reduces Trade In Real Antiquities...
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-14 17:59:47
Skype has never sat comfortably under the eBay umbrella, and now the online auction giant has decided to spin off the popular P2P voice service. An IPO is planned for 2010.
Read More About EBay To Spin Off Skype With A 2010 IPO...
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-13 18:29:33
eBay seems to have started a new 'acquisitions buy-back' auction category as StumbleUpon is sold and Skype could be next.
Read More About EBay Sells StumbleUpon Back To Founders...
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-12 14:53:06
When the founders of Skype sold it to eBay for a total in excess of US $3 billion everyone thought it was the deal of the decade. Now it seems that might be yet to come if they can buy it back with a billion dollar discount.
Read More About A Billion Dollar Discount On Skype?...
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-04-05 06:38:42
A Christian writers’ website, Faithwriters.com, boasting 1.1 million unique visitors per month has apparently been hacked, with some 40,000 passwords believed to have been stolen and emails compromised, including those of hundreds of writers from Australia and New Zealand.
Read More About Heavens, What Are These Hackers Up To!...
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Biology
2009-03-24 09:57:24
The Australian Marine Conservation Society is putting the name of a recently discovered species of small, spotted shrimp on bid at eBay. The bidding is for environmental charity but your name could also go down in crustacean history!
Read More About Want A Shrimp Named After You? Bid On It At EBay!...
Written By: David M Williams
Section: The Linux distillery
Category: The Linux user and switcher blog
2009-01-26 07:26:41
Out of nowhere, an independent software developer has produced his own fast and fancy netbook operating system. It promises lightning boot times, an iPhone-esque icon-studded interface, modern cloud apps. The secret ingredient is Linux.
Read More About Jolly New Cloud Computing Netbook OS Seeks To Bring Market Back To Linux...
Written By: David M Williams
Section: Technology feature
Category: iPhone
2008-12-14 02:00:33
Whether the iPhone is the biggest selling phone in the world or not, it's certainly become the most publicised. Businesses are clamouring to produce customised versions of their web sites which auto-detect than an iPhone is being used and render content to suit. Yet, are these actually hampering visitors?
Read More About Are IPhone-Friendly Sites Actually A Disservice?...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-12-09 18:47:44
After launching a new auction site earlier this year, Sensis and Telstra are ratcheting up the pressure against eBay with the launch of a new “mobile” shopping and auction site that also works from mobile phones, even delivering free SMS alerts on bids, outbids and auction wins. Can Sensis bounce the eBay behemoth?
Read More About Trading Post Renews Bid To Outbid EBay - On Mobiles!...
Written By: Mike Bantick
Section: Technology Lifestyle
Category: New Services
2008-11-17 18:29:16
Sick of eBay and their PayPal pushing processes? Now there is another new kid on the block setting up a virtual Lemonade Stand. The SOC Exchange is distinguishing itself from eBay by offering a flat fee structure, rather than taking a slice of the seller’s profit.
Read More About $1 Flat Fee SOC Exchange Takes On EBay...
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-10-26 21:52:42
Finally, some positive news about the world’s largest online auction house, eBay: a way to generate the “best offer” on products for sale, which has resulted in an “average 10% increase” in conversion rates at eBay’s US website. Will it do the same down under?
Read More About EBay’S “Best Offer” Coming To Australia...
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