EBay Cutting Listing Fees, Boosting Commissions
EBay Inc. said Tuesday it will cut by up to 50 percent the fees it charges sellers to list their goods online, in an effort to boost listings and keep pace with...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/30/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

Wisdom of the Web
It may be a little late to the game, but business travel is now the subject of a variety of blogs. In the last two years, companies in the travel business including...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/29/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

Despite Housing Slide, Real Estate Sites Sell
Although most of the real estate industry wishes it could fast-forward through 2008, a few online start-ups are surviving nicely.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/28/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

EBay’s New Leader Moves Swiftly on a Revamping
In an effort to reinvigorate growth, John Donahoe, the new chief executive of Internet giant eBay, said he would shift the company’s emphasis from auctions to fixed priced listing.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/24/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

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?
eBusiness News | Posted 01/22/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

New Crop of Internet-based Retailers is Gaining Traction
In 2001, the Internet's retailers were suddenly endangered species. Droves of them fell victim to an evolving environment and greedy humans, leaving a dilapidated...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/10/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

Amazon Launches Software Downloads
Online retailer Amazon has launched a software download section. And when we say launched, we mean, they've built a software downloader application which you ...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/07/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

Put Buyers First? What a Concept
As the case of Amazon.com reveals, maybe taking care of customers is something worth doing when you are trying to create a lasting company.
eBusiness News | Posted 01/06/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

JPMorgan Predicts 2008 Will Be “Nothing But Net”
JPMorgan’s Internet analyst Imran Khan and his team released a massive 312-page report this morning titled Nothing But Net that paints a bullish picture for the major Internet...
eBusiness News | Posted 01/02/2008 | eBay & eCommerce

In Restless Pursuit of Craigslist’s Success
Kijiji is trying to capitalize on eBay’s clout to compete with the Web’s most spectacularly successful underdog, Craigslist.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/31/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Online Holiday Sales Ho-Ho-Hold Up
Amid news of higher gas prices, lower home values and falling stocks, for the past several months pundits and prognosticators have been predicting a dismal holiday sales season.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/27/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Apple's Record Breaking Year
Year in review: Apple started 2007 with a name change, and proceeded to firmly establish itself as a consumer electronics company.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/26/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Retail Firms Treat Web Customers Best
Apparel chains and mass merchandisers ranked high in The Customer Respect Group's "Customer Respect Index," which measured a customer's experience when interacting...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/26/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

WTO Gives Antigua Only $21 Million In Sanctions
The battle between the US and Antigua over online gambling is rather long. You can go back here to read a summary of the back and forth...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/22/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Wading Into Amazon's Murky Water
Stock Spotlight: The online retailer's stock has grown by leaps and bounds in 2007. But is Wall Street too optimistic?
eBusiness News | Posted 12/20/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

The Depth of eBay’s Problems 2: Angry Sellers
Here’s another angle on what’s wrong at eBay: Sellers increasingly find eBay’s fees to be too expensive and are becoming successful at finding buyers on Amazon.com...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/19/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

EU and US Reach Online Gambling Deal
Online gaming companies in Europe were dealt a blow on Monday as the European Union accepted a US offer to open some other services markets as compensation ...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/17/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

That Online Chat 'Assistant' May Not be Real
A start-up firm is using automated chat to keep online customers from abandoning their virtual shopping carts.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/17/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Start-Up to Create Market For Trade of Virtual Goods
A start-up plans to help game companies get a grip on the booming illicit market for virtual goods, including everything from currencies to magical swords that help...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/17/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

eBay Plans to Root Out Unethical Sellers
EBay will focus on improving the "user experience" in 2008 in hopes of making the world's largest online auction more satisfying for its millions of users, a top executive said.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/13/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Amazon Enters Alternative Payment Game
Amazon said Tuesday that it will invest in Bill Me Later, an alternative payment technology, and make it available as an option on Amazon.com.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/11/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

CompUSA to Close All of Its 103 Stores
Consumer electronics retailer CompUSA said Friday it will close its stores after the holidays following sale of the company to an affiliate of Gordon Brothers...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/08/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

More Clicks at the Bricks
How retail stores are scrambling to catch up with shoppers empowered by the Web. A couple of years ago, Erik B. Nordstrom, store president for his family's retailing...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/08/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

EBAY: Time For CEO Meg Whitman to Go?
We realize this may sound like heresy, but we think it's time for eBay shareholders to consider nudging CEO Meg Whitman out the door.
eBusiness News | Posted 12/07/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Postal Rate Change to Wallop Netflix, Help BBI?
Another reason for Netflix to hurry up and transition to a purely digital model: A potential postal rate change could cut the company's operating income per subscriber...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/05/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

EBay to Try Again in Japan by Using Help From Yahoo
EBay and Yahoo Japan said Tuesday that they would link up their auction sites to make cross-border bidding easier, in a deal that will give eBay another chance...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/04/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Small Merchants Gain Large Presence on Web
Mom-and-pop retailers have helplessly stood by over the last decade as big-box merchants steamrolled over them. Online, though, small merchants are not going ...
eBusiness News | Posted 12/03/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

'Cyber Monday' Online Shopping Breaks Record
Online-retail sales on what's being called "Cyber Monday" hit a record of $733 million, according to data released Tuesday by comScore Inc.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/28/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Person-to-Person Lending Online Gathers Steam
Colin Nash, 35, was struggling with $12,000 in credit card debt late last year. Meanwhile, Michael Fisher, 24, was looking for a new investment. So, Fisher loaned Nash $200.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/28/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Yahoo Stores Crash on Cyber Monday : Merchants Outraged
One of the largest online shopping days of the year, Cyber Monday brought in over an estimated $700 million in online sales yesterday, but not via Yahoo Stores...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/27/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Online Retailers Hit 4.6M Visitors a Minute
Cyber Monday traffic and sales reported at a blistering pace. Retailers say 72 million people will shop sometime during the day.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/27/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Tiffany and eBay in Fight Over Fakes
A lawsuit by Tiffany & Company, which claims that eBay enables the trading of counterfeit items, could threaten the online marketplace’s business model.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/27/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday
A surge of e-commerce traffic on Thanksgiving night and all day Friday apparently caught several retail giants by surprise, with Lowe's, Macy's and Victoria's...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/26/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

A Gimmick Becomes a Real Trend
Two years ago, Cyber Monday - the first Monday after Thanksgiving - was a marketing strategy in search of shoppers. This year, it seems to be a genuine trend.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/26/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Beat The Mobs on 'Cyber Monday'
If you didn't shop enough over the weekend, or you purposely avoided the mobbed malls, you have another chance to save on holiday gifts when you return to the office on Monday.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/25/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Web Bidding Help Drives Live Auctions
His chanting is rhythmic and rapid, a staccato string of numbers that quickly grows hypnotic as auctioneer Kevin Teets scans the audience, eyes darting between...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/25/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Web Research Drives More Real-World Purchases
E-commerce purchases are expected to grow a healthy but unspectacular 17 to 20 percent this holiday season over last year’s.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/24/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Young Adults Click with Holiday Shopping
Young adults in the US will increase their holiday spending by 10% this season, to $634 per person, according to researcher Youth Trends.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/22/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

World Wide Web: Land of Free Stuff
You want it? It's yours. From a college education to your favorite shampoo, it's all happening gratis on the Internet.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/22/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

US Holiday Shopping Up By A Billion Dollars
Despite a slow start in November, online US non-travel retail topped $7 billion for the first 18 days of the holiday season, an increase of $1 billion from the same period in 2006.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/22/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Credit Cards Lose Ground to PayPal
Internet-based payment services are growing in popularity, as PayPal and others capitalize on fear of identity theft and payment fraud.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/21/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

PayPal Offers Secure Way to Shop Non-PayPal Sites
PayPal, the payments service arm of online auction leader eBay Inc, is set to release on Tuesday a convenient way for its customers to make payments on Web sites...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/19/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

What to Do When Goliaths Roar?
By presenting holiday sale prices in a single database, the Internet has made it easy to compare prices — too easy, at least in the eyes of many retailers.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/18/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Amazon PR: Neither Open Nor Social
Is Amazon supporting Open Social? If they are, that would be big news. If they have decided not to, that would be big news too.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/16/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

E-retailers Increase Alternate Pay Options
Some consumers continue to worry about identify theft and fraud from online purchases with credit cards, which has retailers increasingly using alternative payment systems.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/14/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Online Travel Up, Customers Down
The number of North American consumers who take leisure trips is falling even as online travel revenue continues to climb, according to Forrester Research data...
eBusiness News | Posted 11/09/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

With Growth Slowing, eBay Gets Innovative
How does a billion-dollar company with sagging growth get its mojo back? If it's eBay, it throws dozens of new features at the wall to see what sticks.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/05/2007 | eBay & eCommerce

Say Goodbye to Blockbuster
It looks like the bottom has finally fallen out of Blockbuster. After numerous failed attempts at attracting new customers, the company is finally spiraling out of control.
eBusiness News | Posted 11/02/2007 | eBay & eCommerce