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Meanwhile...eBay Spends $1.34 Billion On Bill Me Later, Danish Sites

2008-10-06 08:40:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
eBay isn't just cutting costs . It is also spending cash -- more than $1 billion worth It is spending $945 million ($820 million cash, $120 M worth of employee options) on PayPal alternative Bill Me Later. And it is spending $390 million on Danish auction sites Bla Avis and BilBasen. One short-term winner in the Bill Me Later deal: Amazon, which...
 
 
 
 
 
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eBay on a Shopping Spree, Buys Bill Me Later and DBA

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2008-10-06 12:51:55 by Stan Schroeder in Mashable!
eBay just became an even stronger player when it comes to online payments and classifieds. The company has announced two acquisitions today: the first one is U.S.-based online payments business Bill Me Later for approximately $820 million in cash and approximately $125 million in outstanding options The second acquisition is Denmarks leading...
 
 
 
 
 
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eBay Firing 1000 (Finally), Needs To Fire More

2008-10-06 08:24:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
eBay (EBAY) is finally acknowledging its new reality and c utting its global workforce by 10% (1000 employees plus temps and open job reqs). The company got fat during its salad days, and now that buyers and sellers are fleeing to Amazon, Google, et al, these cuts are long overdue. Unless the company can rapidly begin to reaccelerate gross...
 
 
 
 
 
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eBay-backed community site Tokoni leaves beta

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2008-10-06 04:01:00 by Caroline McCarthy in Webware.com
...eBay as well as the auction giant's founder, Pierre Omidyar, and was founded by former eBay executive Mary Lou Song and Alex Kazim, former president of the eBay-owned Skype . Kazim serves as Tokoni's CEO We created Tokoni to fill the distinct need for an online community where individual stories of life's experiences have a voice and are...
 
 
 
 
 
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eBay Seller Goes Berzerk at eBay Live: Outraged Sellers Game New System To Survive

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2008-06-23 19:00:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...eBay (EBAY) is getting an earful from sellers outraged about new feedback and product-search policies. For example, there was the episode below at the recent eBay Live seller conference, in which a seller/heckler shut a presentation down. (The audio's hard to hear, but the video will give you a feel for the state of eBay-seller relations...
 
 
 
 
 
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eBay Needs Desperately to Find Itself

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2008-08-20 15:41:14 by Don Reisinger in Mashable!
eBay on Wednesday announced that it has dropped seller fees in an attempt to save you some money and increase the number of listings on each page According to the company, sellers will now be levied a flat 35 cent listing fee and will base fees on the successful sale of items instead of the fact that youre simply listing them. Of course, that...
 
 
 
 
 
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GarageSale 4.0 b5 - A mac client for eBay

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2008-01-07 00:00:00 by Editor in Softonic > Mac > Latest releases
...eBay online auction system. It allows Mac OS X users to create auctions quickly using an intuitive mac-like interface, integrates with iPhoto and offers WYSIWYG text editing Features overview FTP and .mac image serving eBay atributes Listing designs Offline capability eBay store support Intuitive interface Direct from camera importer eBay...
 
 
 
 
 
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GarageSale 4.0.5 - A Mac client for eBay

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2008-03-03 00:00:00 by Editor in Softonic > Mac > Latest releases
...eBay online auction system. It allows Mac OS X users to create auctions quickly using an intuitive Mac-like interface, integrates with iPhoto and offers WYSIWYG text editing Features overview FTP and .mac image serving eBay attributes Listing designs Offline capability eBay store support Intuitive interface Direct from camera importer eBay...
 
 
 
 
 
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eBay's Death By a Thousand Fee Cuts

2008-08-20 07:35:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...eBay will soon be tweaking listing fees again --allowing sellers to list multiple copies of the same items with a single listing instead of going through the tedious (and expensive) process of creating a new listing every time. The change will also save buyers the hassle of having to sift through dozens of listings by the same seller for the...