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image PayPal closes Online Merchant Network

In a brief email message with no prior warning, PayPal have announced the closure of their Online Merchant Network site, which required specific registration, and have moved the content into a new open-to-all section of the main site, called the Business Resource Centre.

image 2009 a Bumper Year for smaller online venues

Anyway you look at it, the two years of disruptive innovation at eBay have created a new form of virtual communism.
Both buyers and sellers, disenfranchised by the sweeping changes to the culture, ethos, and operations of the auction giant, have migrated out across the web, clustering in new homes in a commune-like fashion.  Whether it [...]

image Kindle market open globally to authors, publishers, Royalties Up

Amazon’s Kindle and Kindle DX are portable readers, which use wireless technology to download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display with the look of real paper.
As a channel to replace eBay’s closing of the digital downloads category, the Kindle bookstore has until now only been available to [...]

image eBid rolls new look site for 2010, misses some marks

After a minor delay past the originally announced launch date, UK auction site eBid rolled out their new look this month.

Visually more modern than the old site appearance, with little discernible effect on load time, the bright, fresh, new look is sure to appeal to buyers who’ve never visited one of the company’s 18 country [...]

image Amazon Q4-2009 Financials Live Webcast 28 Jan 2010

Amazon’s Conference call for their Q4-2009 results will be held on 28th January, and webcast live, with archives of the broadcast held for public viewing for three months.
Amazon has announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2009 financial results on 28th January 2010, at 2:00 p.m. PT / [...]

image eBay’s Q4-2009 Results – Operations Income DOWN 30%

eBay posted their financial report for the last quarter of 2009, this week, and opened the statement by blaming Skype for causing a 3% drag on gross revenue growth.
The leader paragraph states that comparing Q4 2008 to 2009, revenues rose 16% inclusive of the Skype ownership period, but that factoring Skype out of the numbers [...]

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  • Garry HJ: Madelaine has started a special thread in the eBid forums where you can follow who is selling what to raise money for the Haiti appeal. http://meetup.ebid.net/showthread.php?t=133081 You can als...
  • Madelaine: The Ebid Community is getting its act together and there are now listings running in both UK & US to raise funds for the relief effort....
  • Garry HJ: Update I've just revisited the PayPal blog and it now contains the statement - **Early response from eBay Foundation includes a special gift-matching program for global eBay Inc. employees m...
  • Madelaine: I've started with just one listing for Haiti on ebid... the ebid community is unlikely to leave it at that so watch this space!...
  • Auction Online: Hi The money bookers have increase the fees of 2010 and the fee change will be applied to your account settings automatically and without any inconvenience or additional administrative burden at y...
 

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