ebay in comment and analysis
Legal Eye: Bogus brands face web crackdown
Comment A landmark ruling against eBay amounts to more than the multimillion-euro fine imposed by the court. Late last month, eBay was ordered to pay €38m to LVMH for allowing the auction of fake goods purporting to be luxury items from Louis Vuitton... [22 Jul 2008]
Legal Eye: Is encryption really the silver bullet?
Comment The success of data encryption in preserving the confidentiality of information was demonstrated recently by the discovery of a confidential Home Office disc found hidden in a laptop sold via online auction site eBay. [27 Mar 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment Just play nice eBay bans bad feedback as customers scared off by nasties I totally agree with eBay's stance on sellers negative feedback. It put me off using eBay for more than a year and I am still wary of using it. [07 Feb 2008]
Geography lessons for online retailers
Comment Amazon, eBay and Google are all examples of websites that offer effective personalised and dynamic content. One way of doing that is to identify exactly where they are located, says Quocirca's Louella Fernandes. [09 Jan 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment Ventures like Amazon, eBay and Google were able to get started on the back of a single end-to-end global information network. I just whipped up some code," says eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, "and by Monday afternoon, Labor Day, I had the site up. [17 Dec 2007]
Tech Visions: New media is IT's next frontier
Comment Media within the enterprise has come of age after a series of landmark multi-billion dollar acquisitions including Google buying YouTube for $1.65bn, eBay acquiring Skype for $2.6bn and News Corp's $580m purchase of MySpace. [29 Nov 2007]
Where's the real web 2.0?
Comment Finding real value in content and services may not matter in the early days of growth where success is measured by numbers of names in the address book but as eBay has found with Skype this value is ephemeral, and commercialisation requires the... [18 Oct 2007]
Meg Whitman
AS Profile As CEO of eBay since 1998, Whitman has overseen the development of the auction site into one of the world's biggest online brands despite fierce competition from Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos. Whitman has also made sure eBay continues to innovate so it... [12 Oct 2007]
Niklas Zennström
AS Profile Niklas Zennström may have sold Skype to eBay in 2005 but that wasn't the end of the story for this serial entrepreneur. His latest venture has pushed him back up the Agenda Setters rankings. Because VoIP technologies are now part of everyday life... [12 Oct 2007]
Surprise omissions and trends
AS Analysis Last year eBay CEO Meg Whitman led the female representation at 13, whereas this year there are three women in the top 15 alone, with Whitman down 14 places at 27. The Agenda Setters rankings always throw a few curve balls. [12 Oct 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis He did it at file-sharing player Kazaa, then at Skype, which ended up sold for billions to eBay, and now his latest brainchild, video-over-the-web start-up Joost, is taking off. The striking absence of the heads of some of the biggest organisations... [12 Oct 2007]
Nicholas Negroponte
AS Profile Other heavyweight board members include AMD, eBay, Google and Nortel. Consolidating his position from last year is the man behind the One Laptop Per Child organisation - and the low-cost laptop that is aiming to bring computing to schoolchildren in... [12 Oct 2007]
The Round-Up: 05.10.07
Round-Up eBay has admitted it may have over-valued Skype just a teeny bit after it bought the company two years ago. The auction website raised a few eyebrows when it announced it was buying the VoIP company for a whopping $2.6bn, and the Round-Up's not one... [05 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gripes, naked PCs, geek rage, nuclear fallout...
Comment Demand for XP is so high that ebay prices have increased for XP packs with a Certificate of Authenticity. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to... [27 Sep 2007]
Editor's Blog: Public sector and PCs - not boring, official
Comment A report from our colleagues over at CNET News.com quotes a Current Analysis analsyt as saying Gateway has "basically been up on eBay for the last couple years". I've been away for a week on holiday. I don't normally do the whole August time-off... [29 Aug 2007]
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