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PayPal makeover sparks developer charm offensive
News PayPal, eBay's well established but aging mechanism for online payments, is trying to rebuild itself for a new generation of online commerce possibilities. PayPal is a business that will be bigger than... [24 Jul 2009]
The top 10 alternatives to Google search
Photo The embedded search engine runs queries against a range of popular sites such as Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay, Facebook and of course Google. It can even search for products on sites such as... [16 Jun 2009]
Amazon says no to Phorm tracking
News and eBay - has made any statement on whether they intend to opt out of Phorm's tracking. Online shopping giant Amazon has declared that it will not allow its website to be monitored by the... [15 Apr 2009]
Photos: The top tech Twitterers
Photo Dot-com founders Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist, and Pierre Omidyar founder/chairman of eBay are also Twitter users. Plus there are a number of CTOs displaying their wisdom - including Padmasree Warrior, CTO of... [23 Mar 2009]
Second Life's ecommerce double whammy
News Speaking to silicon.com, Linden Lab chief product officer, Tom Hale, said: "Xstreet SL and OnRez are really like the eBay or Amazon [of Second Life]. What we're doing is adding that kind of... [22 Jan 2009]
Pure-play e-tailers help consumers get happy online
News The survey, conducted between 28 November and 15 December, found Play.com and Amazon UK share the top satisfaction ranking among consumers.eBay UK, Apple iTunes UK and Screwfix Direct came in second,... [22 Dec 2008]
US losing trust in Google privacy?
News A number of technology companies saw their ranking change, including eBay and Yahoo! While the financial services sector slipped amid industry-wide woes, the technology sector showed marked improvement as... [16 Dec 2008]
Microsoft web store kills off Windows Marketplace
News Online retailer Amazon.com issued a cautious note regarding holiday sales when it reported its third-quarter financial results last month, while eBay lowered its fourth-quarter forecast. Microsoft is... [17 Nov 2008]
Managed Anti-DDoS Service Protection
White Paper While no company wants to willingly publicize it, it has taken major companies offline including: Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, CNN and eBay. As the Internet becomes increasingly mission-critical, business... [22 Oct 2008]
Why Do Denial of Service Attacks Reduce Future Visits?: Switching Costs Vs. Changing Preferences
White Paper The attacks had a lasting negative impact on six of the seven websites attacked (CNN, Yahoo, ZDNet, Amazon, Buy.com, and EBay, but not ETrade). This paper examines the denial of service attacks of... [22 Oct 2008]
Client Puzzles as a Defense Against Network Denial of Service
White Paper In February 2000, a string of distributed denial of service attacks crippled popular websites including CNN.com, Amazon.com, eBay.com, and yahoo.com for several hours. The threat posed by network denial... [22 Oct 2008]
eBay not bidding on positive fourth quarter
News Shares of Apple dropped more than five percent to close at $97.95, and eBay rival Amazon finished the day at $48.72, down 12 per cent. Online auction giant eBay lowered its... [16 Oct 2008]
Credit crisis sees eBay slash 1,000 jobs
News Auctions growth has slowed in the last few years, with a wealth of online deals at other sites and greater competition from the likes of online retailer Amazon.com, which has cut into eBay's market share. [07 Oct 2008]
Amazon unveils online-payments service
News Amazon.com unveiled on Tuesday a new online-payment service it will offer to other online merchants - a move that puts it in direct competition with eBay's PayPal and Google's Google checkout. However,... [30 Jul 2008]
Application Integration Workshop
White Paper Just about every leading Web site, from Amazon and eBay to Facebook and Google, has a Web services offering these days. Web services enable applications to interact with one another over the Web in a... [20 Mar 2008]