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MyAuctionMate
Downloads Energize your online auction business with AuctionMate. AucitonMate is made with eBay in mind. Use this software to submit aucitons, contact winners, in short, manage and automate your auctions.
[August 1, 2003, 8:00]
eBay prepares to spin off Skype
News The online auction giant planned to offer customers the ability to discuss their transactions in real-time, but the acquisition failed to provide the synergy eBay sought. When eBay announced Donahoe as its new chief executive in spring 2008, the...
[April 15, 2009, 16:08]
eBay reports drop in revenue and earnings
News The online auction giant reported revenue of $2.07bn, down seven percent from a year ago. Facing a tight economic climate and strong dollar overseas, eBay reported on Wednesday a seven percent revenue drop in the fourth quarter and weaker net profits.
[January 22, 2009, 8:19]
Qualcomm buys UK mobile-TV spectrum
News The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, announced last December that it would auction off the spectrum in 16 smaller lots, as well as a single large one. That auction took place earlier this month, with Qualcomm winning the entire package at a price of...
[May 16, 2008, 15:53]
eBay announces new Skype chief
News This continues an extensive management shake-up at the online commerce giant, which saw the departure of long-time chief executive Meg Whitman in January.eBay itself has been going through some difficult times, with seller dissatisfaction over...
[February 26, 2008, 10:21]
BizPix Gold
Downloads BizPix Gold is an image optimizer designed specifically for e-commerce Webmasters and eBay auction sellers who want to make the images they place on the Web download faster. Embed annotations, such as watermarks, notes, highlights, text, arrows...
[June 4, 2003, 7:52]
Google gets set for spectrum race
News The spectrum auction is scheduled to begin on 24 January, and the deadline to apply to participate is Monday. Google said on Friday it would apply to bid in the US Federal Communications Commission's auction of 700MHz band wireless spectrum.
[December 4, 2007, 15:08]
Personal data exposed via eBay storage
News Disklabs bought 100 hard drives and 50 memory cards - including SD cards, flash drives, SIM cards and memory sticks - from the auction site. Security codes, passwords, phone numbers and home addresses are being found in storage sold on eBay...
[September 14, 2005, 13:15]
NetSuite IPO: Shares hit double the forecast price
News The first public auction of shares in CRM company NetSuite closed on Wednesday evening at a price of $26 (£13) a share — double the original forecasts. NetSuite announced its intention in July to go public with an IPO.
[December 20, 2007, 15:53]
Skype: Not quite what eBay bargained for
News Don't call it a failure just yet, but it's fair to say eBay executives aren't thrilled with what they're getting out of Skype, which the auction king bought for $2.6bn (£1.3bn) two years ago. It's clear that the dream of massive integration between...
[October 2, 2007, 13:03]
NetSuite plans to go public
News NetSuite, an on-demand applications company controlled by Oracle's Larry Ellison, has filed for an auction-style initial public offering, according to a Monday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
[July 3, 2007, 8:19]
EBay beats estimates and revenue soars
News One of the important things for eBay is how successfully it can move its auction business into new areas, said Steve Fitzgibbons, a financial analyst with J.P. EBay reported Thursday that fourth-quarter revenue increased 81 percent and posted...
[January 19, 2001, 8:23]
eBay acts over privacy fears
News Internet auction house eBay will make changes to its site after discussions with the UK's Information Commissioner and civil rights group Privacy International. ZDNet UK has learnt that eBay has agreed to make changes to its Web site to make it...
[September 27, 2006, 16:40]
Ebay software pirate faces sentence at the Old Bailey
News Khan has allegedly been using hundreds of aliases on a variety of auction Web sites, such as eBay, to generate sales in both the UK and the US. A Pakistani student will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Friday after pleading guilty to charges that...
[July 4, 2003, 10:30]
EBay goes down for three hours
News A power outage in eBay's Web hosting facility crippled the Web auction service for nearly three hours, the company confirmed. The outage on Wednesday night struck a Qwest Communications facility in California, that hosts many of eBay's Web servers...
[August 22, 2003, 8:59]
EBay doubles income and revenue
News The online auction house said it earned $109.7m (£68m), or 33 cents per diluted share, in the second quarter, compared with $54.3m, or 19 cents per diluted share, for the same quarter last year. In a rosy earnings report, eBay raised its outlook...
[July 25, 2003, 8:43]
EBay restricts email access
News EBay plans to block members from being able to look up each others' email addresses on the site, making it harder to spam members -- and also harder for people to cut the online auction house out of a deal.
[February 1, 2001, 13:27]
Council workers lose jobs over eBay 'addiction'
Blog One council worker has been sacked, and two have lost their jobs over spending too much time on auction site eBay, reports the BBC. Apparently some of the the staff members at Neath Port Talbot were spending up to two hours a day on eBay and...
[September 21, 2007, 15:23]
Hollywood, software firms aim at pirates
News Two major trade groups on Thursday filed a slew of civil lawsuits against people they claim were selling pirated copies of films and software via online auction sites. The MPAA's charges are part of the group's "Tactics for Auction Piracy" (TAP...
[February 28, 2003, 7:56]
Government defends wireless broadband plans
News Several members of the Welsh Assembly are reported to be furious over the structure of the forthcoming 3.4GHz auction and are even considering intervening to block the bidding process. Under this auction 15 licences -- each covering one region of...
[February 4, 2003, 16:11]
