06 Nov 2009
| by Staff
NEW YORK - EBay has finally settled a complex, long-running legal battle with the founders...The dispute arose in the wake of eBay's 2005 deal to buy Skype, which was structured so that instead of owning the technology that makes the service work, eBay only licensed it from a company called Joltid - owned by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. Last year Joltid accused eBay ...
15 Apr 2009
| by Andrew McCormick
LONDON - EBay plans to seperate its Skype subsidiary by holding an initial public offering (IPO...EBay bought Skype for $3.1bn in 2005 but announced today that Skype will be operated as a standalone company while eBay concentrates on its core business of e-commerce and online payments. Announcing the decision, John Donahoe, president and chief executive of eBay said: "It's clear that Skype has ...
25 Oct 2006
The music download service, which Apple boss Steve Jobs last month
announced would be boosted by film and video downloads following the
launch of video iPods, jumped 24 places on last year's ranking to
11th. Amazon came top for the third year running, while eBay overtook Google
for the first time ...
25 Oct 2006
| by Philip Buxton
10, this year's findings reveal a landmark event -
for the first time, eBay overtook Google to take second place. EBay is
the brand most people think of as being innovative and, surprisingly,
also the most ...
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RECOGNITION
1. eBay
2. Google
3. Amazon
4. Argos.co.uk
5. AOL
6. Tesco.com
7. Yahoo
8. Orange
9. MSN ...
24 Oct 2005
| by Emma Rigby
Online auction eBay is to look at pay-per-call services following its $2.6 billion (1.4bn...The deal will bring eBay and Skype into the lead-generation business as
eBay will be able ...
' on Gumtree.com, owned by
Kijiji, eBay's classified group, and talk to the rental agent. Saul
Klein, VP ...
, which eBay does, you would charge a lead
fee. To cut that distance between interest and transaction ...
24 Oct 2005
| by Emma Rigby
EBay has agreed to buy internet phone firm Skype Technologies, which allows PC users to talk...For eBay, the deal will "create an unparalleled e-commerce and
communications engine for buyers ...
of trade on eBay and
volume of payments through PayPal". The deal has implications in terms of how eBay users communicate and
will certainly raise awareness of VoIP services. EBay attracts about 10 per cent ...
22 Jun 2005
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The financial successes of eBay and Amazon have captured headlines, and the size of Google's IPO has garnered ...
22 Jun 2005
| by Emma Rigby
, with names like Amazon, eBay and Google doing really well, and the long-term impact is becoming clear.
We ...
22 Jun 2005
| by Philip Buxton
The firm is examining small ads as a potential growth area, citing eBay as an example of how the model can work online.
It is not certain whether the new service, which wouldn't be launched until next year, will be developed. But marketing director Tim Ward said classified ads would fit well ...
22 Jun 2005
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9 QXL.com 1.16 99.77
10 Ebay.co.uk 1.65 99.86
Worst performing site 8.45 99.72
The basket of 20 sites is: Amazon.co.uk; AOL UK; Autosport.com;
Barclays.co.uk; bbc.co.uk; Ebay ...