Category: ebay

eBay Marketing Made Simple

eBay is a tough nut to crack, but if you’ve got a good system in place, then making money on eBay will become very simple to you. The system consists of finding a good supply of in-demand products (whether it be your basement, other sellers on eBay, or a wholesale company), being able to create [...]

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Week in review: eBay cuts off Skype

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eBay has finally found a way to hang up on Skype.

The e-commerce giant plans to sell its Internet telephone service unit to an investor group that includes Netscape founder Marc Andreessen’s new venture. Under the deal, eBay will receive approximately $1.9 billion in cash and a note from the buyer in the principal amount of [...]

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How did eBay start?

A brief history of eBay

To look at eBay today you’d never guess that it sprang from a modest, even comical beginning. Lacking is the glamour of the hotshot enterpreneurial firm and high-voltage venture capital so commonly seen in other companies that are babies of the dot-com bubble. Instead, eBay can be traced back to a [...]

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Who Has the Most Web Servers?

There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week’s first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at [...]

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