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Bloom Box Makes A Wave..
While most of us were still celebrating the Little Master’s amazing feat, there was a celebration of a different kind going on at Silicon Valley. eBay’s headquarters played host to the unveiling of energy startup Bloom Energy’s – Bloom Box! For the uninitiated – Bloom Box is supposed to be a new type of fuel [...]
Mumbai To Get Bus Route Guide Via Mobile Sans GPRS – Mobile 4 Mumbai
The new year has dawn, and mobile applications have certainly found a way that will help their insertion in the Indian market. Mobile app developer Mobile 4 Mumbai have introduced their new service that will garner to their core focus area, serving a Mumbaikar via mobile. This time in news they are looking forward to [...]
Tie Ups Update: Dell – MTNL / Iskon – Atom / HP Snapfish – Ebay
Well its a tie ups day for sure. We are seeing an increased number of tie ups be it 3G space, mobile or ecommerce. So here are the tie ups updates for today:
MTNL To Bundle 3G with Dell Laptops
Dell and MTNL entered into a partnership to offer 3G on Dell’s laptops and netbooks. The mtnl [...]
Updated: Ebay Sells Skype At Valuation Of 2.75 Billion $ – Report
Updated: Ebay has announced that Skype has finally been sold off by Ebay to a bunch of Vc’s and PE firm owners for a valuation of 2.75 billion dollars (less by about 350 million dollars than what Ebay paid to acquire Skype). the group of PE firms would acquire about 65% of the company while [...]
Skype In Danger Of Shutdown Or Is It Not?
Apparently that’s what the holding company, the online auction major Ebay said in a regulatory filing to the US securities and Exchange Commission late last week and this is mainly due to the legal suite that Joltid has filed on Skype over Skype’s use of Joltid’s technology despite former revoking the license.
“Although Skype has contracts [...]
India’s Online Retail Saga – A Review
Before going into the details and dissecting the online retail scenario in India I would like To clearly state that “Indian’s do not buy online”. Yes it’s in their nature. They may buy a gift online, they compare prices online and mostly they gather information on their options through internet. Rarely will you find someone [...]
Bid2Travel.com – Joins the OTA Band With an Auction Driven Idea
Noble Travels Group, today announced the launch of Bid2Travel.com, which their release claims is India’s first online bidding site bringing unsold, last-minute inventory of rooms straight to the customer. While the original auction pioneer is having some mid life troubles with its kids, Bid2Travel essentially brings the auction model to the Indian travel segment on the web. Basically the site allows you to bid for hotel rooms which are actually unsold rooms in hotels to get it at the lowest cost.
Buying From EBay: Original Founders of Skype and StumbleUpon Bargain a Buy Back of Businesses From Ebay
I hope you don’t find the title misleading or confusing, so here is the real deal. Skype founders are lining up a slew of private equity investors to buy back Skype from Ebay while StumbleUpon has apparently already bought their business back from the ecommerce biggie. Ebay had bought Skype for over $2 billion (or was it 4) in 2005 while they purchased StumbleUpon for around $75 million in May 2007.
Ebay India Releases Pop Culture List For 2009
A few days ago the Ebay India released the trends for January 2009. These trends are based on the 50 most purchased items on Ebay India.
As has been he case for quite sometime, jewellery continues to retain its top spot as the most popular category. Diamonds accounted for the highest number of purchases in this [...]
Mumbai & Delhi Rank As Largest Ecommerce Hubs – Why Ecommerce Is Key For Online Advertising Growth?
According to an Ebay census Mumbai is the top e-commerce centre in India, followed by Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. Also in terms of items sold on eBay USB drive register the maximum sales. I guess thats understandable given that USB drive ranges from 300-1000 rupees which is the ideal online transaction amount. Other popular [...]
A German Mother Tries To Sell Her Baby On eBay – We Say What A Sad Joke!
A German mother had to pay a huge price for a sad joke that she intended to play. Few days back she tried to sell her baby on eBay with an opening bid of 1Euro. In case you people are wondering why? The answer is he “cries too much,” this sounds as dumb [...]
MobileNXT.com Launched – A Review
Here joins another online mobile retail store from around the block. After The Mobile Store going online, it is finally the turn for MobileNXT to start pitching for its services online. It seems, after the investment of TV 18, MobileNXT has been riding high in the market. However, while I checked out the website, I [...]
Unlimited Long Distance Calls for a Third of the World’s Population
Skype announced unlimited (it’s actually 5 hours a day) calling today to over a third of the world’s population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal the first time Skype has offered a single, monthly flat rate for international calling to landline numbers in 34 countries.
Stefan Oberg, VP & GM telecoms at [...]
eBay to sell Skype?
Here’s a quotation that eBay’s CEO – John Donahoe gave to the Financial Times. “What we’re testing this year are the synergies … If the synergies are strong, we’ll keep it in our portfolio. If not, we’ll reassess it.”
This indicates that eBay may be looking to sell Skype.
Skype was purchased by eBay 3 years ago [...]
WATShow Episode 14 – Dan Neary – VP – EBay Inc On India, Regional Language Ecommerce & Skype
WATShow is back! With yet another exclusive interview! And this time we have gone and got Dan Neary who is the Vice President of Emerging Markets in Ebay Inc to answer the following questions:
1) What is Ebay’s Media Strategy in India?
2) Whats Ebay’s SME Strategy in India?
3) Is Ebay going to have better payment and [...]