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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Valentine day demonstrates the degree of love, affection and commitment for your loved ones. Lots of companies are promoting their product in various ways. As today’s Indian youth spends a considerable amount of time online, companies are gearing up to lure them in the cyber space.

Companies like eBay India are promoting various product ranges on [...]

Dan Neary, The VP for Emerging Markets, eBay and Shailesh Rao, MD of Google India spoke about the above mentioned topic.
 
 
 
This post will deal with Fundamental Trends on the Internet Today With Respect to:
 
 
-       Users
-       Touchpoints
-       Discovery
-       Activities
 
 
Users: Gen Y; users born between 1980 – 1995. A generation brought up on the Internet. Think about it, kids are getting [...]

Online advertising in India is clicking fast even though 95% of the Rs. 10,000 Crore advertising market is captured mostly by television and print media. The reason behind this upsurge is due to the fact that internet connectivity is vastly improving and spreading like wildfire all across the country. People are becoming more internet savvy. [...]

 
It’s time for some really great news for Indians who use PayPal and wish to receive money from their relatives, friends or professional counterparts who based outside India.
 

PayPal is an International Online Money Transfer giant and its services are widely used by millions of people across the globe in order to shop online safely, make [...]

‘eBay is rebuilding its technical infrastructure in a project that could lead to the e-commerce giant hosting applications from outsiders’, reports CNET News.
An initiative, internally referred to as eBox, calls for the company to rebuild the technical frame of eBay.com as an “open platform” comprising a series of modular services, rather than a single, unified [...]

Indian companies are now being sold on eBay.  A Lucknow based company has just auctioned offering to sell up to 25 per cent stake at a minimum rate of Rs25,000 for a one per cent stake to bidders on eBay. in. (Sounds like a good deal?).
There have been 10 Internet companies which sought out [...]

StumbleUpon had been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since quite a while. Recently talks had heated up again, with Google, AOL and eBay as potential suitors. A source with knowledge of the deal now says the company has signed a term sheet with eBay to be acquired. The price is somewhere between $40 - [...]

Kiko a online calendar service has decided to pull down the shutters. They offer Ajax based calendar service, which is much more useable & definitely has more features then the entrenched players like Google Calendar & Yahoo Calendar. The company backed by venture capitalist Y Combinator was launched late August last year & claims to [...]

Internet is a double edged sword.. one which could be used to make laws more effective and one which could be used to break the laws! The first edge is how the internet can help the law? Well according to an indiatimes article Online Dispute Settlement (ODR) could soon be a reality. Now firstly what is ODR [...]