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Survey Suggests Nearly 30 Percent Of Online Holiday Shoppers Plan On Spending Less This YearTechCrunch - Nov 29, 2008 The theme this holiday shopping season is frugality. J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Khan expects online sales to be flat this year. In a survey of U.S. consumers conducted by J.P. Morgan, nearly 30 percent of online … Also tagged: amazon, wal mart, target, sears, web 2 0 news and 038 ideas |
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As The Outlook For Holiday Sales Look Grim, Amazon and eBay Are On A Collision CourseTechCrunch - Nov 26, 2008 With economic recession in the air and layoffs everywhere, the outlook for online retail sales looks grim this holiday season. So far in November, online sales are 4 percent less than last year. Online retailers Amazon … Also tagged: amazon, company and 038 product profiles, web 2 0 news and 038 ideas |
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Was Ebay’s BillMeLater Acquisition A Huge Blunder?TechCrunch - Nov 25, 2008 When eBay paid $945 million for BillMeLater in October, we blinked. The business assigns credit at the point of sale to ecommerce customers who can’t use credit cards because they don’t have them, have maxed out credit … Also tagged: company and 038 product profiles, billmelater |
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Yahoo Continues To Embrace This Openness Thing. Ebay Widget On Yahoo Home PageTechCrunch - Nov 20, 2008 Yahoo appears to be quite serious about openness and promoting third party content and applications on their massively visited home page. Today they’re announcing the addition of an eBay widget to the new Yahoo home … Also tagged: yahoo, company and 038 product profiles |
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As eBay’s Core Business Hits Hard Times, Skype Begins To ShineTechCrunch - Oct 15, 2008 Although eBay beat its downwardly-revised earnings numbers today, its earnings call was filled with glum news for investors. (Full earnings slides embedded below). After three flat quarters, revenues declined 3.6 … Also tagged: skype, paypal, company and 038 product profiles |
TechCrunch - Oct 6, 2008
On the same day the public markets are tanking because of the spreading credit crisis, we see one of the biggest M&A exits of the year with eBay acquiring Bill Me Later for $945 million ($820 million in cash, plus …
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TechCrunch - Oct 6, 2008
Reports are coming out of Denmark that eBay has acquired the company that runs DBA, the “eBay of Denmark” for 2.1 billion Kroner, or about $383 million (here’s an article in Danish). DBA, founded in 1995, attracts …
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TechCrunch - Oct 6, 2008
It’s a big day for eBay and CEO Jon Donahoe. The company is laying off 10% of its workforce, or about 1,000 employees plus several hundred temporary positions. They will take a $70 million to $80 million restructuring …
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TechCrunch - Oct 3, 2008
Deutsche Bank is still out there trying to find a buyer for eBay’s StumbleUpon business, we’ve heard from new sources (we first reported on this on September 18). But there’s one problem: while eBay wants to unload the …
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TechCrunch - Sep 30, 2008
A 28-year-old delivery man from the UK who bought a Nikon Coolpix camera for about $31 on eBay got more than he bargained for when the camera arrived with top secret information from the UK’s MI6 organization …
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