Missouri University of Science and Technology is selling signage that bears the university’s former name — the University of Missouri-Rolla — on the online auction site eBay. The university decided to sell the UMR signs after alumni expressed a desire to purchase them as memorabilia. Most of the signs were removed when the university changed its name to Missouri S&T on Jan. 1. Anyone interested …
SALT LAKE CITY—-eBay’s growth has produced many lessons learned for Utah companies according to Meg Whitman, president and CEO of eBay. Whitman shared her own lessons learned recently with a sell-out audience of Utah executives at the Utah Technology Council’s Annual Members’ Meeting at the Larry H.
Belle River, ON; Sooke, BC, and Kemptville, ON were named tops in trading by eBay Canada. For the first time, eBay Canada ranked Canadian online trading activity for an entire year, and smaller communities counted big. On a provincial level, the top three provinces of eBay activity in order were Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec.
eBay recently launched part of its new Seller Dashboard in the US, but delayed launch in Canada and UK. For more on the Seller Dashboard, see the AuctionBytes blog.
ahTXT recently launched an application that sends reports of eBay seller activity directly to a seller’s cell phone. Sellers can receive notifications of sales, offers, questions and feedback events in real-time directly to their phone.
While Yahoo staves off a takeover bid from Microsoft and Microsoft braces for life after Bill Gates another high-tech pioneer, eBay, is at a digital crossroads.
When it comes to launching online attacks, criminals are getting more organised and branching out from the Windows operating system, says eBay’s security chief. eBay recently did an in-depth analysis of its threat situation, and while the company is not releasing the results of this analysis, it did uncover a huge number of hacked, botnet computers, said Dave Cullinane, eBay’s chief information …
What does Lantzville have that Nanaimo doesn’t? — A keen interest in lingerie, for one thing.
Shopster, a leading online dropshipping and retail solution, is now an eBay Certified Solution Provider, joining an exclusive list of services and solutions that have been given this designation.
Electronic commerce giant eBay epitomizes the buying spree reshaping the tech landscape, and its mixed record on mergers presents a case study in what would-be acquirers should and shouldn’t do to ensure a takeover succeeds. Like many companies in techdom, eBay has a wad of cash, zero debt and is looking to fill product gaps by snapping up smaller, nimbler companies on the cheap.