eBay application for Blackberry now in beta
eBay already has a very successful application available for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
The company now is catering to the owners of Blackberry smartphones.
eBay application for Blackberry has been released though it is in beta stage currently.
Blackberry owners can download it from the [...]
eBay Apple iPhone App is a major success for the company
eBay has a free mobile application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
This application has turned out to be pretty successful for the company.
eBay CEO John Donahoe has claimed in a statement that the iPhone app was used by shoppers to purchase [...]
Gmail highlighting favicons of some services in emails!
TechCrunch has reported that Google Gmail webmail service is now highlighting emails from certain services with the relevant favicon!
The report said that Netflix is one company that is being covered by this new service. There might be others.
If this is expanded to other services, it [...]
Skype founders suing eBay
The original founders of the VoIP Company Skype have filed a lawsuit against the Skype’s current parent company eBay along with the people who are interested in acquiring it. The other parties include Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Index Ventures.
The company claims damages that are growing [...]
Wikimedia Foundation gets USD 2 million commitment from Omidyar Network
Omidyar Network was started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
The philanthropic investment group has now announced that they are going to provide USD 2 million in funds to the Wikimedia Foundation.
Wikimedia Foundation is mostly known for their open source encyclopaedia service Wikipedia.
These funds would be [...]
Ebay Mobile for Apple iPhone updated
eBay has updated their mobile application for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch devices.
The latest version is now available on the Apple App Store.
This new release comes with support for push notifications. A capability that was added to the Apple iPhone in the recent firmware release.
The application [...]
eBay working on developing alternative technologies for Skype
Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom created Skype along with Joltid which provides technology used in Skype services.
The duo sold Skype to eBay in 2005 for a massive price tag of USD 2.6 billion.
eBay still licenses technology for running Skype from Joltid.
The two groups are currently involved [...]
ooVoo launches business solutions for video conferencing
ooVoo has announced the launch of their video conferencing solutions for business customers.
With this, they are taking on some of the biggest companies out there including Cisco and eBay.
Cisco owns WebEx and has their own telepresence video conferencing systems.
Skype is of course one of the most popular [...]
StumbleUpon sold back to founders by eBay
US based online auction industry giant eBay has now sold their service StumbleUpon back to the founders of the company.
eBay had acquired StumbleUpon around two years ago for $75 million.
Apparently, they failed to gain much from this service and decided to get rid of it.
The company said [...]
Skype coming to Apple iPhone?
Market sources say that Skype would be releasing a version of their VoIP application for the Apple iPhone platform.
Skype is owned by eBay and it is one of the most popular VoIP services in the world.
The company has for now declined to comment on the market rumors about the [...]
