All Posts Tagged With: "ECommerce"
Update: Why Did eBay Buy Skype?
In one of my most popular posts I speculated why eBay bought Skype for such an outlandish amount. One of the reasons I came up with was to help allow buyers to talk to sellers.
However Techdirt have just reported that the executive director of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, a group that apparently represents [...]
Google To Sponsor Man Utd?
Rumours are circulating that Man Utd are in discussions with Google to replace Vodafone as their shirt sponsor. The price of the deal has been set at £9m pounds and other companies rumoured to be considering the deal include IBM, Yahoo!, Coca-Cola and Levis.
If Man Utd do clinch the deal with Google, I wonder what [...]
iTunes Sells More Music Than Tower Records and Borders
According to NPD which tracks music downloads, within the last 3 months iTunes has broken into the Top 10 music retailers in the US, moving ahead of Borders, Sam Goody and Tower Records.The current Top Ten are:
1. Walmart
2. Best Buy
3. Target
4. Amazon.com
5. FYE
6. Circuit City
7. iTunes
8. Tower Records
9. Sam Goody
10. Borders
New Mobile Shopping Service - Reporo
I just received an email asking me to check out a new mobile shopping service called Reporo. I’ve had a quick look and it looks quite good, very similar to a shopping service I wanted to launch in 2002 for Vodafone.Reporo is a Java application that lets users shop on their mobiles – anytime, [...]
15Nov2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Xbox 360 - Finally Placed My Order
I hope I still get an Xbox 360 this side of Christmas as I’ve only just placed my pre-order. I went for Currys as I’m hoping they will have a decent allocation. Fingers crossed.
Now all I need to do is start saving my pennies for a HDTV - I guess that’ll be next years’ [...]
eBay Buys Skype For Up To $4.1bn
I guess I spoke too sooneBay have just bought Skype for $1.3bn in cash and $1.3bn in shares. If targets are met eBay will pay a further $1.5bn in 2008 or 2009 giving a total price of$4.1bn.I really can’t wait to see what eBay plan to do with Skype as I’m sure they have more [...]
12Sep2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
Apple iTunes Dominates The UK Download Market
Apple’s iTunes Music Store has an 80 per cent share of the UK downloads market, according to new figures from the Official Charts Company, and the biggest music catalogue.
‘We’re thrilled that music fans in the UK have made the iTunes Music Store their number one choice for purchasing digital music,’ said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice [...]
Internet Auctions Boost UK Wealth
The BBC reports that eBay now accounts for 1.3% of total UK retail sales, with £4Bn worth of trades expected this year with some household’s generating up to £3,000 on eBay.Although, I’m not making this amount I have to admit that eBay has changed the way I buy goods. I’m no longer afraid of [...]
15Aug2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued
The Ten Biggest Dot Com Flops
CNET have compiled a list of the top 10 .com flops. Seeing this list brought back a lot of memories of crazy valuations and seeing paper fortunes disappear (sob!).
At number 1 we have webvan.com who raised and squandered $375m within 18 months, which is pretty good going when you think about it.
Even Mike Tyson [...]
Music Pirates Spend The Most On Legal Downloads
Research by The Leading Question discovered that regular downloaders of illegal music spend an average of £5.52 on legal music whereas other users spend an average of £1.27.
This comes as absolutely no surprise to me as I have always believed this. I genuinely believe that since I started downloading music I’ve actually spent more [...]
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