Amazon and PayPal have long not been partners in commerce. Of course, the reason for this most oft stated is basic competition. As you might know, Amazon introduced last year its Amazon Payments shop-till-your-cell-phone-drops Apr-2-2008 system for use at Amazon.com and partner sites.

Still, the idea of broadening the Amazon Payments business greatly piques the [...]

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eBay has pulled the plug on Media Marketplace, a controversial pilot program designed to buy and sell radio and TV advertising on the Internet. The Internet auction house confirmed the closure of the program after one year with the brief message: “We have ended our pilot program in this market.”

The system got off to a [...]

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A few weeks back eBay brought a lawsuit against Craigslist, of which it owns an arguably sizable stake. We later learned that the reasons for eBay’s lawsuit was due to Craigslist’s steps to dilute eBay’s shares in the online classifieds company.

Why would Craigslist do such a thing? Because as part of the agreement between eBay [...]

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Along with launch partners Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, MySpace has announced “Data Availability,” an initiative to allow users to share their profile data across all of the sites that they visit. By all signs, this means we’ll have an actual, tangible implementation of Data Portability up and running within the next few weeks.

Specifically, Amit [...]

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