Yahoo Auction – Going Once, Going Twice, Closed!

In a failed attempt to grab a substantial portion of market share from auction leader eBay, Yahoo is closing its auction doors forever. Yahoo Auction will be shut down in order to “better serve our valued customers through other Yahoo properties.”...

eBay + StumbleUpon

The social marketing and search engine world is buzzing over the potential acquisition of StumbleUpon by leading auction company eBay. The news of interest from eBay filtered into the news on April 18th with other potential suitors being AOL and Google but yesterday...

Google Announces Update for Holiday Season

This holiday season Google has announced a search engine update geared towards a bolder integration of Google Base data. At the latest Professional Ebay Sellers Alliance Summit (PESA) Google stated that they would provide a ‘refine your search’ option to...

Ebay Hikes Rates, Where’s Google?

Recently the world of online auctioneers saw the rates at eBay spike a little higher, and has a number of sellers very unhappy about the situation. This has also sparked a number of eBay listings surrounding this hike, like this T-Shirt “I survived the eBay Rate...

Yahoo and eBay Form Multifunctional Strategic Partnership

Yahoo and eBay have formed a strategic partnership in order to tie up a number of loose ends both firms feared losing to Google. The agreement, announced earlier today, will see the each firm provide functions and services to each other and each other’s users in...