Mr Altman said one of the accounts was closed down by eBay in October 2006.
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Billpoint, a service now owned by eBay and Wells Fargo, enables individuals to accept credit-card payments.
StumbleUpon was acquired by eBay in 2007 and bought back two years later by founders and venture investors.
Pop-up stores are being tried out by eBay and Google (for its Chromebook).
Skype, recently acquired by eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ), already offers calls for free.
Dixon has founded two previous startups, SiteAdvisor, which was acquired by McAfee, and Hunch, which was acquired by eBay last year.
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PayPal is a global payment platform operated by eBay that enables secure, easy, quick, and cost-effective transfer of payments online.
Companies like CyberSource, First Data and PayPal (now owned by eBay) are happy to process credit card transactions for a fee.
That could put them at risk of obsolescence, similar to the way dot-com era Internet Malls were quickly leapfrogged by eBay and Amazon.com.
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Alibaba shares are up 66.95 percent year to date ending June 10, followed by eBay shares up 62.35 percent and Amazon up 49.71 percent.
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Precisely because they do not trust sellers or advertising much, they devour online customer reviews of the sort made popular by eBay and Amazon.
For now, all of these valets are employed by eBay, but as the program extends to new cities, eBay may well hire couriers from outside contractors.
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My final stop was the Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar to scale innovative organizations that catalyze social change.
Instead of creating listings for each item, wannabe auctioneers need only fill the pre-paid mailing bag (provided by eBay) with the clothes and accessories they wish to sell.
Millions of people have already set up small web businesses, and millions more will do so, many of them using services provided by eBay, Amazon, Google and Yahoo!
When PayPal got bought by eBay, eBay was trading at half of its 2000 high (and by the way, eBay is back to that 2000 high level today).
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Much of this was driven by eBay and Amazon.
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Robbie Marsland of the IFAW said that Web sites used to sell ivory and other animal products had a responsibility to ban such activities and welcomed assurances by eBay to review its wildlife policies.
The car also has been owned by the Kruse Company --which is now owned by eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people )--and was recently restored to its present, rather outstanding, condition.
This is partially down to the fact that fees stumped up by eBay sellers in Britain are handed over to a related company in Luxembourg called PayPal (Europe) Sarl, meaning most sales are channelled through a tax haven.
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Like the rest of the mobile phone industry, Deutsche Telekom has been hit hard by the growing popularity of internet telephony, as peddled by eBay's (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) Skype, which has seen customers moving away from conventional technology.
Sales have been crimped by Ebay sellers and carmakers themselves, which are putting in better stereos at the factory. (A few audio companies make money that way but at lower margins.) Audio equipment company Kicker this year reduced its budget for its dB Drag team.
Other historical items listed on eBay by the same dealer are are even more expensive.
In fact, the eyewear was purchased by him on eBay and from intermediary vendors.
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And by competing with Ebay and Google and Baidu and the other companies, I think we learn a lot.
U.S. e-commerce giant eBay last November launched a partnership with xiu.com, an online store, to promote new fashion items sold on eBay by 3, 800 top vendors.
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Well, 80% of the retailers surveyed by Edgell Network and eBay Local said they expect their sales to be negatively impacted by an average of 5% because of showrooming.
"Ebay is run by smart people who don't use Ebay and spend hours debating the data about how other people use Ebay, " says a former strategist who left a few months ago.
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