There has been more evidence of the dreaded R word hitting the digital world in the past few days as previously untouchable companies face the harsh reality of a less profitable future. The irony is that these companies are seeing the pinch in the way of less than huge profits, where as smaller businesses are [...]

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Ebay announced yesterday that it is going to be making significant changes to its business model on September 24th.  The changes which are described by Lorri Norrington, president of eBay marketplace operations in the US, as “the most fundamental change we’ve made, ever, to the marketplace”, will include an overhaul of its site search, and will [...]

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I anyone needed convincing of the rise in popularity of social media and the impact it has has on the web then the recent Hitwise news letter should provide it. Bebo has just overtaken ebay in the search term share rankings and the top 10 search terms contain 5 terms relating to social [...]

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It appears ebay and google are having a bit of a lovers tiff at the moment with Ebay pulling all paid search advertising in the US on account of Google planning a party to promote Google Checkout that clashed with an Ebay live event!
Ok, so it does go a little deeper than that. Ebay are [...]

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I have written previously about finding the best way to monetise social networking sites without annoying the users and intruding on the social elements.
Myspace founder Chris DeWolfe today hinted (below) at a possible partnerhsip with Ebay as a way to allow its users to trade between themselves. This ties in with the reason [...]

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