News Corp’s (NWS) social network MySpace will add Ebay’s (EBAY) Skype voice over IP product to the MySpace instant messaging feature. The two companies say that the deal will promote the use…
A number of investors watch the list of 52-week highs each day or eachweek. It is a list that tells a story. Stocks that have risen over along period can be a…
This was a long and crazy week for stock traders, but the Bond weasels got Monday off and only had a four-day work week. Thursday was the mystery tank day when the…
Ebay (EBAY) is launching a social network site as a way to keep buyers and sellers coming back to its auction environment. According to the LA Times "The new Neighborhoods feature encourages…
Douglas A. McIntyre eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY) has acquired ViA-Online GmbH, a leading auction management software company in Germany that operates Afterbuy.com to enable professional trading on eBay.de and other online marketplaces. Unfortunately, other terms are…
Douglas A. McIntyre Caveat emptor. Word is that Microsoft (MSFT) may buy 5% of social network Facebook for as much as $500 million. And, rumor is that Google may outbid it. Ebay (EBAY) just wrote…
According to Reuters, most mutual fund companies side with management on proxy issues. The Wall Street Journal writes that Ebay (EBAY) is taking a $1.4 billion charge for Skype. The Wall Street…
eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) has announced this morning that Niklas Zennstrom has stepped down as CEO of Skype. Zennstrom, who co-founded Skype in 2003, will become non-executive chairman of the Skype Board of…
Douglas A. McIntyre Online retailer Amazon (AMZN) hit a 52-week high last week. So did Priceline (PCLN), Expedia (EXPE), and eBay (EBAY). Even Overstock (OSTK) made the list. On the 52-week low side of the…
Overall short selling has dimished for August, but it appears the short sellers are sticking around for a fight in some of the go-to internet stocks. DECREASED SHORT INTEREST: Google (GOOG) …
During the period that Ebay’s (EBAY) Skype VoIP operations were down, traffic to the skype.com website surged according to Alexa.com. Not that it did the visitors any good. Skype was off-line for…
Douglas A. McIntyre Skype is not working out very well for Ebay (ABAY). That is not just because the service has been down for two days, keeping it over 200 million subscribers off of the…
After Ebay’s (EBAY) last earnings report, CEO Meg Whitman made it clear that the company was not getting a good return on its investment in free VoIP service Skype. EBAY is paying…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Dell (DELL) will restate four years of results after an audit that lasted over a year. Reuters writes that Bear Steans (BSC) will cut 240 jobs in its sub-prime…
Ebay (EBAY) paid a lot of money for Skype. It ought to at least work. This AM the world’s largest VoIP service is off-line as is the home website help page. Perhaps…
