Ohio Residents Will Need License To Sell On eBay
A new Ohio law, effective May 2nd, requires residents to obtain a license and post a $50,000 bond in order to sell on eBay as part of a business. While occasional sellers are probably immune, it is...
View ArticleOnline Spending For Paid Content Growing
According to a report by the Online Publishers Association, online spending for paid content grew 14% last year to $1.8 billion. The biggest increase was for entertainment, specifically online music...
View ArticleNewspapers May Start Charging For Online Access
The New York Times takes a look at the online newspaper industry to find out when these publishers will begin charging for access...
View ArticleNewspapers vs. Online Classifieds
Online web sites are taking an ever bigger bite out of classified ad spending and making newspapers very nervous. According to a recent report, spending for online classifieds reached almost $2 Billion...
View ArticleOnline Dating Sites May Soon Be Regulated in Some States
The State of Florida is debating legislation that would regulate online dating sites by forcing them to disclose information about what kind of member screening measures are in force at each particular...
View ArticleA Dozen Music Download Services Put To The Test
ExtremeTech has published an excellent review and comparison of a dozen commercial music download services. They compared not just the big ones like iTunes Music Store, MSN Music, eMusic, Napster,...
View ArticleRSS Advertising, The Next Frontier
Beyond banner ads, beyond contextual text links, beyond permission-based e-mail, there exists the virgin frontier of RSS. The audience of RSS readers is growing very fast, and where there are eyeballs,...
View ArticleSony Creating Auction Site for Virtual Goods
Sony Online Entertainment, the company that runs the multiplayer online games EverQuest and Star Wars Galaxies, has set up an auction for the buying and selling virtual goods. The service, called...
View ArticleIs eBay Collapsing?
Many are starting to think that eBay is starting to collapse. One thing is for sure, eBay shareholders aren't very happy as they watch eBay's market cap deflate and its traffic diminish. According to...
View ArticleVisa, MasterCard, American Express Go After E-Commerce Sites
Visa, MasterCard, and American Express are going after e-commerce sites to make sure that customer data is secure. After June 30th, companies selling online will have to apply for certification under...
View ArticleRealNetworks Overhauls Rhapsody, Goes After iTunes
RealNetworks completed the overhaul of its Rhapsody digital music service and has decided to take on Apple's iTunes head on. In what could be the start of a major price war, Rhapsody is allowing users...
View ArticleYahoo Music Service May Ignite Price War
Yahoo has announced their new Yahoo Music Unlimited service, priced at just $6.99 a month or $60 for a full year. The service offers subscribers access to unlimited music downloads that can played on...
View ArticleYahoo! Auctions Eliminates Fees
Yahoo! Inc. has announced that it will stop charging fees for auctions on its U.S. site to encourage more people to use auction service. Previously, Yahoo! Auctions charged 5 to 75 cents for listing an...
View ArticleGoogle Launching Payment Service to Rival PayPal
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google is preparing to launch an electronic payment service in the next six months that would rival PayPal. If true, this would be a major blow to eBay, the parent...
View ArticleAmazon.com May Compete With iTunes Music Store
According to a number of news sources, Amazon.com is getting ready to launch a service to rival Apple's iTunes Music Store. All this speculation is based on a job listing posted by Amazon.com earlier...
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