eBay Completes Tender Offer for Gmarket

Today eBay announced the completion of a tender offer for all outstanding common shares and American Depositary Shares (ADSs) of Gmarket. Back in April, eBay announced that it was spending $1.2 billion to acquire those shares. Gmarket is known as Korea's leading eCommerce business, and it will apparently be combined with eBay's existing online marketplace in Korea, Internet Auction Company.

The Twitpocalypse Is Upon Us

Update 1: The Twitpocalypse occured on June 12, 2009 at 11:52 PM GMT. UPDATE 2: The Twitpocalypse has claimed its first victim, the popular iPhone app Twitterrific, read more here. That's right, the Twitpocalypse is almost here.

iPhone: Fun Facts and Apps of the Day

As you are probably aware, Apple announced last week that the iPhone 3G S would go on sale this Friday. Phone recycler Gazelle tells Webproworld that 300 iPhones were traded into its site that day alone. Saving Money on the iPhone Upgrade

SEO Checklist with Vanessa Fox

When you are evaluating your website from an SEO/Indexing/Crawlability perspective there are a few things to keep in mind and some important questions you may not be asking yourself. What questions are you asking yourself? Share with Webproworld readers.

Google Aims For Idiot Box Opposite With Citizentube

Over the years, YouTube's been used for increasingly serious purposes.  Now, we've apparently reached the point at which those purposes are important and numerous enough to get their own blog, as Google's set something called Citizentube (with zero capital "t"s, yes) aside to cover them.