eBay Ads May Deflect Buyers

Imagine that someone leased space for a small sandwich shop.  Then the landlord plastered signs for Jimmy John’s, Subway, and Schlotzsky’s all around the area.  Not good, eh?  And some eBay sellers feel that they’ve been put in a similar position.

Newsvine Plucked By MSNBC

News community site Newsvine just made an undisclosed amount of cash for its owners as MSNBC agreed to purchase it.

Google’s Cut? Forty Percent, Baby

Divide the online advertising revenue pool into ten slices. Google devours four all by itself, to the tune of $7.5 billion in the US market so far in 2007.  

eBay Buys Auction Management Software, Site

“German engineering” is often a selling point in and of itself.  And so I have to wonder how many times that phrase came up while eBay was in the process of acquiring ViA-Online GmbH, a German auction management software company.

Yahoo oneSearch Finds Answers And Wikipedia

Yahoo oneSearch has gotten a whole lot smarter - the mobile service is integrating content from both Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia.  Frequent travelers will be happy to hear that airline information is getting added, as well.