eBay boss declares era of e-commerce is over

Last Updated on Monday, 7 November 2011 02:45 Written by a2e Monday, 7 November 2011 02:45

Open Mobile Summit John Donahoe, CEO of eBay, has said that the concept of e-commerce is dead and buried, since consumers really don’t care about where they buy, so long as they get the cheapest price.

Speaking at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, Donahoe said that the increasing use of mobile technology had blurred the barrier between e-commerce and regular retail to such an extent that the former term was essentially meaningless. Now consumers are walking into retail stores, and using their phones to identify better prices for goods they like, and will use either online or offline purchasing to get the price they want.

“Over the last 12-18 months we at eBay have changed our view on e-commerce,” he explained. “We’re now seeing a profound change in how consumers are behaving, and we’re going to see more changes in the next three years than we’re seen in the previous 20 in terms of shopping and payments. Mobile devices are blurring the lines between online and offline at a rate no one would have predicted.”



http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/03/ebay_declares_ecommerce_over/
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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:27 Written by External Post Sunday, 30 October 2011 10:27

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eBay to Outline Its Future and It Looks Nothing Like Amazon

Last Updated on Friday, 28 October 2011 03:20 Written by a2e Friday, 28 October 2011 03:20

For the past decade, eBay and Amazon have been considered two of the most dominant e-commerce companies, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the two are headed down entirely different paths.

At eBay’s developer conference kicking off Wednesday in San Francisco, more than 4,000 developers and merchants will receive a preview of X.commerce, the company’s new technology platform aimed at developers.

The non-consumer-focused platform will enable developers to use the tools to build applications for retailers that are looking to have a larger presence on social networks, online and mobile phones.

Also on stage will be some of eBay’s new partners, including Omniture, Adobe’s marketing and advertising unit, and Katie Mitic, the director of platform and mobile marketing at Facebook.

Mitic, who recently joined eBay’s board, is expected to announce a partnership between the social network and eBay.



http://allthingsd.com/20111011/ebay-set-to-outline-its-future-and-it-looks-nothing-like-amazon/
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Google Fights Off Brain Drain With PostRank Buy

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:25 Written by External Post Saturday, 4 June 2011 01:25

Google’s acquisition of social analytics technology startup PostRank indicates the company is also looking beyond its own walls to get its social efforts off the ground. Scouting for fresh talent externally is a smart move for Google, an aging player in
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Google Claims U.S. Excluded It From Contract

Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 November 2010 03:02 Written by External Post Tuesday, 2 November 2010 03:02

The company said the Interior Department considered only sales proposals with e-mail and collaboration tools based on Microsoft technology.
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Google Sues Government Over Contract Exclusion

Last Updated on Monday, 1 November 2010 11:02 Written by External Post Monday, 1 November 2010 11:02

The company said the Department of Interior was “arbitrary and capricious” by only considering sales proposals with e-mail technology based on Microsoft technology.
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Google speeds its new Web video software

Last Updated on Monday, 1 November 2010 07:41 Written by External Post Monday, 1 November 2010 07:41

The “Aylesbury” release of Google’s streaming video technology decodes WebM video faster, encodes it better, the company says. Coming by March: “Bali.” Originally posted at Deep Tech
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Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter fans: connect with silicon.com

Last Updated on Friday, 29 October 2010 01:40 Written by External Post Friday, 29 October 2010 01:40

Add silicon.com to your social network today: whether you’re a Facebook fanatic, in love with LinkedIn or just trying out Twitter, it’s easy to keep up with the UK’s best quality business and technology title. silicon.com’s Facebook page lets you discuss
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VMware and Google set date for web development tools

Last Updated on Friday, 22 October 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Friday, 22 October 2010 08:20

VMware and Google are set to release three collaborative technology projects to speed application development. At the SpringOne 2GX developer conference on Thursday, the two companies announced that three of their collaborative projects will be available
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Why do we Google and Facebook, while we don’t Powerpoint or Excel?

Last Updated on Monday, 18 October 2010 10:40 Written by External Post Monday, 18 October 2010 10:40

AFTER posting on Friday about the verb to google , I’ve been wondering why it was such an obvious word to verb, so much so that Larry Page and Sergey Brin did so already in 1998. If we think about technology, we Facebook, Google and Twitter (or tweet ,
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