In an interview with CNBC-TV18's President & Editorial Director of TV18 Business Media, Senthil Chengalvarayan, eBay's President & CEO John Donahoe spoke about the company's India plans. Below is a verbatim transcript of the interview.
Bebo has been one of those social networks that keeps on ticking. After being snatched up by AOL for $850 million only to get dumped by the Internet pioneer, the company recently made some strong management moves to position themselves for growth.
Recently, I had the chance to interview Adam Levin, CEO of Bebo, about the company's future and the very competitive social media landscape.
Professional-networking site LinkedIn rolled out LinkedIn for iPhone v3.2, which makes it easier for users to track changes to their contacts' information and is enhanced for the new Retina display on the iPhone 4.
Senior product manager Chad Whitney posted on the LinkedIn Blog:
We've made a number of changes to how we show profile updates from your connections to make it easier to quickly find the most important changes.
EBay site Mobile.de is Germany’s biggest classified site for used cars. Now the company wants to focus more strongly on the new car sales. According to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Mobile.de is currently negotiating intensely with manufacturers and dealers.
Swimming in our ocean of online adverts is not the only exercise Dealfish is doing these days. Have you spotted the new cycle taxis in town? Well, be on the lookout, because Dealfish is about to take you for a ride with a difference.
TeleNav, Inc. (NASDAQ: TNAV), one of the largest global wireless location-based services providers with more than 16 million subscribers, today announced a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch* called Jungle!. Jungle! is a convenient way for college students to buy, sell and request products and services in their area, including textbooks, tutoring or even housing, based on their current location.
Skype said Monday it's going public and hopes to raise $100 million from investors in the stock market.
This has venture capitalists salivating.
Everyone knows Skype, the company that offers free- and nearly free calling around the world. It's base of connected users grew 40 percent last year; net sales are up 25 percent from the first half of last year to the first half of this year. If Skype can launch a successful initial public offering (IPO), that will prepare the way for Facebook and other high-powered high-tech wonders to sell shares in coming years.
The Dubai-based site said 28 percent of the more than 230 ads offering BlackBerrys for sale had been posted in the last three days, compared with 22 percent of iPhone classifieds during the same period.
Nokia Beta Labs has taken the wraps off a new service, Nokia Listings, that is currently available only in the Indian market. Listings are available for three main classifieds formats – Jobs (from ‘Maid who can cook’ to ‘legal’), (Hyper) Local Services, and products (Buy and Sell). However, the ability to browse existing listings does not exist, and I think that is primarily down to Nokia using SMS as a carrier instead of GPRS: thus, live results aren’t available. Nokia Listings primarily targets the Series 40 handsets, but also works for non-touch screen Series 60 (S60) handsets.
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - July 27, 2010) - OLX today introduced the OLX application available for free from Apple's iTunes app store. OLX users can now search local classified ads, reply to listings, & post ads with just a few simple taps and, as always, the use of OLX is completely free. OLX has been already available to mobile internet users for over three years with its mobile-friendly site accessible at http://m.olx.com and is now launching its application for all major mobile operating systems, beginning with the iPhone.
You’ve heard it all before. “It’s the end of print.” “Newspapers are obsolete”... or the ubiquitous “I get all my news from the Internet.” Where do newspapers fit in today’s web-enabled, mobile-device toting, instant news world? Aren’t they a thing of the past?
eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), a leading online destination for fashion, today introduces the eBay Fashion app for the Apple iPhone, delivering a personalized shopping experience where shoppers can browse, buy — and virtually “try on” — items from the world’s largest online selection of new, designer, branded and vintage merchandise - virtually anytime, anywhere.The new app, available for free via iTunes®, delivers an enhanced tool for customers to shop fashion on eBay and unlock the incredible value and selection available on eBay’s Marketplace, right from the palm of their hand.
Research In Motion (RIM) , a world leader in wireless innovation, and eBay, a global leader in mobile commerce and the world's largest online marketplace, today jointly announced that the free eBay Application for BlackBerry(R)
Classified Concepts is pleased to announce its partnership with The E.W. Scripps Company. The Scripps Company will be utilizing CCText™, a mobile text advertising program for classifieds, across all fourteen of its daily and community newspapers.
Liquid Motors Inc., a provider of comprehensive inventory management and marketing solutions for automobile dealers, announced today the launch of their Mobile Portal Service which allows their dealers access to the Liquid Motors
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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