After this week, both Cisco, the dominant manufacturer of Internet routers, and eBay, the main online-auction house, may have to watch their backs.
Former eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman acquired its stake in the belief that Skype would help accelerate online sales if the buyers and sellers on the online-auction site used the service to communicate.
They can even bid for clients--by phone or online--during the auction.
"That's why we say, 'Fine wine for the privileged many, ' " said Jerome Zech, chief executive of WineBid, which entered the online wine-auction business early it was founded in 1996, one year after eBay.
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But she'll have to keep improving, as her biggest challenge yet--keeping Microsoft and AOL from entering her online auction garden--looms on the horizon.
Pierre Omidyar replaced the yard sale with a person-to-person online auction, called eBay.
Desperate for a way to show the pipelines they were better off together, an Aerie executive used game theory to design a mock online auction of rights-of-way.
On Tuesday, Saks will put its finger directly on the pulse of one of the most thrilling e-commerce experiences since the online auction: flash sales.
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The Internet-based auction site purchased two online classifieds businesses and the online payment services company Bill Me Later.
There is one day left to bid on a golf outing with former President Bill Clinton through an online auction house Charitybuzz.com that offers one-of-a kind experiences to raise money for noteworthy causes.
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The chairman and CEO of the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction was told repeatedly that online auctions would swiftly destroy his business.
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The biggest online auction site on the planet, eBay, is going pop-up store for holiday shopping, reversing the trend of brick and mortar integrating digital, and integrating in reverse.
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It seems that the combination of digital payments, always-online play and the temptations to fraudulent practices created by the heavily-trailed (and much-delayed) Real Money Auction House, in which players can buy and sell items for cash with Blizzard taking a transaction fee, is causing trouble.
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