bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/12/2009
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In a meeting with analysts, eBay executives laid out a plan to fix the company and tried to distinguish the site from pure retailers like Amazon.com.
Analysts Barf All Over eBay
businessinsider.com 3/12/2009 — A few analysts made the trek to San Jose yesterday to see what eBay (EBAY) had to say for itself. Not much, apparently.
Dreamy PayPal forecasts, crappy business trends, major strategic shift (Think of us as "PayPal" now), wimpy cost cuts, no ...
Breaking: eBay Announces Plans To Spin Off Skype, IPO For 2010
techcrunch.com 4/15/2009 — After earlier reports that Skype ’s founders were trying to buy back the company from eBay , the company has now released the news that it plans to spin off Skype as a separate company and file for an initial public offering. The IPO is ...
Is eBay Ready To Start The Bidding For Skype?
businessweek.com 3/12/2009 — At its annual meeting today, eBay executives broke out more details about the health of its Skype unit than it has in the past. Turns out the Net phone calling software pioneer enjoyed 20% net income last year, on $550...
eBay Inc. - eBay Inc. Announces Three-Year Roadmap For Growth
investor.ebay.com 3/17/2009 — Total company revenues are expected to reach $10 billion to $12 billion in 2011, up from $8.5 billion in 2008, led by strong PayPal growth, Skype and other ecommerce formats. Earnings are expected to grow in the mid-single digit range in 2011. Free ...
eBay Planning IPO For Skype
paidcontent.org 4/14/2009 — eBay ( NSDQ: EBAY ) said Tuesday it would spinoff its Skype calling service via an initial public offering some time next year. The announcement culminates months of speculation about eBay's plans for Skype and comes a day after the auction site ...
eBay CEO Donahoe: We're Still Open To A Sale Of Skype
paidcontent.org 4/16/2009 — Don't put that Skype IPO into your calendars just yet. Earlier this week, eBay ( NSDQ: EBAY ) said it would spin off the calling service, but today CEO John Donahoe amended that, saying the company was still open to other offers. He said that he ...
Why eBay Should Consider Breaking Itself Up [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 2/16/2009 — Nearly five years into a steady buying binge, eBay is looking bloated, unfocused and schizophrenic. eBay owns well over 100 subsidiaries , some of which were built in-house. But many are acquisitions that have been crammed into the parent company ...
Should eBay Spin Off Skype? The Debate Continues [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 1/28/2009 — Should eBay spin off Skype? While it’s a bad time for eBay to try and spin off it or anything else as the company tries to refocus itself and save its core franchise of online auctions, the answer to that question is yes. Armed with comments ...
eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an IPO
blogs.zdnet.com 4/15/2009 — EBay will recoup some of its losses on Skype via an initial public offering. Or at least that’s what the online auctioneer is hoping.
In a statement, eBay seems to have given its reply to the buyback plans of Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and ...
Amazon tweaks EC2 pricing —
CNET News - Business Tech 3/12/2009
This was originally published at ZDNet's Between the Lines .
Amazon has tweaked its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) pricing model to be more enterprise-friendly. The move is significant enough to sway IT executives to adopt more of Amazon's Web ...
SOA Security: The Basics —
Latest from Computerworld 3/12/2009
In this article, we examine how security applies to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Before we discuss security for SOA, lets take a step back and examine what SOA is. SOA is an architectural approach which involves applications being exposed as ...
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