Net giants challenge French data law. 6 April 2011Last updated at 15:01 The French government wants access to a range of data stored by Google, eBay and others Google and Facebook are among a group of net heavyweights taking the French government to court this week. The legal challenge has been brought by The French Association of Internet Community Services (ASIC) and relates to government plans to keep web users' personal data for a year.
The case will be heard by the State Council, France's highest judicial body. More than 20 firms are involved, including eBay and Dailymotion. The law obliges a range of e-commerce sites, video and music services and webmail providers to keep a host of data on customers. This includes users' full names, postal addresses, telephone numbers and passwords. Police, the fraud office, customs, tax and social security bodies will all have the right of access. ASIC head Benoit Tabaka believes that the data law is unnecessarily draconian. "This is a shocking measure," added Mr Tabaka. Privacy record. eBay History. eBay History > Website eBay was founded in Pierre Omidyar's San Jose living room back in September 1995.
It was from the start meant to be a marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals. In 1998, Pierre and his cofounder Jeff Skoll brought in Meg Whitman to sustain the success. Meg had studied at the Harvard Business School and had learned the importance of branding at companies such as Hasbro. Meg culled her senior staff from companies such as Pepsico and Disney, created an experienced management team with an average of 20 years of business experience and built a strong vision for the company -- that eBay is a company that's in the business of connecting people, not selling them things.
They quickly shed the image of only auctioning collectibles and moved into an array of upscale markets where the average sale price (ASP) is higher. eBay Timeline, 21st Century. Houses, townhouses, condos for sale in East Bay World News California Bay Area Silicon Valley San Jose eBay (119) Neighbor News Timelines: Neighbor Real Estate: Add a favorite (file a bookmark) to eBay News Timeline Please send feedback to: support@mapreport.com Advertise on eBay Page XML Details: All information provided is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed and should be independently verified.
Copyright © CNT Group; 2000. eBay 1999-2009: A Decade of Growth - eBay News. This decade has seen a revolution in the way that people shop and earn online. eBay has been at the epicenter of that revolution, experiencing and driving massive changes, both in the larger online marketplace in eBay's own core business structure. The '00s saw eBay grow from a relatively American-centric outfit with 10 million registered users (far fewer of them active) and a trading volume of $2.8 billion annually to one of the most heralded online retail organizations on Earth, with well over 86 million active traders (and registrations in the many hundreds of millions) and a trading volume of some $60 billion or more annually.
Along the way, major online brands like PayPal, Skype, and Shopping.com were bought (and in some cases sold) and eBay's workforce grew from just a few thousand to some 15,000. eBay Highlights 1999-2009 eBay Tomorrow Today there are challenges for eBay on all sides. EBAY FINANCE DES MARCHES VIRTUELS EN INDONESIE. Want to expand your micro-business in Indonesia? There may soon be an app for that. Last week eBay announced its collaboration with the Grameen Foundation, a global non-profit group, to design and launch two mobile technology solutions in the Indonesian province of West Java. The 18-month-long project, which officially started last month, is a branch off of the Mobile Microfranchising Initiative — an existing Grameen effort that provides mobile phones to micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries.
This new initiative, said eBay Head of Global Social Innovation Lauren Moore, will aim to produce both a mobile transaction system and mobile marketplace for the existing entrepreneurs and community members in the region. "We (eBay) held a competition last year, called the Opportunity Project, where we looked for some of the best ideas around the world," she said. "If you think about these folks from rural communities, they don't really have access to any kind of communication," Moore said.
A propos d'eBay. Mon Monde eBay. Valeurs eBay. eBay accueille les grandes marques sans pénaliser les petits vendeurs. Delphine Rieutord, responsable de la communication envers les vendeurs professionnels chez eBay eBay, l’une des places de marché les plus visitées de France, s’éloigne de plus en plus de ses racines CtoC (consumer-to-consumer), et compte désormais avant tout sur ses milliers de vendeurs professionnels pour alimenter sa plateforme en millions de références. Mais même ses vendeurs professionnels pourraient laisser à leur tour la place… A qui ? Aux grandes marques et gros distributeurs, de plus en plus séduits par l’audience globale du site de E-Commerce. Mais eBay se veut rassurant sur la paisible coexistence des « anciens » et des gros nouveaux. Les marques écoulent leurs stocks sur eBay Responsable de la communication avec les vendeurs professionnels chez eBay, Delphine Rieutord informe les vendeurs des évolutions de la plateforme, et les aide à faire croitre leurs activités en leur fournissant conseils et formations. eBay n’est pas le seul à aller les chercher.
The Sharing Economy. It’s 8:30 a.m. in Silicon Valley, and Neal Gorenflo is already busy sharing. Inside his Mountain View town house, just a few short blocks from the Caltrain station where commuters pour out each morning on their way to Google, Gorenflo hands over his 15-month-old son, Jake, to a nanny he shares with his neighbor. At a local coffee shop, he logs on to a peer-to-peer banking site called Lending Club to make a series of small loans to someone planning a wedding, another starting a pet business, and a guy named Pat who wants to move. After biking down to the station, he drags his ancient Peugeot onto the train to San Francisco, where he hops into a Prius he’s reserved for a few hours from City CarShare, a not-for-profit version of Zipcar.
After driving out to Berkeley for a tour of a cohousing community, he finally lands at a shared office space in SoMa, from which he works once a week. Gorenflo does, of course, still own stuff. AirBnB, on the other hand, had to create demand. He laughs. Wikinomics-le blog de Tapscott. Dear Wikinomics community member, I want to thank you for your support and interest for Wikinomics.com. We created this site more than four years ago as a follow-on forum for the ideas Anthony D.
Williams and I presented in our 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything. The book revealed how mass collaboration was reinventing the way businesses communicate, create value, and compete in the new global marketplace. Since its inception, Wikinomics.com has hosted many good discussions with insights from posters and readers alike. Now we want to continue and expand the same great discussions on a new site, Macrowikinomics.com, which derives its name from my most recent collaboration with Anthony, Macrowikinomics: New Solutions for a Connected Planet.
The book’s thesis is that we are mired in more than just a recession. Please join all of us at Wikinomics.com as we make the move to Macrowikinomics.com. Best, Don Tapscott. eBay and Craigslist = a failed marriage? The New York Times recently ran a great story / interview with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark in which he addresses some of the issues arising from eBay’s lawsuit against the company. eBay bought a 28% stake in the online classifieds site back in August 2004, a purchase that seemed to line-up much better with the online auctioneers core strategy compared to the ill-timed purchase of Skype.
But eBay wasn’t content to stop with Craigslist and bought Marktplaats.nl later that year, launched Kijiji in March 2005, and rounded it all off with the purchase of Gumtree a few months later. And while these latter three acquisitions all focused on the European market, in July of 2007 eBay decided to extend Kijiji into the US and Canadian markets, thus representing a direct challenge to Craigslist. The move was a bit strange given the dominance of Craigslist in the US and has led to a rather acrimonious relationship between the two companies.
So where does that leave the eBay and Craigslist? The reputation economy and government. We’re all familiar with the concrept of reputation and how in a world of social networks, voting and rank, it’s becoming increasingly important. That’s not, however, to say that it’s a new concept. Information asymmetry in commerce is a centuries old problem. Solving it through reputation is equally ancient. We may associate eBay with our modern definition of online reputation but the concept is perhaps earliest associated by archival records of trading between Maghribi merchants in the 11the century. Research on these early economic transactions show that the key to curtailing “opportunistic behaviour and promoting trust between agents” in an environment of high information asymmetry was a system of reputations that was developed and shared between the agents within a trading coalition or network. Like on eBay, success for the seller rested upon the fear of exclusion from the trading network – thus promoting honest behaviour and fair trading amongst Maghribi merchants.
eBay’s foray into social commerce. Back in the mid 1990s I was trumpeting this little company called AuctionWeb – a place where people could go on this new thing called the “internet” to buy or sell any number of different goods. While we were writing about it, some other people were investing small sums of money in it, which eventually turned into billion dollar equity stakes in an online behemoth now known as eBay. While it was nice to be proven right, there might still be a little regret over not getting in on the ground floor. Since then eBay has had some ups and downs, with various people questioning the logic behind multi billion dollar acquisitions of companies like PayPal and Skype. But through it all, the core auction site and the powerful network effects built into it have remained an almost unassailable growth and profit making machine.
Our feedback system is based on transactions, as opposed to determining whether I can trust this person through some other relationship other than a transaction. a494355.