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Google Wave Pushes AppJet to Sell Out to Google

December 5th, 2009 | No Comments

Google purchased real-time document collaboration startup AppJet to fortify the Google Wave real-time collaboration platform Dec. 4. The move was a sell out from a company that felt it couldn’t compete with the sheer scope of Wave and Google, Y Combinator partner Paul Graham said. Now EtherPad is no longer accepting new customers and anyone who have registered an e-mail address with EtherPad will be e-mailed an invitation to join the Google Wave preview by December 31, 2009. EtherPad users are angry and Graham’s explanation of why AppJet quit is unlikely to appease them.
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Google purchased real-time document collaboration startup
AppJet to fortify the Google Wave real-time collaboration platform, AppJet said
on its blog Dec. 4.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed though
GigaOm reported a purchase price of $10 million. The move was a sell …

Amazon Will Sell 550,000 Kindle E-Readers in 2009, Says Analyst

December 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Amazon.com is expected to sell over half a million Kindle e-readers in 2009, according to a research note released by Collins Stewart. That report comes just as Barnes Noble announces that its Nook e-reader, judged by many to be the Kindle’s primary competition, will not ship units preordered after Nov. 30 until Jan. 11. Although the Kindle is the most well-known e-reader, more than 40 other e-reader mobile devices continue to push for their own share of the market.
– Amazon.com is expected to sell about 550,000 Kindle devices in 2009,
according to a research note issued on Dec. 1 by financial advisory group
Collins Stewart. The note’s chief author, Sandeep Aggarwal, also pointed out
that the Kindle faces competition from about 40 other e-readers, including
B…

Food markets: How to store and sell more stuff

November 19th, 2009 | No Comments

Poor places need more than seeds, fertiliser or even food science

IF FOOD aid is epitomised by a single image, it is that of neat bags of grain, stamped with the Stars and Stripes and labelled a “gift from the American people”, being unloaded in some benighted place. In a long-established practice, USAID buys food from American producers and then gives it to charities who sell the produce on the markets of indigent countries, and in turn use the proceeds to finance their anti-poverty work.

This method has its detractors, who say that sales of American food depress local markets; in theory at least, all sales should be calibrated to avoid that effect. But in a switch which might help to parry those critics, USAID is now putting more emphasis on helping farmers in recipient countries to harvest, store and above all sell their own food. Many of the changes now being encouraged have no relation to food production as such; they have to do with the ways markets are organised, credit is disbursed and laws are enforced. …

High-End Brand Publishers Need to Sell Scalable Premium Ad Solutions, Not Commodity Ad Space

October 26th, 2009 | No Comments

Newspaper online advertising has not benefited greatly from the recent upswing in online ad spending, according to the New York Times and most of the recent newspaper company quarterly results. This is no surprise because most newspaper websites sell SPACE for commodity advertising — display ads and classifieds — and thus are hard pressed to [...]

Dell Will Sell Smartphones in U.S. in 2010, Michael Dell Reveals

October 14th, 2009 | No Comments

In a dinner conversation, CEO addresses a number of other topics, including the impending public launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 ( You’ll love your PC again! ), the 2007 EqualLogic acquisition ( This company had about 3,300 customers when we acquired it; we’ve added 10,000 new customers ), and the increasing dominance of the server in the data center.
– SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Dell CEO and founder Michael Dell told a
reporter Oct. 13 that his company plans to market an Android smartphone
in the United States sometime early next year.

Dell made his revelation in a separate conversation after finishing a
75-minute appearance with the Wall Street…

Portsmouth owner Al Fahim to sell majority shareholding

October 4th, 2009 | No Comments

Portsmouth’s new owner Sulaiman Al Fahim is to sell the majority of his holding in the Premier League club to a member of one of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest families, he was quoted as saying on Sunday. The Observer said Al- Fahim told the newspaper that a deal with Ali al-Faraj, a

SAP, Salesforce.com Could Sell Their Wares in the Google Wave Store

September 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Salesforce.com, SAP and several other companies have lined up to show off applications they created using the APIs from the open-source Google Wave platform. If SAP and Salesforce.com flesh out their prototypes, they could be a lock to sell in the forthcoming Google Wave store. Real-time collaboration solutions leveraging Wave could prove very useful for users of enterprise and CRM applications, boosting the marketability of applications that can run in Wave.
– Salesforce.com, SAP and several other
companies have lined up to show off applications they created using the APIs
from the open-source Google Wave platform.
These Wave extensions could be promising enough to find their way into the
Google Wave application store Google is planning.
Launching …

ATandT to Sell Garmin GPS Phone

September 29th, 2009 | No Comments

Garmin nÃ¼vifone G60 is set for an Oct. 4 U.S. debut exclusively through AT T. The G60 has the same core features as a high-end Garmin nÃ¼vi and comes preloaded with maps and points of interest for North America.
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AT amp;T said Sept. 29 it would exclusively offer the Garmin nÃ¼vifone
G60 beginning Oct. 4. The phone combines a GPS navigator with voice,
data and the mobile Web.

The nÃ¼vifone G60 will be available in AT amp;T stores or online for $299 with a two-year service agreement after $100
mail-…

Why Did Microsoft Sell Off 22 ‘Linux-Related’ Patents?

September 8th, 2009 | No Comments

The Open Invention Network acquires 22 patents that purportedly relate to Linux from AST, which had acquired them from Microsoft. OIN questions Microsoft’s motive in selling off the patents elsewhere.
– What was Microsoft’s motive in selling off 22 patents purportedly relating
to Linux?
The Open Invention Network Sept. 8 confirmed its acquisition of 22 patents
formerly held by Microsoft that it described as quot;Linux-focused. quot; OIN
acquired the patents from the Allied Security Trust, whic…

eBay Will Sell Majority Stake in Skype to Private Investors

September 1st, 2009 | No Comments

eBay plans to sell 65 percent of its stake in Skype, the popular Internet-based calling service, to a group of private investors that include Marc Andreessen’s venture-capital firm. Although the acquisition of Skype by eBay appeared promising, a lawsuit and other issues prevented the original deal from reaching its full potential, despite robust revenue and user numbers. Analysts suggest that the private investor group may have big plans for Skype.
– Four years after acquiring Skype Technologies, eBay
plans to resell a majority share of the Internet-based calling service to a
team of private investors for $1.9 billion in cash.

The investor group, headed by Silver Lake Partners and including Marc
Andreessen’s venture-capital firm Andreesse…

eBay reaches deal to sell Skype

September 1st, 2009 | No Comments

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Online auction site eBay is poised to say it has agreed to sell internet phone company Skype, reports say.

Skype is expected to be sold to a group of private investors, including Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and private equity firms.

EBay has been trying to sell Skype for some time, and has said that Skype had "limited synergies" with it.

When eBay bought Skype for $2.6bn (£1.6bn) in October 2005, many analysts thought the price was too high.

For sale

The New York Times said that a price has not been named, but that eBay had been seeking about $2bn for Skype.

Earlier this year, eBay had said that it planned to spin off Skype and list its shares in the first half of 2010, an announcement many took as a signal that the firm was for sale.

Skype’s software lets computer and mobile phone users talk to each other for free and make cut-price calls to mobiles and landlines.

Unlike traditional mobile calls, which are transmitted over a cellular network, Skype turns your voice into data and sends it over the internet.

Since being acquired, the number of registered Skype users has risen to 405 million from 53 million, though free user-to-user calls still dominate the service.

This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

17 Tips to Sell Travel on Ebay

August 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Becoming a seller on ebay can be daunting. Becoming a travel seller can be impossible, unless you know the secrets. My tips on selling on eBay can apply to all categories of items, but some steps are unique to selling travel. The travel industry is highly regulated on EBay, as it should be. High standards [...]

Deciding What to Sell on eBay

August 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment

Almost everybody has dreams of the day that they will be able to leave their job and set up on eBay as a way to provide for them and their families. Being self employed on eBay seems like a dream for many people. Being your own boss would be fantastic. However it can be very [...]

Wooing wrong

July 30th, 2009 | No Comments

The tough sell of soft power

FOREIGNERS visiting Moldova have plenty of people to talk to. Poverty and geopolitical woes mean that the country attracts an above-average bunch of outsiders. But local voices are even more impressive. One of them is Natalia Morar (pictured), a feisty 25-year-old investigative journalist. Finding Ms Morar at home in Moldova used to be rather difficult—she worked as an investigative reporter for New Times, an independent magazine based in Moscow. But in late 2007 she published an article called “The black cash of the Kremlin” about the way in which rake-offs from business were used to finance Russian politics. For that she was expelled from Russia (and even marrying a Russian colleague has been not enough to get her back into that country).

Now Ms Morar is in trouble in Moldova too. She was charged with sedition after the protests in April against election-rigging. Since then she has been unable to leave the country. That makes it easy to meet Ms Morar to discuss both authoritarian crony capitalism in Russia and its more diluted but still unpleasant local equivalent. …

Will Kim Kardashian sell ex-beau Reggie Bushâ€™â€™s Clothes for charity?

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

While Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush have called it quits, many are wondering whether the former will sell off her ex-beauâ€™s clothes as part of their eBay charity auction.
The duo, who parted ways amicably, used to sell their goods together on Kimâ€™s eBay site.
And now that the socialite is cleaning out her wardrobe with a [...]

Yahoo May Sell HotJobs, Yahoo Small Business, Report Says

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Yahoo may sell its HotJobs and Yahoo Small Business units as part of a push to rid itself of non-core assets, according to a published report.
– Reuters) – Internet giant Yahoo Inc is looking to sell HotJobs and
Yahoo Small Business as part of its drive to shed its non-core assets,
peHUB, owned by ThomsonReuters, said, citing sources familiar to the
matter.
quot;They have been approached by but they are proactively looking to
sell to a…

Yoani Sanchez: Forbidden To Buy Or Sell, Creative Cubans “Trade” Their Houses

July 20th, 2009 | No Comments

Exclusive to Huffington Post. The lady holds a sign that reads, “To trade: house in Central Havana. Needed: two apartments in Cerro.” Starting very…

A Switch from VMware Is a Tough Sell

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Would you rather fight than switch from VMware vSphere to Hyper-V or Xen-based implementations? eWEEK Labs compares the benefits and drawbacks of current virtualization platforms.
– When I reviewed VMware vSphere
4 in June, I gave it an eWEEK Labs Analysts Choice. I clearly think the platform,
formerly called VMware Infrastructure, is solid, and so do the many
organizations out there that have implemented it.
Recently, eWEEK Labs Executive Editor Jason Brooks
asked me what…