Nicholas Carlson

EBay is raising its Store Inventory listing fees, hoping to re-emphasize its auction business and recapture the growth missing from yesterday’s financials. Beginning Aug. 22, eBay will charge five cents for listings starting below $25 and 10 cents for those starting above, eBay spokesperson Catherine England told internetnews.com. The original price for both is currently […]

Wall Street analysts maintained their positive expectations of Yahoo even after the company earnings report this week highlighted a downturn in profits and product delays. Don’t worry, investors, Merrill Lynch said. Yahoo will enjoy long-term growth. And Cowen and Company said Yahoo will grow as online advertising grows. Yahoo reported yesterday their profits dropped 78 […]

A click-fraud activist believes that recent comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt about solving click fraud by ignoring it, though apparently taken out of context, still belie an intrinsic problem. The alleged misunderstanding began in March when Schmidt answered a question after his remarks at the SIEPR conference at Stanford University. “Let’s imagine for purposes […]

Feedburner, a two-year-old Web analytics start-up out of Chicago, today acquired an even smaller Web analytics firm called Blogbeat. Feedburner provides online publisher analytics about who subscribes to Web syndication feeds. Before the acquisition, Blogbeat was an online service that provided bloggers insight about what visitors read on their sites. Feedburner COO and co-founder Steve […]

Yahoo upgraded its popular finance (finance.yahoo.com) pages today, introducing new charts, adding features to its message boards, and making way for more user-generated content. The portal giant unveiled an application programming interface (API) for bloggers and Webmasters who want to add Yahoo Finance badges to their own sites. Director of product management Judy Hsieh also […]

It’s official. MySpace is the most popular stop for members having lots of time on their hands. But who cares that the social-networking behemoth is so popular if it isn’t making any money? Not only is MySpace America’s most popular social-networking site, having earned 79.9 percent of the market in June according to a Hitwise […]

Podcasts have long been a popular topic for discussion in the tech echo chamber, but a new study from Nielsen//NetRatings suggests that real audiences might be finally starting to listen to the new media form. According to the study, 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, recently downloaded an […]

The New York Times confirmed it began beta testing a service called My Times this week. Five thousand NYtimes.com subscribers were selected to try the product, which allows readers to select from a variety of syndicated content modules to place on one My Times home page. The content modules range from top New York Times […]

Speculation increased over whether AOL might give up its ISP business and offer its content for free. Some are starting to wonder why parent company Time Warner would shut off such a still strong revenue stream. Offering AOL content for free to users who subscribe to other ISPs would cost Time Warner $1 billion in […]

Be careful, MySpace users. And MSN Spaces and Yahoo 360 users for that matter. That video you want to watch on your friend’s profile may not be worth it. One such video, called “Friends play a hilarious practical joke,” is wending its way through social-networking sites. With just a few unwitting clicks agreeing to download […]

The waters around the eBay kingdom were roiling even before the company announced the imminent departure of Jeff Jordan, president of its PayPal division. Google, whose search engine remains a critical element in the eBay economy, intensified scrutiny around the online auction giant giant two weeks ago with a new rival to PayPal called Google […]

AOL is reportedly considering offering its online services for free to some of its users. After years of watching subscribers depart at an ever-increasing rate, AOL is considering dropping the subscription business model and re-focusing on advertising revenue, the Wall Street Journal reported today, citing people familiar with the matter. AOL CEO Jonathan Miller presented […]