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<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <HTML> <HEAD> <title>AuctionBytes TV Internet Television Video - AuctionBytes News in Review</title> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <meta NAME="Author" CONTENT="Ranson's Scripts"> <meta NAME="description" CONTENT="Receller launches new service; PayPal acquires VeriSign; eBay announces "Safe Payment Policy"; UPS announces "Out of the Box" contest winners; Google opening 600-person facility near Phoenix; AuctionShark search tool adds new sites to it's service; TaoBao claims 60% market share of Chinese consumer auction space; Atlantique City antique show in New Jersey."> <meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="accelerate, accept, account, acquire, added, adding, agreement, alibaba, alibabas, amazon, announced, annually, antique, approximately, arizona, atlantique, auction, auctions, auctionshark, authorize, average, award, back, backoffice, bank, banning, began, begin, billing, billion, boston, business, businessebay, buyers, call, camera, cards, cash, centers, channeladvisors, charges, checks, childs, china, city, coach, collectibles, colorlab, company, compete, concerns, conference, consumer, consumers, contest, cosmetics, credit, custom, dealers, designs, developed, eachnet, ebay, ebayers, ebays, ecost, enforcing, engineering, entered, expandable, facility, features, fees, firstplace, foot, free, giving, google, guide, halfcom, held, illinois, inchwork, inchworm, include, indoor, innovation, inperson, interfax, issues, item, items, january, jersey, jobs, journal, june, largest, launched, list, listed, listing, locate, location, longterm, lucinda, made, magazine, mail, maine, majority, manage, march, market, massachusetts, merchant, merchants, messagegoogle, mike, miller, million, month, multisite, newsservice, october, offer, online, onlinepayment, opening, overstock, payment, paymentgateway, payments, paypal, percent, phoenix, picture, planning, plans, policy, portland, process, products, properties, quarter, questions, receller, recognizes, reference, registered, report, reporter, requesting, results, rival, rockford, rumors, safe, safety, search, searches, sellers, sells, send, service, services, share, shoe, shoes, shopping, show, site, sites, small, smallbusiness, solicit, space, speculation, sponsored, strategic, subsidiary, summer, sunnucks, support, taobao, technical, tightlipped, told, tool, trader, transactions, transfer, transfers, twothousand, ubid, union, users, verisigns, wallet, website, weekend, western, winner, winners, wire, wondered, world, worlds, yahoo, year, "> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="FFFFFF"> <CENTER><H2>Receller launches new service; PayPal acquires VeriSign; eBay announces "Safe Payment Policy"; UPS announces "Out of the Box" contest winners; Google opening 600-person facility near Phoenix; AuctionShark search tool adds new sites to it's service; TaoBao claims 60% market share of Chinese consumer auction space; Atlantique City antique show in New Jersey.</H2></CENTER> <BR><BR> Receller launched a new service for eBayers this month. Consumers can send Receller a picture of an item from a camera-phone, and a Listing Coach will call them and guide them through listing the item on eBay. Consumers use their own eBay account to list the item, and can ask Receller for help with billing issues and technical questions. <BR><BR> eBay's PayPal subsidiary will acquire VeriSign's payment-gateway business, which allows merchants to authorize, process and manage online payments. PayPal plans to accelerate its merchant services business and will pay approximately $370 million for the business. <BR><BR> eBay announced a new Safe Payments Policy due to safety concerns. eBay will allow sellers to offer PayPal, credit cards, bank transfers and checks. Sellers may also accept COD and cash for in-person transactions. Sellers may not solicit buyers to mail cash, nor may they ask buyers to send cash through wire transfer services like Western Union. eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through online-payment services not listed in eBay's policy and will begin enforcing the policy on January 15, two-thousand six. <BR><BR> UPS announced the winners of its "Out of the Box" small-business contest. First-place winner is Designs by Lucinda of Portland, Maine; second place went to Colorlab Custom Cosmetics of Rockford Illinois.  Third place went to INCHwork Shoes of Boston, Massachusetts. Hank Miller of INCHworm Shoes developed an expandable kid shoe that "grows" with a child's foot. INCHworm sells the shoes via its website, and Miller says the company sells the majority of products online. UPS said its "Out of the Box" award recognizes innovation in small business. <BR><BR> I'll be back after this message. <BR><BR> [commercial] <BR><BR> Google announced it is opening a location in Phoenix, Arizona, where it will locate 600 engineering and support jobs. Some wondered whether Google could be planning an auction site to rival eBay. But most speculation centers on a Google payment service that could compete with PayPal. According to Mike Sunnucks, a reporter with The Business Journal in Phoenix, Google was tight-lipped about its plans for the facility, but said Phoenix is known as a back-office to support payment services. Rumors of a Google online payment service began when ChannelAdvisor's CEO made reference to a Google Wallet payment service at a conference in June. ### <BR><BR> AuctionShark, which is a multi-site shopping search tool, added some new sites to its service. AuctionShark allows users to search across eBay, Yahoo Auctions, Overstock Auctions and Amazon. Now, searches will include results from uBid, Buy.com, eCost, half.com and Overstock.com. ### <BR><BR> In a China Interfax news-service report, Taobao said it has 60 percent of the market share of the consumer auction space in China. Alibaba's Taobao told Interfax it has 10 million registered users and has been adding an average of 1 million new users per month in the third quarter. This summer, Yahoo entered into a long-term strategic agreement with Alibaba, giving it $1 billion and its search properties. Taobao is a free service, while eBay EachNet charges sellers fees to list items. <BR><BR> Atlantique City took place this weekend in New Jersey. Atlantique City is the world's largest indoor art, antique and collectibles show and is held twice annually, in March and October. Now in its 19th year, the show is sponsored by Antique Trader magazine and features more than 1,000 dealers from around the world.<BR> </BODY> </HTML>