Ebay to experiment again with local auction sites by Ben Berkowitz. Reuters (Feb 24) via CBS Marketwatch. - May open up auction sites for individual cities.
Of interest - "Ebay, which has 41,000 auction categories worldwide and gets up to 6,000 item listings per second at peak times, will focus its investments in 2004 on its PayPal payments business, operations in China, and infrastructure, she [Chief Executive Meg Whitman ] said." EBay does not see Google, Yahoo or MSN as competitors in spite of their interest in shopping. Whitman said they were "enablers of our business."
Posted by Gwen at February 25, 2004 10:23 AM