Privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute along with Internet privacy leader TRUSTe have named eBay the 2009 Most Trusted Company for Privacy, citing the company as proof that an e-commerce site can protect consumer privacy while handling massive volumes of sensitive data across the globe. eBay moved from #2 overall last year to #1 this year, followed by Verizon, the U.S. Postal Service, WebMD and IBM. American Express had been named #1 four years in a row before eBay took over the top spot in 2009. (More …)
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
eBay Recognized As Most Trusted Company for Privacy
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Yahoo! Adds eBay Application to New Homepage Test
Yahoo! has introduced an eBay application to the “My Applications” dashboard area of the new yahoo.com homepage they’ve been testing since September. Yahoo! began user testing with a random fraction of their user-base in four different countries: U.S.A., United Kingdom, France and India to see what folks would want most out of a next generation Yahoo! homepage.
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
eBay to Launch AdCommerce program for Sellers
Advertising on eBay has come a long way since the first AOL deal 9 years ago. To prove it, later this Fall, eBay will roll out a Beta program for sellers in Germany and the US that will give them another way to increase visibility in the online marketplace. eBay AdCommerce is the latest advertisting optimization tool from VP Matt Ackley’s Internet Marketing team and will allow sellers to take advantage of the 4 billion keywords in eBay’s database.
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
No Phishing Allowed
eBay, PayPal and Google have partnered together to ensure that Google’s Gmail (https://mail.google.com) service will automatically detect PayPal and eBay phishing e-mails and prevent them from reaching your Gmail inbox.“We’re very excited that Google has taken this step and is working with us to help protect your online safety,” said Michael Barrett, the chief information security officer for PayPal, in his post to the PayPal blog. “From now on, if you have a Gmail e-mail address, you will see a dramatic reduction in the amount of e-mails which purport to come from PayPal and eBay, but which aren’t in fact from us.”
