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eBay reports higher revenue as Paypal hits new records.

Record growth, particularly in PayPal, and in eBay marketplaces outside the US has boosted eBay’s latest quarterly results.
The San Jose California headquartered company released its latest, June quarter financial results in the US overnight, and reported revenues up 6% compared to the same quarter in 2009.
Excluding Skype, which has since been sold, the results were even

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Malaysian ecommerce gets boost with Paypal now accepted at local eBay marketplace

A Malaysian satay hawker

In Australia, online transactions from Malaysia are still black-listed by many payment gateway providers because of historically high levels of fraud.

But there is little doubt that within Malaysia, ecommerce and online shopping are both growing rapidly, albeit from a small base.

Major international ecommerce players are starting to take note.

Last month, for

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Australian government canvasses options for regulating online ticket selling

A license for selling tickets online is one of the various regulatory options being canvassed in a new discussion paper released by the Australian government.
Produced by an expert panel advising the Minister for Consumer Affairs, Dr Criag Emerson, MP, the paper is the first step in a public consultation process that may lead to new federal

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PayPal no longer compulsory at eBay.com.au

From July 14th PayPal will no longer be compulsory at eBay.com.au.  Instead, sellers will have to offer one of three, eBay-approved, ‘safer payment methods’ – PayPal, Paymate or a merchant credit-card account.

eBay Australia announced the changes to its payments policies today (i.e. 13th May 2010), at the same time as it announced  a new, free, local

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New Online Business Index reveals optimism and plans for more staff amongst eBay’s bigger sellers

Deborah Sharkey, MD, eBay Australia & NZ

Businesses selling on eBay Australia are optimistic about the year ahead, with more than 20% very optimistic about future business conditions. In fact nearly 38% expect to put on more staff over the next twelve months.

Thats good news, of course, but no-one should expect that it’ll make a

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