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Ebay partners with Yahoo

Ebay has signed an multi-year partnership agreement. Yahoo will sell advertising on EBay. Ebay will offer Paypal, its payment service, across Yahoo. Yahoo is the leading portal with the greatest share of global internet traffic. EBay dominates online classifeds market. EBay has also announced that it is establishing a competing service to Google’s adsense. According to notes from an EBay developers conference, the next version of Skype will include the ability to send and receive payments via PayPal.
Ebay and Yahoo both feel threatened by Google.

Google entering classifieds market and online payments

Google has also announced that it will establish its own payment service. The service has not been officially named, but is being nicknamed “GBuy”. It will be a competitor to Ebay’s Paypal. However, competition may not be the only objective of GBuy. GBuy will provide Google with additional information to improve the quality of searches. Google will be able to determine not only where people shop, but if they actually buy something.

The online space continues to develop. MySpace has introduced online job classifieds. They are focussed on internships, retail jobs and outdoor jobs which is consistent with their “young” demographic.

The pace of change has always been fast. I get the feeling that the pace of change is accelerating. Perhaps, the prediction that B2B Ecommerce will penetrate/change 90% of industries by 2010 will come true.