eBay Integrating Skype, PayPal; to Launch Online Advertising Service
Published May 6th, 2006
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eBay plans to integrate its Skype voice over IP service into the auction marketplace to facilitate communication between buyers and sellers, reports AuctionBytes.com, quoting CEO Meg Whitman speaking at Thursday’s eBay’s Analyst Day, the theme of which was “The Power of Threeâ€: eBay, PayPal and Skype. She also said eBay plans to enter the online advertising fray with a pay-per-lead service. Whitman said eBay would create new ecommerce markets and showed a prototype of a “pay-per-lead†enabled web page using Skype.
