GLG News by eBay Inc. Experts

eBay's is the world's largest online auction site as well all know. But never has it been so in danger of sinking, becoming a dot.com tragedy for the Web 2.0 generation. Are highly publicized changes it's making, and the overtures to bigger/big businesses, good for eBay in the long run?

Some things will be cloud based, MSFT, GOOG and AMZN are all betting on it.  for middle market companies having computing in the cloud may make sense. But it comes with risk

Revolution Money vies to win share away from the card payment network and money transfer establishment. It intends to compete as an open network, with lower base merchant acceptance fees, merchant-sponsored pos cardholder incentives, better fraud prophylactics and a money transfer feature. Reasonable...

As consumers cut travel and look locally for leisure pursuits, the hospitality industry has to adjust its marketing and offer specials for more local targeted audiences.  With increasing capacities for both hotel rooms and food and beverage establishments, room nights and dining room tables...

There’s little not to like in MasterCard’s evolving top and bottom line growth story, a story they could well – indeed should, beat, if! they can contain regulatory threats

MasterCard’s  revamped top and bottom line growth forecasts are eminently achievable, assuming it can contain or better yet roll back regulatory restrictions.

The card payment networks have been gradually stepping up their game as commercial enterprises and the markets have come to recognize the global payment networks’ immense intrinsic operating leverage, pricing power, growth prospects, and defensibility, and therefore value.  However neither MasterCard...

The acquisition of 50% of Eufiserv’s processor reminds that notwithstanding LBO distractions, First Data remains the most consequential payment processor and leading consolidator in Europe, and a potential threat to MasterCard’s and Visa EU’s processing businesses. First Data’s challenge is to simultaneously...

Discover is soldiering away on its path to merchant acceptance parity with MasterCard and Visa in the US. Closing the acceptance gap will produce greater cardholder spend and richer interchange, thereby enriching Discover’s value proposition for third-party issuers, which in turn will enhance the value...

eBay's battle with Craigslist is a great example of a PR challenge eBay faces. eBay constantly mishandles PR. eBay must wake up to this fact and hire a proven PR guru.