eBay To Ban Outside Checkout Services By June 2011
In an interesting twist of events, eBay announced last week that third-party checkout solutions will no longer be supported on eBay after June 30, 2011. eBay says that other checkout solutions (besides PayPal) are only used less than 10 percent of the time on eBay.com. UPDATE: It’s come to out notice that eBay never offered Google Checkout as a payments service on its platform. The
RadioTime Buys Successful iPhone App TuneIn Radio, Hires Its Creator
RadioTime, a Dallas, Texas-based provider of applications for finding and listening to online radio stations, has acquired the TuneIn Radio iPhone app, one of the best-selling and highest rated Internet radio applications for iOS devices.
Terms of the acquisitions have not been disclosed, but I’m told the deal was part cash, part equity. The developer of the TuneIn Radio app, Ben Alexander,
Startup Incubator TechStars Invades New York City
When it comes to seed investing, New York City is becoming a hotbed. And now TechStars, the incubator that began in Boulder. Colorado and has spawned nearly 40 startups, is coming to New York. This will be the fourth (and supposedly last) city TechStars expands to, according to CEO David Cohen (the other two are