PayPal payments transactions reached $6.7 billion in the third quarter of 2005. PayPal consumers worldwide spent $842 per second during the quarter. […] [...]

Amazon has patented a system and method of encouraging customers to review purchased items. Google, Yahoo, MSN and ecommerce sites are presently using the newly patented method. […] [...]

The Federal Trade Commission has got the U.S. District Court to halt the illegal downloads of Enternet Media. The company offered free background music to blogs and deceived those who visited the blog sites into downloading a spyware. […] [...]

eBay has added a new service to its stores for the sellers to send RSS feeds to subscribers. Now the sellers will be able to send updates on products to customers. […] [...]

Microsoft plans to be one of the big players of online advertising market. Microsoft, through tageted MSN keywords, plans to be different from others like Google and Yahoo. […] [...]

Online advertising reached £490 million in U.K. and $5.6 billion in U.S. in the first half of 2005. The increase is 62% for U.K. and 26% for U.S. […] [...]

AOL Inc. is updating its privacy policy. According to the new policy, AOL will no longer share names and addresses with other companies. […] [...]

The Federal Trade Commission caught a web business for infecting user’s PCs with spyware and adware. A U.S district court ordered the defendants to stop infecting PCs. […] [...]

Amazon will partner with Sidestep, the online travel agency, to revamp the amazon travel store. Sidestep will host a site in Amazon’s travel store. […] [...]

Google Personalized Search has come out of Labs and is ready for “prime time”. […] [...]