eBay has revamped ahead of Christmas holiday shopping. Not only does the website have a Christmassy feel now and a counter to countdown to Christmas Day added to its logo, the changes are more than visual. It has also changed feature-wise and technologically. The search engine is one of the features that has undergone a […]

My friend, Ken, told me that he has folded his business. I remember when he was starting out and how enthusiastic he was with the entire idea of being his own boss. I suggested that he runs his business online first but he was adamant to have a physical store. He told me that his […]

PayPal has apologised for its worldwide service outage on Friday. Its Chief Technology Officer blamed it on hardware failure in a data centre and failure to deploy backup as quickly as possible. There were two stretches of outages that morning. Users around the world were affected; receiving error messages on the PayPal website and suffered […]

One of the reasons that my friends keep offering me new business proposals is because they think I have a lot of time on my hands, since I work for myself. Last night, an old friend asked me if I would like to join him in a “coupon” business. He thought that there isn’t such […]

Houston rapper, William James Dennis, or more popularly known as Willie D or “Geto Boys” fame, has been sent to federal prison for wire fraud. Willie D, 44, was said to have used eBay to sell iPhones that he didn’t own to foreign buyers, receiving payment and then blaming the postal service or courier companies […]

Bank Negara Malaysia (Central Bank of Malaysia) has slammed the brakes on property speculation. From today onwards, property buyers who are buying their third property and beyond will have to come up with minimum 30% of the value of the property of their own money. Buyers of the first and second properties are not affected […]

A friend, an organic enthusiast, told me that she doesn’t use chemicals at home and when her son was infested with head lice, she was stumped. She had no idea if there is any head lice treatment that doesn’t use chemicals. Well, I too had no idea until I came across a company that offers […]