EBay Inc., owner of the PayPal online payment service, banned customers from using a rival product from Google Inc. when trading goods online.
Google Checkout is listed among 39 online payment services that aren’t permitted on EBay, the San Jose, California-based company’s Web site shows today. EBay is still testing Google’s software, spokeswoman Catherine England said.
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Search engine Google is expected to launch an online payment service today that will undercut the charges of established providers such as Ebay’s PayPal in enabling transactions over the web.
Google Checkout will speed the purchase process for consumers and make it easier for advertisers to monitor and complete sales.

The Irish version of eBay, the auction website, is to add Skype voice-calling features onto its website next month in a move the company said would make it easier for buyers and sellers to communicate with each other.
The new service lets sellers include free voice calls over the internet and instant messaging to their listings. [...]

Ebay will next week take the first step towards integrating Skype into its e-commerce sites, as it attempts to prove the theory behind its controversial agreement to buy the internet voice service, says the Financial Times. The online auction company justified the deal, worth up to $4.1 billion, partly on the grounds that it would [...]

eBay Inc. will unveil a keyword advertising system for eBay sellers to promote auctions on other Web sites. Michael van Swaaij, eBay’s chief strategy officer, who confirmed this over the weekend spoke of plans to allow eBay’s members and auctioneers to run contextual ads on other Web sites in exchange for a cut of the [...]