EBay Expands to Indonesia

EBay, Inc has expanded their networks to Indonesia by creating a joint-venture company called PT MetraPlasa with Telkom, biggest telecommunication company in Indonesia. Telkom will hold 60% of the share, while EBay will have 40% and they have an option to increase the share later.

Jay Lee, Senior Vice President eBay Asia Pacific said that 17% of EBay transactions were made from Indonesia and that's quite a big number. They saw this opportunity and with  Telkom's marketshare, i think they made a very good choice.

Let's see what they can offer to Indonesian people about their new promotions.

Bye Bye Phishing

GMail has worked together with Paypal and EBay to make sure that email sent from those two web sites to GMail accounts are valid messages and not an attempt of phising. Here's some point from the GMail blog:

Now any email that claims to come from "paypal.com" or "ebay.com" (and their international versions) is authenticated by Gmail and -- here comes the important part -- rejected if it fails to verify as actually coming from PayPal or eBay. That's right: you won't even see the phishing message in your spam folder. Gmail just won't accept it at all. Conversely, if you get an message in Gmail where the "From" says "@paypal.com" or "@ebay.com," then you'll know it actually came from PayPal or eBay. It's email the way it should be.

It's said that they used DomainKeys and DKIM to verify each messages, so the reliability of this methods is based on those two. I just hoped they don't break too easy in the future resulting a false alarm