Here’s a quick rundown of news you may have missed last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
Monday
Last we checked, weren’t eBay and Yahoo teaming up to join forces against their common rival Google? Now, it’s eBay and Google that have a new ad alliance.
Google Checkout, of course, is seen by many analysts as a direct competitor of the PayPal payment service, a huge cash cow for online auction giant eBay.
But that didn’t stop the two companies from announcing that Google will place text ads on eBay’s …

They are calling him the million dollar man. Jason Calacanis recently revealed in his blog that he is on track to earn a million dollars from AdSense over the year ahead.
And if that number doesn’t wake you up and have you sitting on the edge of your seat, consider for a moment that he reached this level in less than a year. His company only started using AdSense in September 2004.