question of the week OTTAWA – Canadians might love their Blackberries, their eBay shopping and their PVRs, but businesses in this country haven’t embraced the new digital world as much as other competitive nations. Read more on Coast Reporter

Holiday shopping, PayPal help eBay 4Q profit rise EBay Inc. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter earnings rose as its PayPal payments business grew and holiday shoppers gravitated to its online auctions and “Buy It Now” offerings. The company also logged a large gain from the November sale of its Skype telecommunications business. Read more on AP via Yahoo! News

Is this your first business venture – if so you must be excited just at the fact of being your own boss with no 9 to 5 job – that is if your Ebay business is going to demand your full time attention to keep the pennies coming in? No doubt you will have questions due to you being in the infancy stage of running your own Ebay business. Your best approach at this time is to study behind the scenes. [...]