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PayPal Discusses Online Safety Heading into Holiday Season
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Michael Barrett, the chief information security officer for PayPal, has a post over on the PayPal blog in which he gives results of a new survey focused on online consumer safety. In his post, he also unveils a new microsite aimed at providing tips and tricks for online safety.
Introducing eBay Ink News
Monday, October 6th, 2008
All,
To make sure that eBay Ink readers, analysts, media and bloggers have the information they need in quick fashion, I am pleased to launch eBay Ink News. The goal of the site is to include all press releases, presentations, powerpoints, videos, etc. related to company news as it happens.
Today, you’ll see that you can access [...]
eBay Inc. adds Bill Me Later to Portfolio
Monday, October 6th, 2008
In a move that helps extend eBay Inc.’s leadership in online payments, the company announced that it will acquire Bill Me Later, a leading provider in the industry, for approximately $820 million in cash and $125 million in outstanding options. Subject to various closing conditions, the deal is expected to be completed by the end [...]
eBay goes to Washington
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
eBay invited three sellers to join CEO John Donahoe at the award ceremony. (F: L to R): Stacie Sefton, Jennifer Canty, John Donahoe, and Jack Sheng
As reported on Ink earlier this month, eBay was the first Internet company to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation when it was awarded the honor [...]
Does eBay’s new Browser Highlighter bring us one step closer to true Skype integration?
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
eBay’s new Browser Highlighter went into public Beta in the US last night. The Browser Highlighter places “Compare on eBay” buttons on non-eBay pages where its users may be looking for products online. When clicked, the “Compare” buttons allow users to see live eBay listings without jumping between multiple sites. I also found it interesting [...]
Marc Andreessen Joins eBay Inc’s Board of Directors
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Marc Andreessen has joined eBay’s board of directors, effective immediately.
Andreessen is most noted for co-founding Opsware and Netscape, and served as AOL’s CTO immediately following its acquisition of Netscape. His current venture is Ning, a new consumer Internet company founded in 2004 that is focused on building a next-gen platform for social networking. Rather [...]
A Meeting of the minds: eBay, Microsoft, Google, IBM, HP… and me
Friday, September 26th, 2008
This coming Monday, September 29, eBay Research Labs will be hosting technology and research heads from Google, Microsoft, IBM, HP, SAP, Accenture and PARC for its second annual ResearchFest event.
eBay to Launch AdCommerce program for Sellers
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Advertising on eBay has come a long way since the first AOL deal 9 years ago. To prove it, later this Fall, eBay will roll out a Beta program for sellers in Germany and the US that will give them another way to increase visibility in the online marketplace. eBay AdCommerce is the latest advertisting [...]
eBay Launches Mobile App for iPhone and iPod Touch in Europe
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Back in June, I wrote about the eBay Mobile application being made available for US customers. In the 2 months it has been available in the US it has quickly become one of the more popular choices in its category in the iTunes App Store and averages thousands of downloads a day.
eBay announced today that [...]
Keep Your Finger on the “eBay Pulse”
Friday, September 12th, 2008
Earlier this morning there was a very brief post made by Dennis Goedegebuure to the announcement board that teased an all-new eBay Pulse.
I spend a lot of time commuting each day with Dennis. We live in the same neighborhood in SF and our wives share eerily similar body-clocks when it comes to expecting baby # [...]
