As most of you know I’ve been battling a rather nasty stomach bug for over a month now. It has disrupted my schedule and seen me in and out of the eBay office vs doctor’s office for the past 4 weeks. Yesterday was unfortunately no exception. On a day when PayPal held a Platform Preview and became the first and only global payments platform open to third-party developers and a day in which John Donahoe joined Fortune’s editor at large, Adam Lashinsky, on stage at FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH 2009 down in Pasadena, I found myself stuck getting yet more tests and sadly had to miss both. (More …)
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Friday, July 24th, 2009
eBay CEO John Donahoe Speaks at FORTUNE Brainstorm: TECH 2009
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FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Consumer Electronics Go Big on Black Friday
Even though I waited until “Cyber Monday” to make my first online purchase of the holiday shopping season (and plan to have all done over this coming weekend), Black Friday consumers, particularly those interested in consumer electronics, were online in full force. The most searched for product on eBay across all categories was the Nintendo Wii console with 3,171 sold on Black Friday (Wii Fit was the second highest with 1,059 sold on the site). On Shopping.com a GPS sold every 9 minutes and an MP3 player every 11.According to PayPal, there were 34% more transactions than 2007 and there was a 26% increase in online payment volume on Black Friday. (More …)
