Huge thanks to Perrine Crampton (@pcrampton) for putting together this recap of short form posts and tweets around yesterday’s eBay earnings call for Q1, 2012. What makes Storify really cool is that you can go through the slide show below and click on the links within each captured tweet – and even share right from the slides. At 206 slides, it’s a bit of a slog… but it’s still pretty neat to view:
eBay Inc. CEO, John Donahoe, spoke on CNBC earlier today in response to the company’s Q1, 2012 earnings. Here you go:
Updated 4/4/12
eBay Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of WHI Solutions and I’m excited to officially welcome the WHI team to eBay.
What does this mean for buyers?
We believe buyers can benefit from WHI’s world class catalog, which provides eBay with the foundation to expand our catalog from auto replacement parts to specialty equipment, racing performance and vintage parts to meet the needs of the automotive enthusiast.
What does this mean for sellers?
WHI makes it easier for sellers to list inventory, automatically populating listing fields including description, image and vehicle application data using WHI’s world class ecatalog, which has millions of SKUs.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Original post from 2/21/12
eBay Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WHI Solutions (WHI), a provider of software and digital catalog solutions for auto parts distributors and retailers.
With the innovative team and technology of WHI, eBay gains expanded selection and access to enhanced structured data which we believe will enable eBay Motors to improve parts selection and value for customers while enabling parts retailers, distributors, dealers, and manufacturers to reach more customers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
I’m a fairly stereotypical guy for the most part… I like my beer, my sports, and my action movies. Having said that, I’ve never been much of a gearhead and – in full disclosure – my wife is the one who has negotiated the price of both of my previously owned vehicles. From what I can tell, and I’ve been paying closer and closer attention to it lately, eBay Motors makes it pretty simple to find parts for cars – whether you’re a car enthusiast or not – and the integration of WHI seems to further emphasize that ease of use.
With WHI, eBay plans to expand its catalog – from auto replacement parts to specialty equipment – to meet the needs of the eBay customer. In addition to the catalog benefits for eBay Motors buyers, sellers will also enjoy a better experience with an easier way to list inventory, with automatically populating listing fields including description, image and vehicle application data using WHI’s catalog of millions of SKUs.
The plan is for WHI’s talent, technology and client base to be smoothly integrated into the eBay Motors ecosystem. WHI offices will remain in New York, New Jersey and Los Angeles at this time.
It was announced this morning that eBay has agreed to acquire Zong and Scott Thompson, President of PayPal, just posted to the PayPal Blog about the news…
Today we announced that eBay has agreed to acquire Zong for approximately $240 million. Zong is one of the leading providers of payments through mobile carrier billing, with connections with more than 250 mobile carriers in 45 countries. Upon closing of the transaction, Zong will eventually become part of PayPal.
PayPal has 100 million active accounts; millions of people who have already trusted us to provide their digital wallets. And Zong’s expertise in carrier billing means that it has the potential to reach the more than 4 billion people around the world who have mobile phones – including people who don’t have (or choose not to use) bank accounts or credit cards online. By combining Zong and PayPal, we believe we can offer more services to more customers, ultimately bringing even more value to how people pay and get paid.
eBay Inc. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Magento Inc., the creator of Magento, a leading open source ecommerce platform. The deal follows eBay’s acquisition of a minority stake in the company in 2010. Upon closing of the transaction, eBay will own 100% of the outstanding shares of Magento. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The transaction is expected to close in Q3 2011.
It was also announced that Magento will join X.Commerce, eBay’s newly created integrated open source platform group. Something I’m particularly interested in. According to today’s announcement, the group is focused on leveraging the company’s assets and partner technologies to build a strong, robust developer community as a resource for merchants and retailers of all sizes. More details will be shared with developers during the X.Commerce Innovate conference on Oct. 12-13 in San Francisco and I’d like to sit down with key members of the group to share more info here with Ink readers too. In the meantime, here is a video message to developers from John Donahoe, CEO, eBay Inc.
A video message to developers from eBay Inc. CEO, John Donahoe
About Magento
The Magento platform serves tens of thousands of merchants worldwide and is supported by a global community of solution partners and third-party developers. Magento is a feature-rich, open-source, enterprise-class commerce solution that offers merchants a high degree of flexibility and control over the user experience, catalog, content and functionality of their online store. Magento Go, the company’s hosted software-as-a-service solution, provides small and growing merchants with the tools to help them succeed online – from payments to inventory management. Magento is a Los Angeles-based company with more than 290 employees.
Updated 6/20/11
eBay Inc. has completed its previously announced acquisition of GSI Commerce, Inc. and it is my great pleasure to be one of the first people to officially and publicly welcome them on board.
The stockholders of GSI approved the adoption of the merger agreement with eBay at the special meeting of stockholders held this past Friday and the merger became effective later that day.
eBay acquired all of the outstanding shares of GSI’s stock for $29.25 per share in cash, or total consideration of approximately $2.4 billion. GSI Commerce will operate as a separate business unit led by Chris Saridakis as its newly appointed president who will report directly to eBay CEO and President, John Donahoe.
Be sure to add the GSI Commerce blog to your blog roll (if you haven’t done so already) and follow along on Twitter @GSICommerce.
I was fortunate enough to sit in on my second eBay Inc. analyst day today (although anyone with a computer monitor and an Internet connection could have done so too by accessing the live webcast). The company projected double-digit annual revenue and earnings growth for 2011-2013, with revenues expected to reach at least $13 billion in 2013 compared to approximately $9 billion in 2010.
“New rules of retail are being written today,” said eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe. “Online and offline commerce are changing and converging, and technology is dramatically influencing how consumers connect, shop and pay. We are at the forefront of shopping innovation. We believe we have core businesses, platforms and assets that strongly position us to compete, win and lead on a global scale. We are confident that we will lead the next generation of commerce.”
I’ve been following Dominic Jones, the man behind IR Web Report, for a little over two years now – coincidentally, right around the time I started live-tweeting our eBay quarterly earnings calls from my desk. Dominic has followed our IR / social media activities over that time too and even included us in a round-up back in August: “Investor relations on Twitter: 10 great examples”. The excerpt…
The original earnings live-tweeter, eBay continues to be a standard setter. It’s one of the few to incorporate StockTwits into its distribution. Its disclaimer at the start of earnings call live-tweeting sessions, and use of an unique hashtag for each call, are best practices. But too many tweets for my liking, but no one else complains so I’m wrong. Could say more but Richard’s already gotten a lot of ink here. He’s posted a good piece about his set-up and process.
As some of you already know, I worked with our legal team to create guidelines and best practices for corporate disclosure in both short and long-form social media. It resulted in pre-session disclosure tweets; hashtag creation to identify specific quarters; and the use of StockTwits to track the IR discussion around a specific earnings’ call.
eBay Inc. today reported that revenue for the fiscal third quarter ended September 30, 2010, increased 1% to $2.2 billion, or up 10% excluding Skype, compared to the same period of 2009. The company recorded Q3 net income on a GAAP basis of $431.9 million, or $0.33 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income of $530.6 million, or $0.40 per diluted share, representing a 14% increase excluding Skype, compared to the same period of 2009. (More …)
eBay (NYSE: EBAY) will present its third quarter earnings results tomorrow, October 20, 2010, after the market closes. We will be live-tweeting and including links to the news release, financials, and other information as they become available on Twitter/StockTwits ($EBAY) via @ebayinkblog.
Search the hashtag #eBayQ310 for all eBay earnings’ related information tomorrow.
