Posts Tagged ‘paypal’
The MightyLight: One Employee / One Million Lights
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I’ve been following a story with great interest on the iWeb (eBay’s worldwide intranet for employees) regarding Anna Sidana, director of Financial Products at PayPal, and a truly remarkable journey she embarked upon 5 years ago to bring light to families that live without electricity around the world. Her inspiration came from a school that [...]
2008 Most Trusted Companies for Privacy Award: eBay is #1 Internet Company; #2 Overall
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Privacy and information management research firm Ponemon Institute along with Internet privacy leader TRUSTe, have announced the results of their fifth annual survey of Most Trusted Companies for Privacy** and eBay is ranked second overall, behind only American Express (#1 for the fourth year in a row) and ranked first among Internet companies. The study [...]
Consumer Electronics Go Big on Black Friday
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
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 [...]
eBay “Lays Down the Law” at 4th Annual Training Event
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to give you a quick look into a very interesting event that I attended this past Tuesday, November 18: eBay’s fourth annual, one-day training event for law enforcement officials. Over 100 federal, state and local U.S. law enforcement officers from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, U.S Postal Service, the [...]
PayPal Thinks Global, Gets Local…
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Philipp Justus, senior vice president of global markets for PayPal announced the launch of fully localized sites in Mexico, Hong Kong and Singapore, on the PayPal blog earlier today. This extends PayPal’s online payments service to the more than 120 million residents of these three countries.
We now display content on our sites in nine new [...]
PayPal Experiences Link Bug… and Blogs about it.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Scott Guilfoyle, PayPal’s senior vice president of platform services, is reporting a pretty significant but seemingly easily fixable bug on the PayPal blog this afternoon.
“Early this morning, we made a change to our site that caused some links to PayPal from Web sites such as eBay, merchant sites, blogs, forums, and others to be [...]
The Week that Was
Friday, November 7th, 2008
A lot can happen in 5 days. Tuesday was as big as they come (regardless of your political viewpoint) and the groundswell of emotion seen around the world as a result of it is pretty incredible.
I also came on the blog, firmly planted a stake in the ground regarding eBay Ink, and then seemingly [...]
Introducing Rich LaMagna - eBay Online Safety Advisor
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I wanted to take a moment on Ink to introduce you to another member of the eBay team. Rich LaMagna is eBay’s Online Safety Advisor and I managed to spend a few minutes with him earlier this week to talk about what he hopes to accomplish here.
Rich has an interesting role for the [...]
eBay Previews Holiday Shopping Deals
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
eBay announced today that it is introducing a number of holiday deals starting next week that are intended to offer the best prices on the gifts people want most.
Beginning November 3rd, and running for 45 days, eBay will be running a Daily Deal promotion. Each day a different product - from categories including electronics, [...]
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.
