In a move to protect elephants, Ebay bans selling items containing ivory on its site; Hulu comes to Boxee; and Motorola launches luxury phone Aura to take on Nokia's Vertu.READ»
The Omidyar Network was founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife to help "more people discover their own power to make good things happen." For the most part, the online workspace for the network -- once closed but now ...READ»
Wherever you are, whatever language you speak, you can use eBay -- thanks to the Internet trading powerhouse's relentless expansion over the last year. EBay says it will increase its share in South Korean online marketplace, Internet ...READ»
I will be doing all my holiday shopping online this year. I have done the majority of my shopping online in the past few years, but this year I have decided it will all be this way. Some of the sites I have used are Amazon.com, ...READ»
Biz touches on eBay's acquisition of a minority interest in Craig's List, joking about the effect -- and impact -- of the service's founder's "checks and balances."
Call me a Cassandra, but today's 25% purchase of ...READ»
The world's most successful Internet company is based on two pillars of growth: the global spread of Internet-style capitalism and confidence in the basic goodness of the people who do business on the site. Both ideas came under attack on September 11.READ»
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Transforming a business is never easy, so imagine making the leap from Las Vegas pawnshop to software company. Steve Mack took over his family's fourth-generation business in 1981 and built it into a ...READ»
According to the Associated Press, eBay plans to jettison Skype from its corporate holdings by holding an initial public offering for the company in the first half of 2010. Ebay paid $2.6 billion for Skype in 2005, confusing analysts ...READ»
A new partnership between eBay and an unusual social enterprise aims to give the world's artisans access to a bigger market -- and a fair share of the revenue.READ»
By now you've probably seen more than your fair share of yellow rubbery Live Strong bracelets adorning the wrists of everyone from neighbors to presidential candidates. As you probably know, they're $1 totems being sold in a joint ...READ»
The ever-litigious founders of Skype, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, are suing former majority stakeholder eBay at a rate of over $75 million per day for what they say is theft of intellectual property. The companies that are ...READ»
Andre Haddad is the vice president of user experience and design for eBay. Previously, he worked as eBay's managing director for France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. At GEL, he talked about eBay's true origin, the ...READ»
Companies have crowdsourced everything from ad campaigns to package design, usually through contests. But Spanish telecom giant Telefonica is putting a new degree of trust in users, handing over the marketing, technical support, and ...READ»
EBay [EBAY] is shaking things up in its corporate offices after making a series of changes to its site to keep usership high. The auction site announced today that as a result of this re-strategizing, it will be cutting 1600 jobs, ...READ»
EBay purchased online apartment rental service Rent.com today for approximately $385 million in stock and $30 million in cash. The news reports say this symbolizes eBay's continued move into services. Buying a stake in craigslist, I ...READ»
As I described in the magazine recently, eBay is pursuing a new strategy, catering to buyers instead of sellers. It's the biggest and most urgent change to the site in years.
Although the number of listings and gross merchandise ...READ»
There comes a single, unified network. One that carries data, voice, and video all over the same wires. The alphabet soup of telecom technologies -- POTS, SONET, ATM -- will vanish. It will be all Internet, all of the time. The ...READ»
Brand yourself, not Ebay! In the beginning Ebay was used by the average person looking to get rid of that item that has been lingering around the house for a while. A nice fit, if you think about it. Ebay supplied a great tool ...READ»
David Ogilvy's old saw, "I know that half my advertising works, I just don't know which half," has become less of a joke these days, with CMOs desperate to show CEOs that their multimillion-dollar ad budgets actually produce results. ...READ»
Serial entrepreneur Evan Sohn believes that selling is a broken trade. He’s here to fix it, and he’s attempting to do it with an intuitive venture that is an experiment in sales all its own.READ»
On Tuesday I went to the DigitalLife press preview. Besides all the cool gadgets and tech toys, there was something that caught my eye. A table was setup by eBay to promote their Rethink Initiative. The amount of waste being ...READ»
If the volume of business on eBay is any indication, then the old saw "one man's trash is another man's treasure" seems to have global resonance. Among the many fascinating tidbits in last night's CNBC special on the company was this ...READ»
