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Topic: eBay Inc.

  
CUSTOMER SERVICE   |  1 comment

Wealth Creation, 21st-Century Style

BY Shoshana Zuboff
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:48 AM

Glimpses of the building blocks of wealth creation, 21st-century style.READ»

CRM   |  1 comment

LinkedIn Meets iTunes

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 24, 2008 at 7:11 PM

A few months ago I did a piece for FastCompany.com called LinkedIn Meets eBay, about a web startup that allowed salespeople to sell each other their contacts. If the sales world already had its eBay, it now has its iTunes: a place ...READ»

GUEST HOST: KEITH YAMASHITA   |  Comment

Systems Thinking: The Product


Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 20, 2004 at 11:41 AM

Building on my previous entry... In some cases, companies are such good systems thinkers that what they offer up to their customers is, in fact, a beautfully constructed system -- their product is the system they've built. eBay is ...READ»

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First Thoughts

BY Kenneth Yee
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Jan 27, 2008 at 11:08 PM

This is my first post to this blog. I have been a seller on eBay for 8 years. Through the years, eBay has had many growing pains. I am glad that I am able to share in its benefits now that it is a more robust product.READ»

GUEST HOST: KEITH YAMASHITA   |  Comment

Systems Thinking: The Product


Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 20, 2004 at 11:41 AM

Building on my previous entry... In some cases, companies are such good systems thinkers that what they offer up to their customers is, in fact, a beautfully constructed system -- their product is the system they've built. eBay is ...READ»

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IM Here to Help

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Aug 15, 2003 at 2:49 PM

On Tuesday, Lorna Borenstein, vice president and general manager of eBay Inc., talked with conference goers at eTail 2003 East. One highlight of the presentation indicated that eBay has experienced a 135% return on investing in ...READ»

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CROWDSOURCING   |  Comment

Telefonica Appoints Customers as Heads of Marketing, Tech Support, and Customer Service

BY Kate Rockwood
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Oct 5, 2009 at 4:50 PM

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»

SALES + MARKETING   |  2 comments

Our Town, Now Your Town

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Dec 18, 2003 at 1:51 PM

Residents of Tortilla Flat, a small town in Arizona, are trying to sell the town -- on eBay. Writing in TechDirt, Mike expresses that listing items on eBay has moved beyond simple commerce -- and into the realm of PR. "Big or weird ...READ»

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Same Old Challenges in the New Telecom Era

BY Chris Trimble
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM

No competitor, whether born in the Internet boom or several decades earlier, will succeed without recognizing that revolutions in strategy call for bold steps in organizational design.READ»

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EBAY   |  6 comments

Skype Founders Sue eBay for $75 Million Per Day

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Sep 16, 2009 at 6:36 PM

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»

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Ebay's Fair-Trade MarketPlace

BY Anya Kamenetz
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Sep 17, 2008 at 1:31 AM

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»

BUYITNOW   |  Comment

EBay Cuts 1600 Jobs

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Oct 6, 2008 at 9:47 PM

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»

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Business Fights Back: eBay Learns to Trust Again

BY George Anders
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:32 AM

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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Skype Set to Go Public

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Apr 15, 2009 at 10:10 AM

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»

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44. From Pawn to King


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 10:54 AM

Previous | Next 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 41-store ...READ»

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44. From Pawn to King


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Feb 18, 2009 at 2:02 PM

Previous | Next 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»

COLLECTIBLES   |  Comment

Online Shopping

BY Chuck Manchester
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 10, 2008 at 6:28 PM

   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»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  9 comments

Disruptors Welcome

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:19 AM

In the old days, eBay was ambivalent about independent software developers and charged them fees, based on the number of people who used their programs. Now, eBay's Disruptive Innovation team seeks out developers who can make it easier for consumers to use eBay -- and they're getting paid for their worth.READ»

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Tech Watch: Ebay Bans Ivory Sales; Hulu Now on Boxee; Motorola Takes on Nokia

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Oct 23, 2008 at 12:45 PM

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»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Face Time With Meg Whitman

BY Charles Fishman
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:26 AM

The CEO of eBay runs one of the few dotcoms that's still left standing. What will be the opening bid for her words of wisdom?READ»

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The eBay Experience

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Apr 30, 2004 at 6:57 PM

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»

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP   |  23 comments

The Live Strong Phenom


Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 11, 2004 at 6:49 PM

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»

EBAY   |  Comment

Why the Ebay Strike shouldn’t have happened!

BY Chadwick Conte
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 12:10 PM

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»

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT   |  1 comment

Keeping Customers, Creatively

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Jun 24, 2005 at 1:42 PM

Concerned about losing your customers? Maybe you need to find a new way to work with people and teams who've grown beyond your existing products and services. Ebay has done just that. Rather than lose experience, high-volume vendors ...READ»

GLOBALIZATION   |  4 comments

It's an eBay World After All

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100
Thu Jun 30, 2005 at 5:00 PM

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»

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