In just a couple of weeks, eBay and PayPal will no longer be bound together at the hip, ending a 13-year corporate marriage. The plan was originally announced last year, and last… Read More
Amazon.com has almost pulled down all its Confederate flag merchandise from its site, following three other major U.S. retailers, including Walmart, Sears and eBay. The retailers are all banning merchandise in the aftermath… Read More
Alibaba is aiming to be an e-commerce powerhouse on a scale no one else can match. That was the message Alibaba’s Founder and executive chairman Jack Ma delivered today at The Economic Club of… Read More
eBay is working on a new shipping service that may rival Amazon Prime, and has plans for a new advertising service that will allow some sellers to elevate their listings among the masses.… Read More
Like collecting art and wish you had access to more of the world’s finest offerings? The Internet is here to make your dream come true. At least eBay is. The auction site,… Read More
—LivingSocial, the Washington, D.C.-based daily deals company, has appointed former eBay executive Lorrie Norrington to its board, where she will serve as an observer and senior advisor to its President and CEO Gautam… Read More
—Trulia Chief Economist Jed Kolko has left the company following its acquisition by Zillow last week. According to an internal email obtained by Inman News, Kolko said that Trulia will continue… Read More
A very small number of employees in eBay’s Seattle-area office have been impacted by a round of layoffs, aiming to eliminate 7 percent of the online retailer’s global workforce. The layoffs, which started… Read More
EBay confirmed it will be laying off about 7 percent of its workforce, or about 2,400 employees, in the next couple of months as it prepares to separate from PayPal.… Read More
EBay is mulling a significant round of layoffs that could result in thousands of job losses early next year. Sources told The Wall Street Journal the cuts are primarily expected to occur in… Read More
Not happy with the list price of that autographed sports jersey on Amazon? Enter an offer and press a button to start your negotiation. That’s the concept behind Amazon’s new “Make an… Read More
In the days to come we’ll find out precisely how many billions were spent over this critical shopping weekend, but for now, there’s some clear winners and losers. Best Buy’s slogan this weekend… Read More
New fitting room technology being tested at Nordstrom will make trying on clothes a surreal experience. The technology, which was developed by eBay, will include a touchscreen mirror that will track… Read More
Amazon kicked off Black Friday deals a full 28 days early in an attempt to grab a larger share of holiday spending this year. So far, the strategy appears to be working. “This… Read More
eBay is again scaling back its plans to offer same-day delivery, with the removal of its eBay Now app from the iOS App Store over the weekend. Until recently, eBay has been… Read More
The North Pole must be buzzing. Forecasts are calling for a meteoric rise in holiday spending this year, fueled by Americans, who are arguably more well off than they have been in five… Read More
Amazon and eBay are extending their returns policy this holiday to make shopping earlier more practical. In an updated policy, Amazon says purchased between Nov. 1 and Dec. 31 are eligible for return until Jan.… Read More
Alibaba, the Chinese Internet giant that raised a record $25 billion in a public offering two months ago, is scheduled to release its first earnings report tomorrow before the market opens.… Read More
“I wouldn’t call it a change in direction but a greater focus and clarity,” eBay CEO John Donahoe told Forbes on the day of its headline-making split with PayPal. “The nice… Read More
Marc Andreessen said he is stepping down from eBay’s board months after shareholder activisit Carl Icahn was seeking a similar change to the board. Now, the two exact things that Icahn was demanding in… Read More
eBay is doing it, so is HP. And just yesterday Symantec — a security software and storage company that was once led by Microsoft chairman John Thompson — announced plans… Read More
The world’s largest retailer is no longer fretting about people using their smartphones to search for better prices online when in their stores. “If people want to come in our stores and see… Read More
eBay shares are not getting a bump from Wall Street today, following Tuesday’s announcement that it is spinning off PayPal into a separate company. Shares of the San Jose-based company are trading lower… Read More
Shares of eBay jumped more than six percent on Tuesday as the online retailer and marketplace announced plans to spin off its PayPal payments business in 2015, a plan that was… Read More
You would have thought that new iPhones, the Apple Watch and an extensive mobile payments service would be enough to keep Wall Street happy. But even a private concert by U2, and… Read More
Peter Mansour, who led eBay’s Bellevue operation and served as the company’s vice president of shipping and marketing technologies, has been named president of InfoSpace, the Internet search business that’s… Read More
EBay has tasked Kevin Hurst with getting the word out that it’s aggressively hiring in Portland. As part of the announcement, Hurst, who was eBay’s former VP of mobile product, will become the… Read More
Will book sellers, bike shop owners and electronics stores use Amazon as its payment provider if they are already worried about it stealing their business? Earlier today, Amazon rolled out a new mobile payments service that… Read More
LivingSocial has finally announced who will be replacing co-founder Tim O’Shaughessy as CEO, seven months after he announced that he would be stepping down. The Washington, D.C.-based daily deals company… Read More
After running eBay’s Seattle-area office for nearly three years, Ken Moss has left the e-commerce’s satellite office to join Electronic Arts as its new chief technology officer. The announcement was… Read More