Behind the Scenes – Archives
StubHub Acquires Ticket Technology
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Earlier today, StubHub announced that it is acquiring Ticket Technology, a leading point-of-sale (POS) software service provider for ticket sellers, to strengthen the selling platform for its StubHub business unit. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Based in Overland Park, Kansas, Ticket Technology’s software tools provide integration and automation to professional ticket sellers. The acquisition will [...]
Yahoo! Adds eBay Application to New Homepage Test
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Yahoo! has introduced an eBay application to the “My Applications” dashboard area of the new yahoo.com homepage they’ve been testing since September. Yahoo! began user testing with a random fraction of their user-base in four different countries: U.S.A., United Kingdom, France and India to see what folks would want most out of a next generation [...]
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 [...]
eBay Top Seller Webinar: Focusing On Success
Monday, November 17th, 2008
As most of you know, I was busy between both San Jose campuses last Thursday attending Professor Yunus’ speech and meeting million feedback achiever, Jack Sheng. As a result, I was unable to participate in the eBay Top Seller Webinar that also took place on Thursday. I managed to get the archived version of the [...]
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Nobel Laureate Celebrates MicroPlace One Year Anniversary
Monday, November 17th, 2008
I was lucky enough to attend an invitation-only event for the investors of MicroPlace last week as they celebrated their first year anniversary. MicroPlace was created to help alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world’s working poor. Learn more about microfinance and MicroPlace here.
To help celebrate the occasion, Nobel [...]
Congratulations to Jack Sheng!
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
As of today, the green shooting star above will only look familiar to a few individuals around the world… it represents a Feedback score of 500,000. The “Sweating Star” (as I like to call it) on the right is familiar to only one person, Jack Sheng, as it represents a Feedback score of 1,000,000 (something [...]
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 [...]
Stand Up and Be Counted
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Today is an incredibly historic day for the American people. I for one have never been more excited to watch the news than I am right now. Coverage begins at 4pm PT and will go well into the night. Bloggers will be getting blisters and the poor fail whale over on Twitter will have been [...]
Skype Enables Voter Drive in Silicon Valley
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
I wanted to share a pretty cool little video that I saw over on the Skype blog this morning showing how one local campaign HQ is using Skype to “Get Out The Vote”:
I’m leaving in 15 minutes to cast my vote. Exciting times indeed!
Cheers,
RBH
