Events – Archives
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
eBay Innovation Demo Expo
Friday, October 24th, 2008
I attended my second eBay Innovation Demo Expo earlier this week. The event allows employees to share their innovative ideas for the future of eBay and commerce by building prototype applications and showing them off to their peers and eBay executives. This was the 4th semi-annual eBay Innovation Demo Expo and it was great [...]
eBay To Institute Global Ban on Ivory Sales
Monday, October 20th, 2008
One thing I have found fascinating over my first year here at eBay is the variety of topics covered in both email and in meetings. Beyond the typical marketing or PR planning meetings there are hundreds of different policies and rules in place regarding what can or cannot be sold in the marketplace. Each policy [...]
eBay Inc Reports Third Quarter 2008 Results
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
eBay reported third quarter 2008 earnings results a few minutes ago. Third quarter revenue was $2.12 Bilion (up $228 million from the same period in 2007). Net income on a GAAP basis was $492 million ($0.38 per diluted share), and non-GAAP net income was $592 million ($0.46 per diluted share).
“Overall, we are pleased with the [...]
