Privacy and Security – 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 [...]
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 [...]
Introducing Rich LaMagna - eBay Online Safety Advisor
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I wanted to take a moment on Ink to introduce you to another member of the eBay team. Rich LaMagna is eBay’s Online Safety Advisor and I managed to spend a few minutes with him earlier this week to talk about what he hopes to accomplish here.
Rich has an interesting role for the [...]
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 [...]
PayPal Discusses Online Safety Heading into Holiday Season
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
Michael Barrett, the chief information security officer for PayPal, has a post over on the PayPal blog in which he gives results of a new survey focused on online consumer safety. In his post, he also unveils a new microsite aimed at providing tips and tricks for online safety.
eBay Inc. adds Bill Me Later to Portfolio
Monday, October 6th, 2008
In a move that helps extend eBay Inc.’s leadership in online payments, the company announced that it will acquire Bill Me Later, a leading provider in the industry, for approximately $820 million in cash and $125 million in outstanding options. Subject to various closing conditions, the deal is expected to be completed by the end [...]
“Online selling is so addictive, it leads to Internet crime…”
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
… At least that’s what the National Retail Federation (NRF) would have you believe.
There are some pointed evaluations being made this afternoon regarding three bills currently being reviewed today by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime, terrorism, and homeland security. First, an interesting blog post by New York Times’ Brad Stone was followed [...]
Best Match Resolution
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
As some people had pointed out here on Ink and on other message boards and blogs, there was a break-down in Best Match over the weekend that directly effected some sellers over the past few days. The problem has since been addressed and fixed but it doesn’t take away from the fact that a number [...]
eBay Receives 2007 National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
eBay is one of two companies (the other being Skunk Works, a division of Lockheed Martin) receiving the nation’s highest honor for technological and scientific achievement. US Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez joined President George W. Bush last week to announce the 2007 laureates for the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.
