It was announced this morning that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. The announcement was made at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) taking place this week in Washington D.C. According to the announcement,...

There are so many different uses cases and payment methods coming! PayPal X platform: the open global payments platform for developers. The main offerings: Payment facilitation: pay anyone, receive from anyone Account management: identify users, permissions, accounts Information and reporting: No...

As you know, Skype is serious about giving small businesses the tools they need to succeed. As part of this commitment and in support of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, Skype today announced a public/private partnership with SCORE to help accelerate small business growth through access to b...

As you know, Skype is serious about giving small businesses the tools they need to succeed. As part of this commitment and in support of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, Skype today announced a public/private partnership with SCORE to help accelerate small business growth through access to b...

In partnership with eBay, GlobalGiving is giving developers the opportunity to show their creativity and talent in a way that has big social impact and major visibility through the GlobalGiving and eBay platforms using either GlobalGiving or eBay APIs—or both. The winning developer gets an all-...

The last couple of weeks have been busy in the world of Skype on mobile. We’ve announced our partnership with Verizon in the US to deliver free Skype-to-Skype calls in the US and internationally to its 91 million subscribers – a significant step. As part of our continual review of our mo...

At CES in January we announced partnerships with Panasonic and LG to bring Skype to some of their Internet-connected HDTVs. Many of you asked if we were working with other manufacturers to do the same, and so today we’re very happy to announce a third member of the club. All Samsung LED 7000 a...

eBay has teamed up with RecycleBank, the country’s premier recycling and loyalty program, to reward consumers for recycling and reusing what already exists in the world today. RecycleBank rewards people for positive green actions (currently the recycling of trash and electronics) and seeks t...

Russ Shaw is General Manager of our mobile business. As the year draws to a close, I thought I’d do two things - first, introduce myself to readers of our blog, and second, talk a little bit about our mobile strategy. Peter tells me there are quite a few of you (hundreds of thousands, in fact)...

Peace One Day aims to make free education materials available to every school on Earth, inspiring young people to act on Peace Day – the 21st December. As part of our partnership with Peace One Day, we’ve sponsored the creation of a lesson plan which promotes peaceful relationships thro...