eBay Inc. announced earnings for Q4 and full year ended December 31, 2009. Fourth-quarter revenue was $2.4 billion, up 16% from the same period last year. This includes the $112 million in revenue from Skype during the period that we still fully owned it. The year-over-year increase was attributed p...

The following was posted to the eBay Announcement Board earlier this afternoon. I wanted to share with Ink readers. Will share more as I get it. Cheers, RBH The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a consumer alert about Alli, a weight loss drug currently found on multiple websites and sear...

eBay indicated in a press release earlier today that the number of items bought via eBay mobile apps were triple last year’s holiday volume and that eBay buyers and sellers are generating more than half a billion dollars of transactions via mobile in 2009. Nearly 6 million people have eBay on ...

We’ve been lucky to have a guest visitor join us this week directly from the North Pole. Okay, not really the North Pole, but it’s Julie Haddon who not only was one of the leads for eBay’s Holiday Campaign, but is also one of our Social Media gurus, who will talk about the latest craze that i...

Find out more at the Phone Box Experiment website. Rob Cavazos is Skype’s newest recruit and will be living out by a phone box somewhere in the south of Spain for as long as he can take it. Inspired by the famous Mojave phone booth, the ‘loneliest phone box in the world’, we&rsquo...

eBay released more figures today regarding transactions made on the online marketplace over the Black Friday / Cyber Monday shopping period. The number of transactions on Cyber Monday increased by approximately 35% over Black Friday with each day yielding more than 1 million transactions. Communitie...

According to the Climate Counts Blog, the biggest jump in their third annual Corporate Climate Scores was by eBay. With a jump of 48 points to 53 (yes, I realize that this means eBay was pretty low this time last year), eBay stands out among a list of 90 well-known consumer companies. For the secon...

Okay, it’s not exactly Las Vegas but it certainly does have it’s own “What happens here…” moniker in some respects. Having only visited a handful of times, Washington D.C. still feels like a world unto its own and, thanks to the eBay Government Relations team, you have ...

While I was attending the PayPal X conference in SF last week, eBay enjoyed a fairly significant achievement over in Europe. Specifically, 14 EU data protection authorities approved eBay’s privacy standards and procedures. In a nutshell, as of last Thursday, Luxembourg’s National Data Protecti...

We’re coming to the end of Day 1 of PayPal X Innovate 09 so before I settle in for the afternoon keynote by Tim O’Reilly, I wanted to share the list of companies that today all announced new apps built with PayPal X. AERS, Carlson, FIS, FundRazr, MedPayOnline, Payvment, Playspan, ShopSav...