PayPal is being introduced as a way to pay in two important areas of Facebook: Facebook Ads and Facebook Credits. According to the PayPal Blog: Advertisers around the world will soon be able to pay for Facebook Ads with PayPal… PayPal will also become a payment option for Facebook’s vi...

The eBay Android is now available for free at the Android Market and can be downloaded by searching “eBay” from the Android Market on your handset. In addition to traditional type search, the eBay application – like most Android apps – comes enabled with speech-to-text voic...

All, I’m still answering specific questions through email and comments here on Ink but in the meantime, I wanted to share a little sneak peak into what is happening behind the scenes. In addition to our usual Customer Service call center and PR efforts around news like this, we have also esta...

Every time I think I’ve seen it all, the power of the individual, coming together with their fellow man/woman, comes face-to-face with my expectations and blows them out of the water. I received a very brief but powerful email overnight that contained two statistics I wanted to share with all...

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...

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After all the turkey, beer, stuffing, wine, pork, beer, mashed potatoes, wine, pumpkin pie and wine that I had on Thursday I can’t imagine heading to the mall in the middle of the night to try and find the latest deal. After hosting an even dozen family and friends it was all I could do to log...

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 ...

eBay Motors announced a pretty cool “first” earlier today. The leading online automotive marketplace now offers free vehicle history reports through an exclusive agreement with Experian’s AutoCheck. It’s a good deal for eBay Motors users and not just because it’s free. C...

The following video was taken during the media Q&A session at PayPal X Innovate 2009. President of PayPal, Scott Thompson, addresses the timing of this week’s news, what it means for the future and how mobility plays into the grand scheme of things. Cheers, RBH PayPal X Innovate 2009: ...