Heather MacPhie is an Olympic freestyle skier, who competed in the Ladies’ Moguls in Vancouver this year. I invited her to write about her experience of the Olympics and of Skype. Watch out for the second post about her competition day in the coming weeks. One of my favorite things about the ...

Our mobile team are all headed to Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona next week, and have a little goodie for everyone in Barcelona – and in fact anywhere in Spain. If you’re in Spain, you’ll be able to get one session of WiFi access, on us, for up to 15 minutes, thanks to Skype Ac...

eBay today announced the dates and locations for its new program, eBay: On Location — a series of events aimed at helping eBay sellers accelerate their businesses on the platform. eBay: On Location, which kicks off March 19-20 in Atlanta, will bring small-business and part-time eBay sellers toge...

I’ll update this post with any new information and links as they become available. On Tuesday, Jan. 12 shortly before 5 p.m., a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. According to The Red Cross, about 3 million people were affected by the quake — one-third of ...

Skype demo in action at the Panasonic stand In the last 24 hours at CES, the media spotlight has been on us. We’ve seen incredible amounts of coverage from across the globe, including this report from the Washington Post, others from Bloomberg and the BBC, and some great video demos from Enga...

I’m excited that Josh Silverman has made it among the finalists for CEO of 2009 in the Crunchies awards. They’re hosted by GigaOm, TechCrunch and VentureBeat to recognise the best companies, products and people of the year. So if you like what Josh is doing and would like to show your su...

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...

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...

eBay Inc. announced today that is has successfully completed the previously announced sale of Skype. The deal values the business at $2.75 billion. The buyer is an investor group led by Silver Lake and includes the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Andreessen Horowitz, and Joltid Limited. eBay ...

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 ...