The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted unanimously yesterday to provide new guidance to public companies about how to comply with the securities laws via websites and blogs. “The last time the SEC issued guidance in this area, the idea of ‘social networks’ hadn’t yet been developed, and creating a social network where shareholders could…

Two more General Announcements went up today that caught my eye… ***A Message from John Canfield: Update on our Fraud Prevention Efforts*** John Canfield, Senior Director of eBay’s Trust & Safety team, made an AB post earlier today updating folks on eBay fraud prevention efforts. On the whole, the post makes for a one-stop repository…

The above AB post yesterday previewed some changes coming soon to the Media and Jewelry categories on eBay. In the media category: Condition values “Brand New”, “Like New”, “Very Good”, “Good” and “Acceptable” will take the place of the current values “New” and “Used”. In the Jewelry category: eBay Item Specifics will be attached to…

It has been a year since Northwest Airlines became the first airline to accept PayPal payment for online ticket purchases. It was announced today that Northwest is the first airline to accept PayPal Pay Later. The service lets passengers buy tickets on Northwest’s Web site, and then defer payments for 90 days, and is available…

I managed to spend some time this afternoon with Danny Chang, Manager of Buyer Strategy for eBay Motors. We had actually connected via Twitter when I first set up the eBayInkBlog Twitter feed. Check out and “follow” the eBay Motors Twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/ebaymotors. Danny wanted to talk about ways in which Motors could use…

Two weeks ago, Gala, one of the most popular lifestyle magazines in Germany started a charity auction of unique photos, showing German musicians wearing Tiffany & Co jewelry… The auction kicked off with a big lifestyle event in Hamburg with a co-branded logo board of Gala, Tiffany & Co and eBay at the red carpet….

All, Last time I used a presentation tool on Ink it slowed a few reader’s computers down. I think we may have found an alternative to avoid that problem but wanted to run it by you first. . Please let me know in the comments if this one is posing problems for you or not….

Earlier this week, the eBay Desktop application was downloaded for the 1,000,000th time… not bad for staying fairly under the radar since it was first launched back in February. According to Alan Lewis over on the eBay Desktop Blog, this is more than double what was expected at this point of the year. Congratulations to…

As reported over on the PayPal Blog, American Eagle Outfitters and OfficeMax are the latest two new merchants to join the growing list of places to shop online with your PayPal account. “AE continuously strives to provide the best possible online shopping experience for its customers,” said Fred Grover, executive vice president, e-commerce and international,…

Rajiv Dutta to retire from eBay; Lorrie Norrington to head eBay Marketplaces Effective in October, Rajiv Dutta, President, eBay Marketplaces, will retire from the company. Lorrie Norrington will be succeeding Rajiv as President of eBay Marketplaces. She will report directly to eBay President and CEO John Donahoe. John announced it on the eBay Q2FY08 earnings…