All, John Canfield, Senior Director of eBay’s Fraud Prevention Policy team, has just made an AB post regarding the reported anticipated issues that could occur tomorrow, April 1, as a result of the Conficker worm virus. I wanted to share here to make sure folks were aware: The worm can be transmitted via infected USB…

I already have the eBay and PayPal apps on my iPhone and, as of today, the most logical addition of all of the eBay Inc. portfolio has been made to the Apple App Store. Skype for iPhone is now available in addition to Skype calling and instant messaging to any 2nd generation iPod touch with…

The Twitter bug that has been biting seemingly everyone over the past 3 months has also penetrated a number of groups here at eBay Inc. The eBay Developer Program has been on Twitter since last Summer (@eBayDevProgram) as have I (@ebayinkblog). But we’ve seen some recent additions too, both internationally (@eBayUK and @eBayDE) and from…

Now there are three reasons for me to visit Ireland (and this is the first that doesn’t involve beer). There’s a pretty cool blog post over on the PayPal Blog from Scott Thompson, president of PayPal, talking about the official opening of PayPal’s new European Centre of Excellence, based in the Ballycoolin Business Park in…

I’ve had a few meetings with Danny Chang of eBay Motors over the past few months about using social media tools to communicate with our audiences – whether it be customers, investors, analysts or media. We always get excited talking about the possible uses of tools like Twitter for projects being worked on here at…

Things are starting to heat up over on the DevCon blog and the eBay Developer blog because early-bird registration for this Summer’s eBay and PayPal Developer’s Conference is open and will be through April 30.

Last Friday, the US Postal Service (USPS) announced that it was taking “aggressive steps to cut costs” and revealed the closing of six of its 80 district offices. The six offices closing were located in Lake Mary, FL; North Reading, MA; Manchester, NH; Edison, NJ; Erie, PA, and Spokane, WA.

I was reading an interesting post earlier today over on The PayPal blog that I think would be of considerable interest to eBay sellers. Michelle Peacock, senior director of government relations for PayPal, talks about a new federal tax reporting law that will affect eBay sellers: While these regulations don’t take effect until 2011, it’s…

Remember to please visit http://blog.ebay.com/legal/ if you have any questions regarding forward looking statements in this blog post. And we’re off and running here at eBay Inc.’s 2009 analyst day. CEO, John Donahoe set the tone this morning by addressing the past, the present and the future with an emphasis on how eBay Inc. is…

All, Just a heads up that the press release, presentations and updated fact sheet from today’s eBay Inc. analyst day can be found at http://blog.ebay.com/news. The information there includes the three-year roadmap of the eBay Inc. portfolio with highlights of the financial outlook for 2011. I should warn you that the presentations from today are…