Three students from the University of California, Berkeley, visited eBay Inc.’s San Jose South campus recently to receive an award from Collegefeed, a startup that aims to help students and recent graduates kick-start their careers. eBay Inc., a Collegefeed partner, hosted the students — Anand Sampat, Pei Lin and Daniel Koohmarey — and handed out…

eBay Inc. leaders and employees gathered to celebrate the company’s inventors March 18 in a ceremony at San Jose’s South campus. Emily Ward, vice president for Technology and Patents, welcomed the crowd, saying, “This party is for all of you – to celebrate our inventors, our innovators, our global talent – everyone who works so…

This is an edited version of a post from eBay Inc.’s Main Street blog. Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in an important copyright case, Kirtsaeng v. Wiley. The 6-3 opinion ensures that books and other copyright goods that are made overseas can be sold in the United States without the permission of…

You Can’t Fake Fashion, eBay’s collaboration with the Council of Fashion Designers of America, launched its spring 2013 collection of designer tote bags today. The You Can’t Fake Fashion campaign celebrates original design and raises awareness of counterfeiting. Ninety of America’s foremost designers — including Ralph Lauren, Diane von Furstenberg, Prabal Gurung, Rodarte and rag…

One Direction for Red Nose Day. Photo courtesy of Comic Relief It’s Red Nose Day in the U.K., a charity fundraising effort with celebrity muscle that’s put on by Comic Relief. While the BBC telethon is a one-day event, eBay is again hosting auctions of exclusive fashion items and celebrity experiences, such as the opportunity to…

At eBay, we’re building some of the world’s most efficient data centers, and we want other companies to do the same. GigaOM reported earlier this week about eBay’s new Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) report, which measures how efficiently buying and selling transactions are delivered in terms of revenue, performance, cost and carbon footprint. The report…

The Silicon Valley Business Journal and the San Francisco Business Times have honored eBay Inc.’s General Counsel Mike Jacobson with a Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing more than 30 years of outstanding legal service. Fifteen of those years have been spent at eBay – Mike joined as general counsel in 1998. Back then, eBay was privately…

The full-scale rollout is being handled via Nihon PayPal KK, the joint venture company established last year by PayPal and SoftBank to market and distribute PayPal Here throughout Japan. “We’ve worked hard to be the first to make this type of simple, secure mobile payment solution widely available in Japan,” said Rohan Mahadevan, vice president,…

StubHub is set to become the first major ticketing company to brand a major sports facility with its name. The former Home Depot Center in Southern California, official home of the 2012 MLS Cup Champion LA Galaxy and intra-city rival Chivas USA, will be inaugurated as StubHub Center in June 2013. Managed by AEG Facilities,…

eBay India’s latest campaign of humorous TV ads shows young couples learning about the advantages of online shopping – and the value and variety on eBay. “Our new campaign is in conjunction with our theme ‘Want it. Get it,’ which plays to eBay’s core strength of unmatched deals  and wide variety across categories, giving consumers…