Every company can point to a handful of employees and truly call them experts in their field. The best of the best. I think Dennis Goedegebuure is one of those people at eBay. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Dennis on a few projects over the past two years and I’ve attended more than…

People never cease to amaze me. At a time that sees everyone tightening their budgets and thinner in the wallet, eBay buyers and sellers raised a record $50 million for U.S. and U.K. non-profit organizations in 2009 – a 17% jump since last year. Users have contributed an amazing $162 million to their favorite causes…

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. Communities that made the most purchases on eBay

I wanted to share a couple of videos that ran today on CNBC. The first features eBay CEO, John Donahoe, discussing eBay’s take on Black Friday activity in the marketplace and PayPal‘s role in that. He also talks about m-commerce, and the early successes of the eBay Mobile application…

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.

According to the Climate Counts Blog, the biggest jump in their third annual Corporate Climate Scores was by eBay. With a jump of 48 points to 53 (yes, I realize that this means eBay was pretty low this time last year), eBay stands out among a list of 90 well-known consumer companies. For the second…

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 the opportunity to be a part of that…

We’re coming to the end of Day 1 of PayPal X Innovate 09 so before I settle in for the afternoon keynote by Tim O’Reilly, I wanted to share the list of companies that today all announced new apps built with PayPal X. AERS, Carlson, FIS, FundRazr, MedPayOnline, Payvment, Playspan, ShopSavvy, Storenvy, Super Rewards, Sun…

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