Chuck Pletcher has a new post over on the eBay Classifieds blog about updates to the eBay Classifieds Pets iPhone app and the Classifieds iPhone app itself. The eBay Classifieds Pets iPhone app has recently been modified to ensure the best user experience. Version 1.0.1 includes the following: * Retina display optimization throughout the app…

It has been 3 years since eBay Classifieds launched in the U.S. and to mark the occasion they’ve launched their own blog. Good stuff! Here are some fun stats listed from today’s blog entry… • Three years ago we had just a couple hundred thousand visitors. Today we have over 5 million. What a birthday…

Playing with the new Kijiji classifieds iPhone app in beta. Unavailable publicly. It’s pretty cool though. Can’t wait to write a review.

Kijiji.com, eBay’s free, local, family-friendly classifieds site, today announced a partnership with Petfinder.com, an online, searchable database of adoptable animals who need permanent homes. The partnership means that users will now be able to browse more than 200,000 Petfinder adoptable pets via Kijiji.com. From the release: “We are thrilled to partner with Petfinder.com as part…

Today the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware issued a pretrial decision that dismissed two charges brought by eBay Inc. against craigslist board directors Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster. A trial is set to begin on December 7, 2009 on the rest of the charges. eBay’s deputy general counsel, Mary Huser issued the…

eBay CEO and President, John Donahoe took the stage at Shop.org this morning and the theme of his keynote focused on how consumer behavior is driving changes in technology. For close followers of eBay, John started by going over key messages and points we’ve heard in recent presentations – nothing new here. Two core businesses…

I have been fortunate to sit in on a few Kijiji and eBay Classifieds meetings over the past year and I’m always left feeling inspired after getting a chance to sit down with General Manager of Kijiji US, Martin Herbst. His passion for what he does on a daily basis is infectious. He and his…

When it rains… …On Sunday I talked about eBay launching eBayClassifieds.com in two key U.S. markets. Then this morning, it was reported that San Mateo-based startup, Oodle, has been given the reins to Facebook‘s Marketplace application – essentially hoping to turn it into an online Classifieds tool for Facebook users. Then, there’s the news out…

eBay is no stranger to running tests across its platforms. In the Classifieds Group, for example, they opened up Spanish language sites in Texas and Florida last year to see if the bilingual communities in those States would find it useful. They also tested Gumtree –known very well in the UK – in Boston, Chicago…

eBay Inc. has acquired Den Bla Avis and Bilbasen, two leading online classifieds sites in Denmark, for approximately $390 million USD. The acquisition marks eBay’s entry into the Danish e-commerce market, provides an opportunity to create a national classifieds business there, and further strengthens eBay’s world-leading portfolio of online classifieds sites. Founded as printed classified…