Cyber Monday is traditionally one of the busiest days of the year for Internet retailers, and eBay Inc. reaped the benefits. Thanks to the growth of smartphones and tablets, which allow for “anytime, anywhere” shopping, eBay Inc. saw a surge in mobile commerce this past Monday across all divisions. On a year-over-year basis, mobile transacted volume…

Holiday Shopping Season Kicks Off with Heavy Black Friday and Cyber Monday Traffic Online sales reached record numbers this past week due to Black Friday and Cyber Monday (also dubbed Mobile Monday) traffic. Online volume was high all weekend driving sales to $1.25 billion and surpassing last year’s record of $1.03 billion according to comScore….

eBay Mobile announced that shoppers in the U.S. spent two and a half times more via eBay Mobile this Cyber Monday than last year

We’ve been lucky to have a guest visitor join us this week directly from the North Pole. Okay, not really the North Pole, but it’s Julie Haddon who not only was one of the leads for eBay’s Holiday Campaign, but is also one of our Social Media gurus, who will talk about the latest craze…

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…

My first regular contributor to eBay Ink, Online Safety Advisor, Rich LaMagna, appeared on SF Bay Area ABC 7′s “On Your Side” yesterday talking about online consumer protection. The short segment ran last night and focused on the new increased PayPal protection and eBay’s increased commitment to making the site safe. View the segment and…

Even though I waited until “Cyber Monday” to make my first online purchase of the holiday shopping season (and plan to have all done over this coming weekend), Black Friday consumers, particularly those interested in consumer electronics, were online in full force. The most searched for product on eBay across all categories was the Nintendo…