eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe spoke at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich, Germany on Jan. 24, noting that lines between online and offline commerce are blurring “at a stunningly fast rate.”

eBay today announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire all of the shares of brands4friends for approximately US $200 million.

eBay Inc. has announced that it plans to expand its European customer service operations in Dublin, Ireland – dubbing it a “European Centre of Excellence.” The expansion in Dublin means a scaling back of its additional existing European customer service center in Dreilinden, Germany that will now be refocused on providing local, German-language support only….

Dominik Dommick, senior director of marketing at PayPal Germany, has put up a pretty cool post over on the PayPal blog. They gave two competing teams in Germany a PayPal account with 500 Euros and an iPhone running the PayPal app. The goal was to see how far you can get in the offline world…