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…

PayPal is boosting cross-border trade by connecting more and more consumers and merchants worldwide using pioneering technology, Rohan Mahadevan told an international audience last month in Singapore. Rohan, vice president of PayPal Asia, co-chaired a session on achieving entrepreneurial success at The Wall Street Journal’s “Unleashing Innovation” conference. He emphasized that PayPal is fostering an…

Online advertising is constantly evolving, and online campaigns are now more measurable, dependable and efficient than those in the offline world. At eBay, display marketing is seen as a way to connect people with things they need and love. Luke Tillo of the eBay Internet Marketing team explains how. What is display marketing?  It’s anything…

Huge congrats to eBay’s Dane Glasgow and Rob Veres for being named to SV / SJ Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 Rising Stars 2011.

Raji Arasu, Vice President of Technology for eBay, has been named to the prestigious Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal 2011 Women of Influence list. Nominated by her peers, and recognized by the publication’s Women of Influence committee, Raji will receive the award at a formal awards’ dinner on April 14. She will also be included…

There’s a new kid on the blogging block… The eBay Tech Blog (http://ebaytechblog.com) was launched earlier this week and I for one am very excited at the possibilities. Partner this with our eBay Developer Blog and I think we’ve got some pretty cool information on cutting edge innovation coming out of our company. I realize…

Hi gang, As you know, I sat down with some of the attendees at last week’s eBay DEVCON to talk about their technologies, the eBay platform and the event itself. Here is another in that series. In the following video, we sat down with Brian Lowe, CEO of MyStoreCredit. Enjoy! Cheers, RBH

I’ll be live-blogging from next week’s eBay Developer’s Conference and trying to capture as much video footage to share with you as I can. I’m setting up a Twitter list that breaks down all the different folks that will be providing updates coming out of the conference. I managed to get added to the agenda…

The second annual Social Innovation Awards were held in New York City last night and eBay’s Green Team received the social innovator award for employee engagement. The event – which recognizes corporations and nonprofits for implementing groundbreaking business strategies and programs – is organized by JustMeans, an organization that bridges the worlds of social media…

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…