Yesterday, eBay released significant updates to its iPhone and iPad apps, giving consumers a faster, easier and more streamlined experience for buying and selling from their mobile devices. The updated eBay apps will play an important role in eBay Mobile’s year to come. Mobile shopping continues to shape the way consumers buy and sell, and users have clearly embraced mobile…

On your marks…get set…watch! Although many of us can’t get a coveted ticket to the Olympic Games in London this year, eBay is helping to bring the action on the TV screen to your very own iPad. Today, eBay has updated its popular Watch with eBay app with a special, interactive summer games section so…

eBay at SXSW kicks off with the unveiling of the standalone “Watch with eBay” app for iPad.

eBay announced a limited-time offer for eBay Instant Sale, allowing customers to get up to $475 in trade-in of their iPad 2.

CNN interview with eBay Mobile VP, Steve Yankovich, talking about Couch Commerce and the new “Watch with eBay” feature on the iPad app.

A “Watch with eBay” tab is being added to the eBay iPad app that enables users to shop for items on the marketplace related to what they are watching.

You can sign up as a Beta tester today at touch.ebay.com/tablet. Here, we chat about the experience and the features involved with the tablet-specific experience.

eBay Instant Sale now offers new, limited-time pricing for broken or damaged iPods, iPhones and iPads, in celebration of Earth Month / Infographic illustrates carbon savings.

As illustrated in the infographic, iPad 2 activity on the eBay marketplace is booming. Interestingly, some of the strongest demand is coming from outside the U.S. in countries like Russia, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan – many of which Apple either just began selling the iPad 2 in on Friday or plans to in April.

eBay Instant Sale has seen more than 22,000 offers on first generation iPads since Apple’s announcement of iPad 2 last Wednesday. This represents a 796% increase compared with the previous week.