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…

Robbert de Haan, Marketing Director of PayPal Benelux, used The PayPal blog to let folks know that they’ve expanded PayPal buyer protection to over 900 categories on Marktplaats.nl (the most popular classified site in the Netherlands and an eBay Inc company). You can read his post here. Cheers, RBH

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 reported second quarter 2008 earnings results a few minutes ago. The company posted second quarter revenue of $2.20 billion, up $361 million from the same period last year. Net income on a GAAP basis was $460 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income was $568 million, or $0.43 per diluted share….