It was announced this morning that eBay has agreed to acquire Zong and Scott Thompson, President of PayPal, just posted to the PayPal Blog about the news… Today we announced that eBay has agreed to acquire Zong for approximately $240 million. Zong is one of the leading providers of payments through mobile carrier billing, with…

Timing, they say, is everything. I had no idea 3 months ago, when I booked my European trip, that we would be announcing these key changes to the eBay Marketplace this same week. On top of that, the two-day period when I’m celebrating the marriage of my little (not so little anymore I guess at…