eBay Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Donahoe sat down with Fortune editor Adam Lashinsky Monday afternoon to talk about subjects ranging from green commerce and using Bloom Energy fuel cells on various eBay campuses, to legislation about a proposed internet sales tax. The chat was part of the magazine’s annual Fortune Brainstorm Green conference in…

eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe recently joined CNBC host Maria Bartiromo and roughly a dozen rising stars of “collaborative consumption” for an intimate dinner and chat about the new sharing economy in Silicon Valley. (Watch video excerpts of the conversation.) Today’s new breed of technology companies, writes CNBC producer Katie Kramer, “offer consumers easy access…

eBay is partnering with top fashion designers on a charity auction to promote economic development in Haiti through job creation and vocational education for Haitian artisans. One hundred fifty designers, including Donna Karan, Diane von Furstenberg, Tory Burch and Oscar de la Renta, will create customized papier-mâché hearts to be auctioned off on eBay starting…

As essential as PayPal’s mobile capabilities are for businesses, they’re equally powerful for nonprofit organizations. PayPal works closely with nonprofit organizations (over 300,000) and helped them to process more than $4.6 billion in 2012 alone. Tanya Urschel, Nonprofit Engagement Manager at PayPal and Katya Andresen, COO/CSO of Network for Good, an online giving platform, co-authored…

Hacking code, eating pizza and drinking beer, and tackling some of New York City’s biggest social challenges — it’s just another day at the eBay Inc. New York City office! This past weekend, eBay Inc. hosted the opening hackathon of the fourth annual NYC BigApps competition at its Manhattan-based R&D center. The two-day event drew over 100…

PayPal is proud to play a part in making it easier to give to the causes that matter, and to be trusted by more than 300,000 North American non-profits to process $4.6 billion in essential funds last year. One of the things I love about my job is that chance to take everything we’re learning…

At eBay, we’re building some of the world’s most efficient data centers, and we want other companies to do the same. GigaOM reported earlier this week about eBay’s new Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) report, which measures how efficiently buying and selling transactions are delivered in terms of revenue, performance, cost and carbon footprint. The report…

I’ve been with eBay Inc. since 2009, and even just in the past four years, I’ve witnessed a significant change in the growth and importance of data centers, and the way we, as an industry, measure their efficiency. The Green Grid’s Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric – as well as the water and carbon equivalents…

Today is International Corporate Philanthropy Day, a time each year for the private sector to raise awareness about the community-focused programs they support that create positive social change. Here at eBay Foundation, we’re recognizing the day by highlighting a new collaboration with the Global Social Business Incubator (GSBI) — an internationally renowned program, based in…

Today four billion people worldwide live on less than $3 a day and have no access to formal work. Our partners at Samasource believe that access to dignified work is a fundamental human right and a necessity in order to fight poverty at its roots. With the goal of providing life-changing work to more than…