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eBay's John Donahoe Literally Starts Hammering Out the Plan for Mobile Payments
John Donahoe has a hammer, and he’s not afraid to use it. The yellow-handled hammer, which the eBay CEO purchased at Home Depot using PayPal, signals that the company’s plans for entering the mobile...
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Online Commerce Trend: More Spending, Smaller Purchases
The average checkout size is shrinking, even though more people spent more money online this holiday season. In November and December, the number of online transactions increased by 37 percent, and...
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eBay Promotes David Marcus to Fill Top Vacancy at PayPal
PayPal has appointed David Marcus to the position of president, filling the vacancy that was suddenly created when Scott Thompson left to become CEO of Yahoo. Marcus joined PayPal in August 2011, after...
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PayPal's New Leader to Bring Entrepreneurial Vibe to Payments
David Marcus’s self-proclaimed interests include mobile, payments, technology and getting stuff done. True to his word, the entrepreneur has done a lot in the past eight months. He sold his start-up to...
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EBay's Stock Jumps Thanks to Double-Digit Revenue Gains
EBay easily exceeded expectations in the first quarter, reporting double-digit gains for both revenue and income. In after-hours trading, the stock was up 7.3 percent, or $2.63, to trade at $38.50 a...
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eBay's CEO Says It's "Shifting From Defense to Offense"
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com Watch out Amazon, eBay is coming for you. Or, at least, that was the undertone of eBay’s conference call yesterday. The company reported strong first-quarter results,...
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Place Your Bets: Will Loeb Drop Another Bomb on Yahoo at Vegas Confab Later...
Daniel Loeb of Third Point — the activist shareholder who set off a management crisis at Yahoo last week with the revelation that new CEO Scott Thompson had added a fake computer science degree to his...
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Loeb Calls Again for Thompson Firing From Yahoo, as Former eBay Boss Supports...
As expected, activist shareholder Daniel Loeb of Third Point released a new letter on the bio controversy he set off at Yahoo, again calling for the firing of its CEO, Scott Thompson. “It seems...
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PayPal to Unveil Newest Retail Partners for In-Store Payments Next Week
PayPal is hosting a media event next week where it will unveil the next batch of mega-retailers that are adopting the company’s online payment network at the register. In an invitation sent to All...
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Analysts Expecting eBay to Beat Q2 Estimates, but Cautious on Outlook
Analysts will be looking for signs of weakness in eBay’s results tomorrow when the company releases second-quarter earnings after the bell. Despite a relatively stable and growing U.S. business from...
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No Signs of a Slowdown as eBay's Revenues Jump 23 Percent in Q2
EBay’s shares rallied today in after-hours trading after the company reported second-quarter results that included a revenue increase of 23 percent and profits of more than double. Despite economic...
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Attention Shoppers: Americans Spent $43.2 Billion Online in Q2
No wonder Amazon and eBay reported solid second quarters. iStockphoto.com/mbortolino In the U.S., e-commerce sales reached $43.2 billion in the second quarter — up 15 percent compared to the year-ago...
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Box Makes All the Clouds Compatible
Box CEO Aaron Levie is a speaker-circuit favorite, known as the enterprise guy who keeps people awake and laughing. Today he takes a stage of his own making, at the second annual BoxWorks developer...
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Analysts May Be Neutral, but eBay CEO Donahoe Is Feeling Good
Not bad. Nice. Solid. Not exceptional. Prudent. Photo Credit: eBay Those are all words being used to describe eBay’s third quarter. But while the analysts are skeptical about whether eBay can keep up...
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PayPal Cutting 325 Employees as Part of Restructuring Plan
PayPal has confirmed that it is eliminating 325 positions in the company as part of its plan to consolidate its product divisions into one large group. “While PayPal is strong and performing well,...
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eBay Beats by a Penny
gracious_tiger / Shutterstock.com In each of its last four quarters, eBay has posted double-digit year-over-year revenue growth. Looks like the company’s fourth quarter was no different. After market...
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CEO John Donahoe Says eBay Is Building the Uber for Delivery
EBay’s CEO John Donahoe said the e-commerce company believes it can provide same-day delivery at scale. Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com “We are building the Uber for delivery people,” Donahoe said this...
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eBay Beats the Street by a Penny -- Again
First look at eBay’s first-quarter earnings, hot off the wire, and they’re not bad at all. Earnings came in at 63 cents per share on revenue of $3.7 billion, a 14 percent jump compared to the year-ago...
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Mobile and Global: 10 Minutes With eBay CEO John Donahoe
Photo Credit: eBayAs e-commerce has grown more competitive with the rise of startups like Square, micro-payments companies like Stripe and independent stores like Etsy, John Donahoe has had his work...
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eBay's Donahoe: "We're Not Against an Internet Sales Tax"
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.comE-commerce giant eBay has been an outspoken critic of the Marketplace Fairness Act, a new national online sales tax bill that would allow all states to collect sales tax from...
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eBay Meets Street's Q2 Expectations, but Forecast Falls Short
eBay booked another solid quarter, as the marketplace and payments company reported adjusted earnings per share of 63 cents in the second quarter, right in line with analyst estimates. Revenue in the...
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With Amazon in Its Crosshairs, eBay to Launch Same-Day Delivery for eBay.com...
In the race to scale a same-day delivery service nationwide, eBay says it’s ready to step on the gas. CEO John Donahoe said in an interview last week that his company will this year begin rolling out...
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eBay CEO John Donahoe on the Importance of Design
EBay is a monster of e-commerce. With a $67 billion market cap, upward of 130 million monthly active users and tens of billions in volume moving through the service regularly, it’s hard to argue...
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eBay CEO on "Cautious" Holiday Outlook: We Didn’t Mean to Sound So Negative
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.com EBay’s stock price is down more than five percent since the close of market on Wednesday — the day that eBay reported its third-quarter earnings. But the reason for that...
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Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda Departs for Roles at...
John Maeda, the former MIT professor who is a director on the boards of Sonos and Quirky, is leaving his job as president at the prestigious Rhode Island School of Design to take a role at venture...
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