| Jeff Jordan / Fortune: |
Godzilla vs. Mothra, the sequel
— What happens when two giants collide? — FORTUNE — Amazon and Google are on a collision course. — When I was at eBay, we had a belief that no one was going to compete with us by replicating exactly what we were doing. We had first mover advantages and network effects.
| Tim Peterson / Adweek: |
EBay Plans to Share Its Users' Data With Brands Faces perception issues
— EBay will soon start letting brands build out audience segments using its wealth of shopping data so they can target ads to consumers on non-eBay sites, following a similar move by Amazon.
| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
— The knock at the door came at 7:03 a.m. — Shawn Hogan, the CEO of a successful online marketing company called Digital Point Solutions, was sitting on his sofa. He didn't immediately answer the door.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Ebay To Use Mobile Tech To Go Deeper Into Offline Commerce
With A Touchscreen Store Window With Kate Spade Saturday Coming This Summer — Ebay CEO John Donahoe today described how the e-commerce giant is moving further into the world of offline commerce, using mobile technology to do it …
| Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook: |
Alibaba Buys Stake in Sina Weibo, a Chinese Answer to Twitter
— Alibaba was once known as China's answer to eBay. Now the Internet giant is forging closer ties to the country's counterpart to Twitter. — The company agreed on Monday to buy an 18 percent stake in the Sina Corporation's Weibo …
| Andrew Chen: |
Why developers are leaving the Facebook platform
— Attitudes towards the Facebook platform have changed — Recently, Bill Gurley of Benchmark wrote a great piece on how platform companies like Facebook, iOS, Android, eBay, and others manage the ecosystem around them.
| Alistair Barr / Reuters: |
Exclusive: EBay recruits users in push against sales tax legislation
— (Reuters) - EBay Inc Chief Executive John Donahoe began emailing millions of users of the company's online marketplace on Sunday in an unprecedented lobbying effort to change looming Federal sales tax legislation.
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Thanks To PayPal And Marketplace Growth, eBay's Q1 2013 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.7B, Net Income Up 19 Percent
— After posting strong Q4 2012 results in January, eBay once again saw better-than-expected financial results in Q1 2013. Revenue was up 14 percent to $3.7 billion, compared to the same period of 2012.
| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Reid Hoffman Invests In A Startup Building A Simpler, Better, Mobile Version Of eBay
— A new startup named Sold is building an application that offers a better way to sell your old stuff than eBay. — Take a few photos, answer a few questions, and they find a buyer, send you a box and pick up the item at your door.
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
eBay-Backed E-Commerce Software Company ChannelAdvisor Files For $86M IPO
— The latest technology company to join the IPO bandwagon is e-commerce optimization company ChannelAdvisor. The S-1, filed with the SEC today, indicates that ChannelAdvisor could raise as much as $86.25 million in an offering …
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).