eBay News

EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of the Skype online calling service.

Today: Obama extends jobless benefits as unemployment surges over 10 percent. A tax credit for homebuyers is extended.

Seven Summits Research issues PriceWatch Alerts for EBAY, ORCL, ADP, SUN, and SWKS.

What do Zoolander , Bruno , and eBay have in common? If your answer is "they have all lampooned the fashion industry," sashay on down the catwalk and collect a prize.

Kijiji.com, eBay's free, local, family-friendly classified site, today announced a partnership with the eBay Green Team in the third and final phase of its six-week "re+purpose" campaign.

A second attempt to sell a crypt on top of Marilyn Monroe's final resting place has failed, with not a single bid received for the burial spot in a celebrity-filled Los Angeles cemetery.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has surprised many in the city by beating a retreat to Hawai'i, where his wife and baby daughter were already on vacation, with no warning.

Today is the first day of PayPal's much-hyped PayPal Innovate X 2009, the payments company's first dedicated developer conference.

There is a good likelihood that Skype; its founders, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis; and a group of private equity investors led by Silver Lake Partners are close to settling their legal disputes, allowing eBay to sell 65 percent of Skype for about $2 billion.

PayPal is opening up substantial parts of its global transactional engine, extending the open platform dubbed "PayPal X," company executives announced this morning at PayPal's X Innovate 2009 developer conference in San Francisco.

Online auction house eBay says it has begun removing several items put up for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise funds for the man accused of killing a Kansas abortion provider.

Virginia man incarcerated after years of selling phony Adobe software apps on eBay for years.

It is too hard to avoid saying that "it's about time" and "we told you so", but it is extremely good news to hear from The Wall Street Journal that "EBay Inc., aiming to boost its standing as a holiday shopping destination, is launching a new marketing campaign Monday.

Mike Volpi, then senior vice president at Cisco, talks during a meeting in San Jose, Calif., Dec.

The founders of Skype have sued owner eBay Inc. and an investor group, which includes the CPP Investment Board, that has agreed to buy the Webphone service, accusing them of copyright violation and potentially disrupting the US$1.9-billion deal.

Amazon.com Inc. said Thursday afternoon that third-quarter earnings surged 69%, as the company saw a strong improvement in sales across all of its product lines, including media products such as books, music and video games.

Pierre Omidyar , eBay's founder and chairman, and his wife, Pam, have donated $50 million to the Hawaii Community Foundation.

Internet entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam have pledged to donate $50 million over six years to the Hawaii Community Foundation.

If you plan to sue eBay Inc. , you'd better know the way to San Jose. In a growing trend, federal judges are enforcing the "forum selection clause" in eBay's standard user agreement, which calls for any dispute between eBay and its users to be resolved through a court action filed in Santa Clara County, Calif.

According to eBay CEO John Donahoe , shoppers have already spent about $400 million on the popular commerce site using the company's free iPhone application .