April 30th, 2013

Ebay To Use Mobile Tech To Go Deeper Into Offline Commerce With A Touchscreen Store Window With Kate Spade Saturday Coming This Summer

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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: the company is planning a partnership with a retailer that will create a “pop up” shop with a gigantic touchscreen store window. Donahoe says that this will take place this summer in New York and is part of a bigger push eBay is making to bring… → Read More

March 26th, 2013

John Donahoe, eBay President And CEO, To Take The Disrupt NY Stage

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We’re pleased to announce John Donahoe, President and CEO of eBay, as a Disrupt NY speaker. Under his tutelage, eBay and its subsidiary PayPal have grown tremendously, with both companies expecting to do $20 billion each in 2013 mobile commerce. → Read More

February 14th, 2011

Jack Ma Flies Thousands of Miles to Palo Alto, Still Doesn't Want to See Carol Bartz

Burn! According to sources, Alibaba Group’s CEO Jack Ma is in town and he’s not even paying a courtesy call to his estranged partners at Yahoo.

Ma was spotted dining with Taobao CEO Jonathan Luk and other Alibaba executives at Fuki Sushi in Palo Alto last night, and a spokesperson for the company confirmed they were in town for meetings. Another source close to the company, who requested… → Read More

February 16th, 2010

Tech Delegation Goes To Russia To Carry Out 21st Century Statecraft

Silicon Valley and the State Department are getting along quite well under the Obama Administration. Last year, a tech delegation traveled with the State Department to Iraq and Mexico City to see how technology can help aid the countries. As a result of those trips, the Iraqi government set up a YouTube channel and digitized the contents of its looted national museum, while Mexico set up an SMS… → Read More