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Indian Ad Retargeting Startup Vizury Is Raising $20 Million
Vizury, a Bangalore-based ad retargeting startup, is in talks with investors to raise an additional $20 million by March this year, with existing backer Inventus leading the round, according to sources…
eBay Pushes Into Curating And Selling Digital Goods, Launches Dedicated Marketplace For Digital Comics
eBay has long been known as the de facto marketplace for buying and selling physical goods. But today the marketplace giant is making an interesting move into digital goods, launching…
WorldLister App Promises To Generate Better, Faster eBay Listings
In the world of eBay sellers, some people photograph their wares on models and take the time to write up comprehensive product descriptions. Others… are kind of indecipherable. Or just…
PayPal Launches A Mobile Check-In And Payments Service With Orderbird In Germany
PayPal has been bullish on boosting its payments business by tapping into the growing use of smartphones, and this week the company launched a service in Germany to extend that…
eBay And Amazon On This Year’s Marketplace Holiday Shopping Trends
Each year, e-commerce companies predict the new technology shopping trend for the holiday shopping season. In years past, it’s been the rise of the iPad/mobile shopper, or the expansion of…
eBay Debuts Shoppable Touchscreens And Digital Storefronts For Sony, Toms And Rebecca Minkoff In San Francisco
eBay is debuting a number of new, connected digital storefronts for shoppers today at the Westfield Mall in San Francisco. Similar to the marketplace giant’s shoppable windows in New York,…
eBay Debuts New Angie’s List Competitor And Local Service Provider Marketplace, eBayHire, In The US
After a test in the UK, it looks like eBay is launching its new local service provider marketplace eBayHire in the US.
eBay CEO John Donahoe Is Bullish On Digital Currency, And He’s Keeping Tabs On Bitcoin
There’s no doubt that Bitcoin is getting plenty of attention these days — we’ve seen folks like the Winklevoss Twins and Chamath Palihapitiya throw their financial weight behind Bitcoin in…
eBay Barely Beats Investor Expectations With Revenue Of $3.9B, Stock Falls 5% In After-Hours Trading
eBay reported its third-quarter financial performance today, including revenue of $3.9 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.64. The company’s revenue was up 14 percent from the same quarter…
Ebay Acquires “Content Meets Commerce” Shopping Site, Bureau Of Trade, As Its Personalization Efforts Heat Up
eBay has acquired online marketplace for men’s shopping Bureau of Trade, the company announced today. Founder Michael Phillips Moskowitz is joining the eBay Marketplaces team, where his focus will be on helping eBay…
EBay Debuts Its Answer To Amazon Lockers: Click & Collect At Retail Stores, While eBay Now Goes Abroad
E-commerce giant eBay today made its latest moves to blur the lines between online and offline commerce, and it’s chosen the UK to do it: it launched a new “Click…
With Flipkart’s Launch Of PayZippy, India’s Answer To Amazon Wants To Become Its PayPal, Too
Flipkart, the largest e-commece site in India, has been likened to Amazon both for what it offers and its presence in the market. But it has one crucial difference: because credit…
Aussie Recruitment Marketplace RecruitLoop Closes $500,000 Seed Round To Fund American Expansion
Demystifying the cabal of recruitment, Australian start-up RecruitLoop has just closed a $500,000 seed round to establish a United States presence for its hiring marketplace, which promises to undercut the…
eBay Is Testing A New Local Service Provider Marketplace In The UK
eBay is testing a new local service provider marketplace in the UK, called eBayHire. It appears that the test is first rolling out in the UK, and there isn’t a…
eBay CEO John Donahoe: I Wish We Could Buy Airbnb But We Can’t Afford It
At Fortune’s Brainstorm Conference in Aspen today, eBay CEO John Donahoe joined Airbnb’s co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky onstage to talk about how they mentor each other (you can watch…
eBay Brings Same-Day Delivery Service eBay Now To Desktop, Prepares Regional Expansions
eBay Now, the same-day shipping service that first debuted for San Francisco residents nearly a year ago before further expansions into San Jose and New York, is preparing to broaden its…
Driven By Marketplace And PayPal Growth, eBay’s Q2 Revenue Up 14 Percent To $3.9B
As expected, eBay reported decent financial results in Q2 2013 today. Revenue was up 14% to $3.9 billion, compared to the same period of 2012. The company reported second quarter…
eBay Is Latest To Join 3D Printing Craze With New App For Customizable Goods, eBay Exact
Ebay is hopping on the 3D printing bandwagon. This morning, the company announced the debut of a new iPhone application called eBay Exact which allows users to browse and buy…
Occipital Releases One Of The First High Quality 3D Scanners For OS X
While Windows 3D scanning software has until now outperformed any Apple counterpart, Occipital Inc. plans to remedy that today with the launch of Skanect for OS X. Originally developed by…
eBay Buys 2dehands.be And 2ememain.be In Belgium, Consolidates Classifieds Power In Europe
It may be a holiday in the U.S. but eBay never sleeps. Today, the American e-commerce giant announced that it is buying 2dehands.be and 2ememain.be, the two biggest online classified…
eBay Gets Physical With A Street-Side Sales Kiosk For Kate Spade Saturday
On the heels of eBay CEO John Donahoe’s statement at TC Disrupt in April that the company would be using mobile technology to push further into offline commerce, eBay’s Retail…
eBay To Make True Window Shopping A Reality With New NYC Virtual Retail Stores
eBay is debuting new “shoppable window” virtual stores over the course of this month and next (via Reuters), to help retailer Fifth & Pacific Companies Inc. sell its new line…
eBay Updates iOS Apps With Revamped UI, Drivers License Scanning For Sign-Ups, And A Whole Lot More
eBay has just updated its mobile app with a whole host of new features and a revamped look. To start, the refreshed UI makes it clear that eBay wants a…
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: the company is planning a…
EBay Beats Out Amazon To Lead $50M Round In India’s E-Commerce Giant Snapdeal To Build Up Its BRIC Business
Online e-commerce giant eBay last week said that it expects to have 12% of its sales coming from BRIC countries by 2015 in a global e-commerce market that will be…
Game On, Google: eBay Now Same-Day Delivery Service Expands To Chicago And Dallas
EBay is in the middle of its Analyst Day, and just a little while ago it announced plans for some significant expansions for eBay Now, its same-day delivery service, with…
John Donahoe, eBay President And CEO, To Take The Disrupt NY Stage
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…
Ebay Shuts Down Instant Sale Service For Cash Trade-Ins On Phones And Other Gadgets
Ebay, the online marketplace that recently added a redesign reminiscent of Pinterest to enhance a personalized experience for its users, is paring down in other areas. Among them, the site…
eBay-Owned Social Shopping Site Svpply Debuts A New Android App
eBay-owned Svpply is debuting an Android version of its Svpply mobile application today, which brings its catalog of over 2.4 million hand-picked items from 110,000 stores to the Android operating system for…
Pulling From More Than 400M Listings, eBay’s Pinterest-Like, New Personalized Home Page Experience Rolls Out Tomorrow
Last October, eBay debuted a completely new homepage experience and redesign, marking the company’s biggest homepage in the marketplace’s history. eBay’s feed experience has been in pilot phase for several…
