The motivation for eBay Inc.'s acquisition of Internet telephony upstart Skype may be a mystery to most. Technology analysts first speculated that eBay's $2.6 billion purchase of the free Voice over ...

There are two main aspects of this purchase which intrigue me. The first is that eBay is building out its communications platform with this purchase. It will continue to run Skype as a standalone ...

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In “New eBay Wiki aims to harvest collective knowledge of the 193 million eBay community” and “eBay seeks ’social shopping’ dollars with Web 2.0 forays” last June, I discussed eBay’s embrace of the ...

eBay today is launching two new visual search tools that will allow online shoppers to use photos they snap, have saved on their phone, or even those they find while browsing the web or other social ...

Attention, eBay shoppers and sellers. Changes are on the way. The ecommerce giant is planning to ditch PayPal as its primary payments processor and replace it with Adyen, an outfit you may not have ...

What are you really agreeing to when you click that fateful “agree” button? Terms & Conditions cuts out the legal lingo to spell it out in plain English. On March ...

In the hopes of reducing the complexity of making data calls over the Web, eBay has launched a programming language, called ql.io, which bundles separate API requests into a single call. “ql.io can ...

eBay has launched a new Web site intended to help developers create applications for the auction site and its PayPal online payment service. At the Web site, dubbed eBay Community Codebase, developers ...

Eager to find new sources of income beyond its popular online auction format, eBay Inc. launched a new service Thursday that encourages small- and medium-sized sellers to build Web stores that operate ...