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eBay to unveil fair-trade marketplace

SAN MATEO, Calif.--Catering to a rising tide of socially-conscious shoppers, eBay this summer plans to help publicly launch WorldofGood.com, a marketplace for buying fair-trade products, according to Robert Chatwani, eBay's general manager of the project.

Anticipation Builds for Seventh Annual eBay Live! Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif.-- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) (www.ebay.com) today announced that as anticipation builds for the seventh eBay Live Community conference, the last such event until 2010, registration is rapidly filling up. Held this year in Chicago, June 19-21, at McCormick Place West convention center, eBay bills the event as an unrivaled opportunity for eBay sellers from around the world to network with fellow eBay Community members, meet tradeshow exhibitors, and attend educational sessions to learn about best practices for buying and selling on eBay. The event sold out last year, so interested parties are encouraged to sign up via: http://pages.ebay.com/ebaylive.

Anticipation Builds for Seventh Annual eBay Live! Conference

SAN JOSE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY) (www.ebay.com) today announced that as anticipation builds for the seventh eBay Live Community conference, the last such event until 2010, registration is rapidly filling up. Held this year in Chicago, June 19-21, at McCormick Place West convention center, eBay bills the event as an unrivaled opportunity for eBay sellers from around the world to network with fellow eBay Community members, meet tradeshow exhibitors, and attend educational sessions to learn about best practices for buying and selling on eBay. The event sold out last year, so interested parties are encouraged to sign up via: http://pages.ebay.com/ebaylive.

Illegal Ivory Trade Thrives on eBay Despite Year-Old "Ban"

June 5, 2008 — Despite eBay Inc.’s announcement exactly one year ago today of a global ban on all international trade in elephant ivory, investigators with IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare; www.ifaw.org) have found that auctions of illegal or potentially illegal ivory have skyrocketed on eBay in the U.S. Further, eBay Canada faces persistent challenges as U.S.-based sellers of ivory list their contraband on the Canadian site. This increase in North American eBay ivory auctions is in stark contrast to a large reduction of such activity in some foreign countries where eBay affiliates have severely restricted or banned the trade in ivory completely.

Craigslist's Response To eBay: We Had To Do It!

After eBay sued Craigslist, Craigslist's initial responses were rather weak. eBay made a pretty strong case arguing that Craigslist's board had unilaterally diluted eBay's shares -- which seems pretty questionable. Craigslist initially shot back by accusing eBay of doing the same things eBay was accusing Craigslist of doing -- but that was somewhat misleading. eBay wasn't complaining about the specific actions Craigslist was taking -- but the fact that they had done so unilaterally, despite eBay's ownership stake and board position. Then, Craigslist countersued eBay with a laundry list of charges that effectively amounted to "we don't like them being on our board." Both of these responses were a bit disappointing. While I like Craigslist, and respect Craig and Jim, they still hadn't explained why it was legal for them to unilaterally dilu

Competing With Keywords Increases Your Ebay Sales!

Ebay is the largest and most popular online marketplace on earth! And with this, it is only obvious that ebay is highly competitive, for both the Ebay buyers as well as for Ebay sellers. With millions of entries in the eBay store, it is necessary to use appropriate keywords to manage the store. A keyword is nothing but a significant word in the title or description of an item. Therefore, keywords used in the listing needs to be directly relevant to the items being sold. The right keywords will result in your item being pulled up more often by ebay search, the wrong keyword would result in your item being virtually invisible!

EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly

An anonymous reader writes "eBay's has lost its fight to ban all payment methods except PayPal. When Paypal originally announced the scheme it was to be global, but they began with a dry run in Australia to test the reaction of government and consumer authorities. In the public slanging match that followed between eBay and the regulatory ACCC, eBay spammed users claiming it was fighting for 'safety benefits for consumers.' Fortunately the consumers won. Conceded eBay vice president Simon Smith, 'While we disagree with the ACCC's draft notice, we have decided to withdraw the notification to stop any further confusion and disruption among the eBay community.' Nevertheless eBay insists PayPal is now always offered as a payment option. Have big corporations finally learned that they can go too far? More chillingly, if eBay had launched the sc

EBay ends Media Marketplace experiment

San Jose's eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) was trying to broaden its business with its online Media Marketplace where advertisers could propose buying airtime from media companies, or at least initiate negotiations. Unlike eBay's core business, Media Marketplace was not auction-based.

Trade Secrets and NDAs

Trade secrets are confidential business information that have value because they are not generally known and are the subject of efforts by the business to keep the information confidential. The most well known example of a trade secret is the formula for Coke. Every company, however, has trade secrets (e.g., customer lists, source code for software, methods of creating products, etc.). Every state has enacted laws to protect trade secrets. There are also federal laws that provide additional protection for trade secrets by way of severe civil and criminal penalties for theft or other misappropriation of trade secrets.

eBay to launch WorldofGood.com

This summer, eBay plans to help launch WorldofGood.com, a marketplace for buying fair-trade products, to the public, in partnership with fair-trade company World of Good, Inc.

eBay v. Craigslist: a tale of secret meetings, "obsessions"

Execs at Craigslist felt threatened by eBay and made calculated moves to reduce eBay's equity and decision-making powers in the company, according to eBay's newly-unsealed lawsuit (PDF). eBay says that Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster and founder Craig Newmark "breached their fiduciary duties of care, loyalty, and good faith by implementing certain self-dealing transactions... which were designed specifically to benefit themselves to the detriment of eBay." eBay is asking that the courts rescind or declare void the decisions made by Buckmaster and Newmark, and seeks recissory damages, attorney's fees, and other costs involved in filing the suit.

Los Angeles, Orange County Among Top 10 eBay Markets

Online auction site eBay released their list of the most active markets for the site Thursday, reporting that both Los Angeles-Long Beach and Orange County were among the top 10 markets for the firm. According to eBay, the Los Angeles-Long Beach area ranked number one in the U.S. for eBay sales, selling $1.3 billion dollars in items on the site last year; Orange County ranked sixth in the nation for eBay sales, with over $636M in sales for last year. Other top markets for eBay sales were New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Washington D.C., Houston, Nassau-Suffolk, New York, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. eBay reported that Los Angeles residents sold 24,051,645 items worth $1,396,037,518 last year, and Orange County residents sold 6,945,490 items worth $636,654,084.

Optimism Remains Heavy on Downtrending eBay

Ahhh, the king of online shopping -- or maybe the Mecca of Internet auctioning -- is eBay (EBAY: View sentiment for EBAYsentiment, chart, options) . I am not going to act like I am a stranger to a website that is almost entirely devoted to the art of shopping (yes, art), but for those of you who may not be familiar with the eBay concept, it is an online marketplace for the sale of goods and services, online payment services, and online communications. It functions through more than just the popular eBay.com website; it also enables online commerce through kijiji, gumtree.com, loquo.com, opusforum, half.com, rent.com, and stubhub.com, among others. The communications segment of EBAY operates through Skype, which is software that allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet.

eBay Inc. (EBAY) sees heavy option activity in the midst of a broader-market pullback

The entire tech sector is dropping into the red this afternoon, pulled lower by broad-market weakness. One of the largest losers in the group this afternoon is online auctioneer eBay Inc. (EBAY: View sentiment for EBAYsentiment, chart, options) . However, this isn't a good enough reason for the drop – at least not in my eyes – so I went digging about to find some sort of news for the auction giant. One story I found was that PayPal's Pay Later credit service is now available for EBAY purchasers. As of yesterday, EBAY purchasers in the U.S. can take advantage of Pay Later's financing offer of no payments for 90 days for qualifying purchases between $50 and $199. While this is great news for me and my quest for an authentic 70's-era Bengals jersey (anyone have any leads for me?), I don't see this news as the reason the shares have dropped n

eBay Watch: Fab Fifteen for Profits Off eBay

This legendary auction phrase signals the end of bidding, but it can also be used to describe the unpredictable nature of online auction sites. Many of these "smaller than eBay" alternative sites were started by well-intentioned eBay sellers wanting to give others what they missed at eBay — a fair and community-focused auction site that wouldn't eat up profits in fees.

eBay Inc. Reveals the 10 U.S. Markets Selling the Most on eBay

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is known for more than just its hot beaches: It's also one of the hottest locations for Americans selling goods on eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY). The fun-in-the-sun vacation destination is a top-10 selling market(1) for the online retailer, with residents there generating over $630 million in gross merchandise volume (GMV) or sales last year, according to a study of eBay marketplace activity across the United States.

EBay Launches Fair-Trade Site

Fair-trade, the concept of giving indigenous people and foreign workers a reasonable price for their goods and services is a hot new concept. In the past, America, Europe, and the rest of the industrialized world have taken advantage of the fact that in many third world countries labor and resources are cheap.

Craigslist Countersuit: eBay Stole Trade Secrets

Craigslist filed a countersuit against eBay, challenging the latter’s allegations that Craigslist discriminated against eBay as a shareholder, and alleging that eBay used its minority stake in Craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets and launch competitor Kijiji.

craigslist Countersuit: eBay Stole Trade Secrets

craigslist filed a countersuit against eBay, challenging the latter’s allegations that craigslist discriminated against eBay as a shareholder, and alleging that eBay used its minority stake in craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets for the launch of Kijiji, MediaBuyerPlanner writes.

First look: Wigix puts eBay in online marketplace crosshairs

The online marketplace for selling products is dominated by the old guard in the form of eBay, and the free guard with Craigslist. While there are plenty of other venues at which you can buy and sell goods from other individuals, newcomer Wigix mixes a little bit of Amazon, eBay, and crowdsourcing Web 2.0 tools to present a new kind of marketplace. Ars Technica browses through Wigix's aisles to see if it's a new chance for users to get rich off all those old baseball cards in the attic.

eBay Opens Its Doors to Third-Party Developers, Scores Upgrade from Stifel Nicolaus

eBay (EBAY: sentiment, chart, options) shares are just fractionally higher at midday after the online auctioneer was upgraded from "hold" to "buy" at Stifel Nicolaus. Analyst Scott Devitt issued the upgrade and reiterated his $35 price target. Devitt cited eBay's recent initiatives to improve trust between buyers and sellers, as well as recently revamped search technology on eBay.com. In a note to clients, he said, "The more trust, the higher the price for the same widget and the more successful the marketplace."

eBay Roadmap Creates Fast Lane for Large Sellers

eBay's Product Roadmap reveals eBay's intention to make it easier for large merchants to conduct business on the site. At its recent Developer's Conference in Chicago, eBay announced its Web Services would provide better API and business process support for large sellers. Merchants will be able to manage their entire business without going to My eBay and will be able to organize information by SKU instead of ItemID. eBay also promised faster processing and fewer timeouts with asynchronous bulk interface.

eBay UK Makes Gallery Free for the Summer

eBay UK told users they could use the optional Gallery feature for free in a special summer-time promotion. From May 19 through September 30, the gallery picture listing upgrade on eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie will be free. (eBay made Gallery free for sellers on the US eBay.com website earlier this year.) All other fees apply, see website for details and restrictions.

EBay to Open up Merchant Tool to Developers

EBay will open a tool used by 700,000 of its merchants to external developers, the next step in an ongoing effort to promote the creation of applications for its online marketplace. For the first time, eBay will feature third-party applications within Selling Manager, a tool merchants use to manage their eBay listings, the company plans to announce Monday at its annual eBay Developers Conference in Chicago.

eBay Motors Experiencing Slump in Auto Demand

There is no doubt EBAY Motors has been an incredible success story for EBAY. In 2007, EBAY Motors GMV totalled $17.5B, representing an astounding 29.6% of EBAY's overall GMV. This makes EBAY Motors roughly 3x the size of the next largest category by GMV, Consumer Electronics.

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