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How PayPal Plans to Get Back on Top in Digital Payments
How PayPal Plans to Get Back on Top in Digital Payments After a lost decade, the newly independent company is making big investments again. During the gloomy spring of 2009, few tech companies were...
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Longtime eBay Lawyer Gets a New (Old) Job
Mike Jacobson, the lawyer who helped take eBay public and who remained the company’s general counsel until last summer, has rejoined Cooley as of counsel in its business department. He had been a...
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eBay Adds Lyft’s CEO to its Board
Online marketplace eBay has added Logan Green, the co-founder and CEO of ride sharing service Lyft, to its board. Green, 32, will become eBay’s twelfth and youngest, board member. For eBay, Green...
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eBay Is Working With This Used Car Sales Startup to Sell More Cars
Online used car sales startup Vroom relies on inventory, and eBay wants to inject new life into its own automotive business. Thus, the two companies announced a pilot program that could achieve both...
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Big Data Center Company Sues Nevada Regulators, Utility Over Solar Deal
The owner of some of the world’s largest data centers has sued Nevada regulators and that state’s utility over a solar energy deal that it says led to it being overcharged. Las Vegas-based data center...
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StubHub Just Bought a Ticket Software Company
eBay owned online ticketing site StubHub continues on its acquisition spree by buying Ticket Utils, a software company that helps large ticket sellers manage their inventories and online distribution....
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This Former eBay Executive Helps Stores Track Return Shoppers
One of Jack Abraham’s goals when he founded his startup Milo back in 2008 was helping bridge the gap between brick and mortar retailers and online search. His site, which he sold to eBay in 2010 for...
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EBay’s Shares Rise 5% on Modest Sales Gain
(Reuters) – Online retailer eBay reported better-than-expected quarterly revenue and raised its sales forecast for the year as efforts to revamp its online marketplace start to pay off. EBay shares...
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While Growth Stalls on eBay’s Marketplace, StubHub Skyrockets
A year after separating from PayPal, eBay has been unable to supercharge growth in its marketplace of used cars, designer jewelry, and second hand clothes. But the one bright spot in eBay’s business...
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Harry Potter Tickets Cost Over $10,000 in London
The theater show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has seen a magical amount of success. So much so that tickets to see just half the show are now selling for over ?8,000 ($10,535) in the United...
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Why the Circular Economy Matters
What do a biofuels entrepreneur, a Shanghai university professor, and a Washington D.C.-based software company all have in common? They’re all focused on what’s called the circular economy, an economy...
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Wheelwell Wants To Be The New Online Hub For Car Parts and Accessories
New and used auto parts and accessories is a booming business that accounted for $40 billion in sales last year. The market is so big, in fact, that a group of entrepreneurs believes that there’s...
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The Investment Firm From eBay’s Founder Funded This Data Outfit
The investment firm set up by eBay ebay founder Pierre Omidyar has put $1 million into a British startup called digi.me, which aims to give people an easy way to sell or share their own personal data....
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Why the Hybrid Cloud Is a Do-or-Die Scenario for Microsoft
Microsoft is again arguing that it offers the best way to let companies put some of their data and software up on a shared public cloud infrastructure while keeping other data completely under their...
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Silicon Valley Fuel Cell Maker Bloom Energy Has Secretly Filed For An IPO
Bloom Energy, a 15 year-old Silicon Valley-backed energy company, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Under a law enacted four...
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eBay Is Adding This Budding Tech to Boost Home Decor Business
eBay debuted a new way it plans to take on e-commerce giant Amazon on Monday, focusing on the home decor and accessories market. The online marketplace, which has 164 million active buyers according to...
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EBay’s Shares Tumble 8% On Weak Holiday Forecast
EBay forecast quarterly revenue and profit for the crucial holiday shopping season largely below market estimates, sending its shares down 8% in extended trading. The company forecast revenue of $2.36...
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Why Southern Company and Bloom Energy Are Combining Fuel Cells and Batteries
One of the biggest utilities in the U.S. and a Silicon Valley tech company are combing the latest in energy technology to sell a system that can both generate and store electricity onsite at a...
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Snapchat Spectacles Are Fetching $1,000 Or More on Ebay
In an early sign of high demand, sci-fi sunglasses from the parent company of Snapchat are selling for markups of 700% or more on eBay. The new Spectacles, stylish glasses that can record 10-second...
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This E-Commerce Power Just Netted $250 Million in Funding
Magento Commerce now has an impressive $250 million in new funding from Hillhouse, a Chinese investment firm. Hillhouse, one of China’s biggest investors, is led by chairman Zhang Lei, an early backer...
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