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ISSUE: November 15, 2009

Articles about eBay

Ebay's Winning Bidder - 4-15-2002

CEO Meg Whitman bet that listening to customers could turn eBays electronic white elephant sale into a Web powerhouse. Now her company is profiting and growing even as the economy slumps.

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... meg whitman: eBay operates one of the most technologically...

...We''ve assembled an outstanding IT team within eBay, and our vendor list is a roll call of the...

...system, which we call V3. This will allow eBay to [split its database into chunks and...

The New Way To Ebay - 10-1-2004

So you want to sell on eBay, but don’t want to photograph your tchotchkes, write clever pitches, track bids, answer queries, and deal with shipping? No problem. Just take Aunt May’s Bing Crosby 78s to one of the many eBay storefronts sprin...

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...you want to sell on eBay, but don’t want to photograph your...

...Bing Crosby 78s to one of the many eBay storefronts springing up around the country. For...

...say the storefronts are a logical outgrowth of eBay’s Trading Assistants program, in which...

Breakthrough - 6-1-2002

PAYPAL’S PROMISE: DIGITAL DOLLARS Can a company have 15 million customers and still be virtually unknown? Apparen'tly so, if the company is PayPal. Even a boffo IPO last February — priced at $12, the stock closed at $20.09 the first d...

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... of PayPal’s 2001 transactions came via eBay and other auction sites. Not surprisingly, eBay...

...eBay and other auction sites. Not surprisingly, eBay pushes its own payment service, Billpoint. And...

Score a High-Tech Bargain - 10-15-2009

A guide to buying and selling used electronics

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... for pre-owned gizmos) and by online vendors like eBay and Craigslist, your next high-tech obsession...

...in the product. Watch out for cheap deals on eBay. KNOW HOW AND WHERE TO BUY Retailers like...

Worth Repeating - 10-1-2001

"We’re Switzerland; we want to work with all parties." — EBAY President and CEO Meg Whitman,quoted in the Wall Street Journal refusing to takes sides in the AOL-Microsoft battle for Internet dominance.

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...we want to work with all parties." — eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman ,quoted in the...

Executive Reading - 2-15-2002

CHINA DAWN By David Sheff, Harperbusiness, $26.95 An entrepreneur profiled in this insider look at China’s technology revolution says, “The carp is leaping through the Dragon’s gate,” referring to the transformation of poor man to ric...

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... has shifted radically from investing in the next eBay or Amazon to nuts-and-bolts companies like...

Now That's Fast - 2-1-2003

SMS.ac Inc., based in San Diego, signed up nearly 6 million users in its first six months making it the fastest product launch in Internet history. The marketing budget? Zero. The service enables mobile phones to send and receive text...

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...to send and receive text messages. It took eBay more than two years to reach the 1-million-user...

Personal Profits - 4-1-2003

TREASURE IN THE ATTIC The COLLECTIBLES MARKET got a big boost recently when actor Nicolas Cage fetched $1.6 million by auctioning off more than 400 classic comic books. A 1938 Action #1 copy with the first appearance of...

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...blockbuster take, the soaring fortunes of eBay, and the popularity of PBS’s Antiques...

Worth Repeating - 11-15-2003

"Most of us say, ‘Man, we’ve got something special. Don’t screw it up.’ — eBay COO Maynard Webb, on the $32 billion company’s rampant growth.

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...screw it up.’ — eBay COO Maynard Webb , on the $32 billion...

Tech Titans, Take Two - 3-15-2004

Who says there are no second acts in American business? These four tech moguls have got it goin on again.WHO: Mitch Kapor OLD GIG: Founded Lotus Development and created Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet applicationNEW GIG: Runs Open Source Applications Foun...

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...PayPal, the online payment service he sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002 NEW GIG: CEO of...

Building “Economic Citizenship” - 5-15-2004

Roy Sosa cofounded Austin-based NetSpend, the nation’s largest prepaid debit card company (www.netspend.com).

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...have a credit or debit card, Amazon and eBay don’t exist for me. I can’t...

Billion $ Bound - 5-1-2006

David Thomson wanted to know the secrets of companies able to break the billion-dollar barrier (Don't we all?), so he spent three years analyzing the United States highest-growth companies for his new book, Blueprint to a Billion: 7 Essentials to Ach...

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...right strategy Aim to reshape the world (think eBay), reshape a niche (Starbucks), or stomp everyone...

A Guide to Sustainable Shopping - 4-15-2009

Model and green activist Summer Rayne Oakes wants the world to know that dressing green isn’t about burlap and Birkenstocks. In her new book, Style, Naturally (Chronicle Books, $25), she instructs the earnest on how to be fashion-conscious and environmentally conscious at the same time. Here are some of her shopping tips, plus some sources for eco-fashion.

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... a few shops you like and stop by often. Or troll eBay. Just be careful with sizes; pay attention to...

Managing The Edge - 8-15-2002

Futurist Watts Wackers new book shows how money and markets are made from "dangerous" ideas.

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...You can find dozens of Absolut items on eBay, which proves that, sometimes, advertising can...

Philanthropy 2.0 - 6-15-2001

Honchos at high-techs are writing a new chapter in charitable giving and tearing up some old rules in the process.

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... public donations of the megarich are well-known: eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, more than $4.2 billion...