Amazon launched a new service that helps educators and authors publish their own digital “textbooks” and other educational content that students can then access on Fire tablets, iPad, iPhone, Android smartphones and tablets, Mac, and PC. “Educators and authors can Read more
eBay is running a promotion in which all sellers can list up to 1,000 listings in the auction or fixed-price format. Unlike other promotions in recent years, this one includes all sellers, but it also restricts eligibility to new listings only. Read more
In true management-consultant style, former Bainie John Donhoe is chopping up the company he attempted to turn around after he inherited it from Meg Whitman in 2008. Last year, the eBay CEO capitulated to Carl Icahn’s demands that he separate Read more
eBay’s board not only capitulated to Carl Icahn’s demands last year that eBay separate the Marketplaces and Payments businesses, now it has signed an agreement giving in to additional demands. In its Q4-2014 earnings release on Wednesday, eBay revealed the Read more
eBay will lay off 2,400 employees, which is 7% of its workforce, the company revealed on Wednesday. The company is splitting its Marketplaces and Payments units into two separate companies later this year. After an abysmal quarter in terms of Read more
eBay Marketplaces had an abysmal fourth quarter, growing GMV a mere 2%, and eBay didn’t give its sellers much incentive to stick it out in the short term: executives told Wall Street things were going to get worse before they Read more
PayPal co-sponsored an event on online authentication – not product authentication with which merchants are familiar, but rather, the process by which websites authenticate users when they log in to their systems. It used the event to introduce the FIDO Read more
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but eBay is also attracted to the gemstones, and it’s working to bring on diamond sellers to its marketplace. While it may seem like good news to shoppers, existing sellers on eBay may Read more
The fact that a marketplace such as Amazon could have a glitch is not surprising to any experienced online seller – or anyone who uses computers, for that matter. But in thinking back to all the glitches that eBay and Read more
Etsy is adding transparency to its ad program for online sellers, called Promoted Listings, explaining it has received feedback that it’s difficult for sellers to see which of their listings are being advertised and which are not at any given Read more
