PayPal reported a stronger fourth-quarter performance than its former owner eBay after the breakup last year. It grew revenue 21 percent FX-neutral to $2.6 billion, and it announced a $2 billion stock repurchase program. In a press release, PayPal CEO Read more
eBay grew its total Gross Merchandise Volume and revenue by 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, year-over-year. And while its StubHub and Classifieds businesses did well, eBay Marketplace GMV grew 4 percent, while revenue growth was nearly flat Read more
Yahoo Stores were pushed over to separate servers and rebranded Aabaco in advance of a planned spinoff. New reports do nothing to lessen the uncertainty facing merchants who remain in limbo over their stores’ fate. Yahoo has been under pressure Read more
An Amazon customer says the company’s customer service reps divulged his information to a hacker who was able to use that data to trick his bank into issuing a new copy of his credit card. Tech publications are running wild Read more
Online merchants spent last week dealing with postal rate changes that were disruptive, to say the least, and now Etsy sellers are encountering a new wrinkle that could cost them time and energy. Etsy announced on Tuesday it was dealing Read more
A few months before eBay split with PayPal, former CEO John Donahoe implied Amazon might be interested in offering PayPal on its marketplace. But 6 months after the eBay-PayPal breakup, Amazon quashed the idea. Amazon Executive Patrick Gauthier told Cneton Monday, Read more
To many people it may seem more plausible to see Amazon expanding into food-delivery, drones, and cloud hosting services than into apparel and designer fashion, but according to a recent Wall Street analyst report, Clothing & Accessories is a category Read more
You can now purchase real gold bars on eBay that bear the eBay logo. The online marketplace has been fascinated with bullion going back to at least 2011, and now you can find eBay-branded gold and silver bars for sale Read more
Who hasn’t heard about longtime merchants getting booted from Amazon for offenses that can range from the obvious to the puzzling? Seller suspensions have been on the rise since last year when Amazon changed its suspension algorithm, adding to seller Read more
eBay is running a special free-listing promotion for UK sellers in which it is also capping commission fees. The 2-day sale kicked off on January 24th and allows invited sellers to list up to 100 listings and pay a maximum Read more
