Ecommerce Industry News
eBay executive Chris Payne, who left the ecommerce site in December “to pursue a new business venture” has joined Tinder as CEO. Tinder is a mobile dating app that uses location-based data to connect users, […]
Executives who will take over as CEOs after eBay breaks up into two publicly-traded companies next year will be well compensated, according to filings with the SEC. eBay announced the breakup on Tuesday and said […]
eBay executive Mark Carges will receive health insurance through COBRA for up to 18 months after he officially steps down as Chief Technology Officer on November 3rd. A report filed with the SEC five days […]
eBay announced on Thursday its Chief Technology Officer Mark Carges was resigning to focus on a family matter. And while it has not named a replacement, it has hired someone to take over CTO duties […]
A 24-year veteran of Bain & Company has joined eBay as its Global Head of Strategy, helping to boost its gender diversity numbers. Kris Miller, who was a partner and also served on the board […]
eBay CEO John Donahoe is having a rough year, but got a piece of good news when Nike announced on Thursday it appointed him to its Board of Directors. Nike co-founder and chairman Philip Knight […]
VentureBeat says eBay executives fired PayPal president David Marcus “because his vision for the virtual-payment kingpin wasn’t working out,” a claim that eBay immediately refuted. In, “Resigned, my ass: PayPal president David Marcus was fired, […]
eBay CEO John Donahoe will find himself filling in again as head of PayPal after President David Marcus handed in his resignation. Marcus is leaving PayPal on June 27 and will head to Facebook to […]
Brian Burke will replace Rich Matsuura as eBay’s Director of Global Seller Trust after Matsuura left the company early this month. eBay spokesperson Ryan Moore confirmed the departure, telling EcommerceBytes, “Rich decided to leave eBay […]
A text-message exchange between a senior executive at GSI Commerce and his friend in 2011 before eBay acquired the company has been cited as evidence of insider trading in criminal charges filed by the government. […]