Ecommerce Industry News
eBay’s sale of its Classifieds Group to Adevinta hit a snag last month due to regulators in the UK. The two companies agreed this week to sell three of their UK units – Shpock, Gumtree […]
A majority of sellers thought eBay should sell its ticket marketplace when we surveyed them in January, so this week’s news that eBay found a buyer for StubHub at a price tag of $4.05 billion […]
Activist investor Carl Icahn forced eBay to split with PayPal in July 2015, but in a survey conducted last month, a majority of sellers said they were not better off as a result of the […]
eBay released fourth-quarter earnings on Wednesday, and it didn’t do anything to dissuade the activist investor from targeting the company. For a refresher, see last week’s article, eBay Once Again in Crosshairs of Activist Investor. […]
eBay is once again in the crosshairs of an activist investor, this time Elliott Management, which said it “beneficially owns” over 4% of eBay, making it one of the company’s largest investors. The last time […]