Source: eBay As many of you may know, a new storm – Hurricane Wilma – has struck the state of Florida. Our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone impacted. Communication, shipping, and other buying and selling activities may be temporarily interrupted by the storm, so, we ask that you use patience if you have…

Source: USNews Meg Whitman leads by not leading, bosses by not bossing, and manages by not managing. And yet the 49-year-old CEO of eBay presides over a company that has been described as growing faster in its first decade than any other enterprise in the history of capitalism. Since Whitman joined eBay in early 1998,…

Source: eBay What is it? “it”, the new eBay brand campaign launched on October 20, 2005. “The campaign is designed to attract buyers by celebrating the extremely wide range of great things you can buy on eBay, just in time for the holiday shopping season,” writes Kevin McSpadden, eBay Brand Marketing Director. We’re looking to…

Source: BetaNews eBay CEO Meg Whitman went toe-to-toe with a financial analyst during the company’s quarterly earnings conference call over the purchase of VoIP provider Skype. Analysts have criticized the buy, saying eBay overpaid for a technology that, at least at first look, will not advance its core business. However, Whitman disagreed with that assessment….