Online auction site eBay Inc. said Monday it will institute a global ban on the sale of all ivory products starting next year.
The ban, announced on the company’s blog eBay Ink, sought to ensure the protection of African and Asian elephants, eBay blogger Richard Brewer-Hay wrote.
He said he had recently been at a meeting to [...]

For the first time in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history, a major sponsorship of a race car is being made available on eBay.
Folllowing in the recent tradition of such mega pop culture offerings as ACDC’s old tour bus, Charlie Sheen’s home gym and a date at a movie premiere with superstar Scarlett Johansson — not [...]

Bill Me Later, the online payment business, has agreed to an offer from online auctioneers eBay for $945 million. eBay will pay $820 million in cash to acquire the company’s capital stock and warrants plus $125 million to assume Bill Me Later’s outstanding employee stock options.
Mark Lavelle, vice president of corporate development and strategy for [...]

EBay Inc. said on Monday it will cut about 1,000 employees, reducing its work force by about 10 percent.
The online auction site also said it will get rid of several hundred temporary workers. EBay said the reductions would streamline its organization.

HammerTap, a leader in eBay market research, is offering a free webinar Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 6 p.m. MDT, on how eBay sellers can successfully avoid profit-damaging price wars in these tight economic times. The webinar is open to all eBay sellers.
The webinar will feature HammerTap software, but is open to all eBay sellers [...]