eBay is no stranger to sending batch-and-blast emails-for years, that was the company’s primary email strategy. But as customer expectations grew, the strategy-and the technology that supports it-had to mature. Alex Weinstein, director of marketing technology and CRM at eBay, spoke with eMarketer about how the company built its own personalization platform.
A perspective buyer can even run all of the necessary checks and, of course, the car will come up clean. Upon "winning" the bid, the seller asks for cash on collection, instead of an eBay secure payment. Thinking everything is all good, the buyer complies and ends up with a stolen vehicle.
GET YOUR KICKS Amy was inspired to have a go at making some money after seeing other people get cash for worn shoes, but wasn't quite as lucky... A BROKE student hoped to make some quick cash selling old shoes on eBay but instead "couldn't stop laughing" when the only person to respond asked to worship her feet.
eBay offers faster search for those shoppers who visit using mobile devices thanks to new technology. eBay is expanding its adoption of so-called AMP technology to product pages and said its mobile platform remains a priority.
A former employee of the National Institutes of Health pleaded guilty Wednesday to theft of government property. Christopher Dame, 50, admitted storing equipment he took from the agency in storage units in Montgomery County, Maryland, and selling them on eBay.
Two weeks ago, shares of online artisan outlet Etsy (NASDAQ: ETSY) plunged in the wake of a disappointing first quarter report as well as a concerning replacement of its CEO. While it had become clear that Chad Dickerson wasn't the right person to be at the helm, it wasn't clear Josh Silverman would fare any better.
Investors who have been following the financial results of e-commerce platform ( eBay Inc. NASDAQ:EBAY) may be tempted to sing the company's praises. And why not? eBay produced a record fourth quarter for 2016, delivering quarterly revenue of $2.4 billion and earnings of $5.31 per share.
In 2003, Tanya Crew was a financially struggling single mom earning a computer science degree at the University of California at Irvine. She and her then-13-year-old son were surviving on $16,000 in educational grants while she completed her studies.
The original Hollywood sign sold for $450,000 in 2005. While most people only know 'the' Hollywood sign that currently resides in Los Angeles, there are in fact two of them. The first one, installed in 1923 to promote real estate development in Los Angeles, deteriorated so badly that by the late 1970s it read 'HULLYWOD' instead of 'HOLLYWOOD'.
One of the world's largest enterprises intends to contribute its formula for OpenStack and Kubernetes management to the open source community next quarter. E-commerce titan eBay Inc. has one of the world's largest OpenStack private clouds.