The following interview with Steve Yankovich, eBay VP of Mobile Solutions, ran on Fox Business News earlier this morning. In it, Steve discusses the ease of use of mobile applications and the influence they’re ultimately having on ecommerce and online retail. Enjoy! Cheers, RBH Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com  Read More →

Introducing eBay Classifieds Pets I saw another eBay mobile app released late last week. (The list of eBay mobile apps just keeps on growing!). This one is targeted at animal lovers for sure. The eBay Classifieds Pets iPhone app was released on iTunes on Friday. With the new eBay Classifies Pets iPhone app you can: • View all available pets in a big picture slide show • Create saved searches and choose custom icons • Search by any combination... 

Check out this quick, concise and informative video demo from @ebay_andy showing, in less than 4 minutes, how to edit eBay condition ID using File Exchange. A huge thank to Andy for submitting to eBay Ink. Cheers! Here’s a quick written tutorial too: Select Create a Download Request. Select Active from the Listings and Records Drop Down. Leave the download format as standard, and leave the date range as all active listings. The email address…  Read More →

All, In addition to releasing the eBay application for Android internationally earlier today, eBay also announced the international release of the eBay Selling application and the eBay for iPad app . The Selling application is now available in Germany and the United Kingdom, and the eBay for iPad application is now translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish for international users and is currently available through all of Apple’s iTunes... 

The eBay Application for Android is now available in three additional countries: Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The new, updated app includes the ability for immediate checkout through PayPal, and voice search capabilities unique to the Android platform. The free eBay application for Android includes features such as: * Buyer alerts – Stay up to date on the status of auctions and watched items with timely alerts * …  Read More →

The following was just posted over on the eBay AdCommerce blog : In order to focus on the best selling and shopping experience, the specific AdCommerce program that allowed eBay sellers to purchase pay-per-click advertisements on search result pages linking to their eBay stores and listings will be retired for eBay.com and eBay.ca as of August 4, 2010. The service will …  Read More →

It has been 3 years since eBay Classifieds launched in the U.S. and to mark the occasion they’ve launched their own blog . Good stuff! Here are some fun stats listed from today’s blog entry … • Three years ago we had just a couple hundred thousand visitors. Today we have over 5 million. What a birthday party! • We started out with just a few thousand ads back in 2007, now we have nearly 1 million. Keep them coming! •... 

In addition to covering some of the eBay DevCon sessions live on Twitter, I’ve also been capturing some interviews with folks here at the event. Here is the first of a few videos taken over the 48-hour event. Enjoy! Cheers, RBH ( Apologies for the background noise on this one. We found a quiet room to conduct the rest after this initial interview ):  Read More →

eBay announced the winners of the 2010 Star Developer Awards this morning. The awards recognize third-party developers who have driven innovative solutions that help streamline the selling process on eBay . 2010 award winners include: eCommSource™ by Cloud Conversion™ , a complete customer relationship management (CRM) solution that enables eBay sellers around the world to manage all customer service operations from a single salesforce.com... 

eBay introduced eBay Fashion today, a new enhanced shopping experience for clothing, shoes and accessories on eBay . I sat down with eBay Pop Culture expert, Karen Bard, to talk a little more about today’s news… New functionality and navigation enables shoppers to browse and explore more than 19 million average daily listings. Some of the enhanced features include: * NEW Browsing Capabilities: One click and you’re shopping. Shoppers... 

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruled that eBay is meeting its responsibilities in fighting counterfeiting under trademark law earlier today. This decision affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of eBay. Michael R. Jacobson, eBay general counsel, was quoted, saying: “The decision is a critically important victory for online consumers who want the best prices for genuine products and underscores eBay’s commitment to connecting... 

eBay launched two new iPhone selling apps today. One for the eBay.com global marketplace and one for eBay’s new classifieds site, ebayclassifieds.com . Learn more about the new eBay Classifieds site HERE . Learn more about the new eBay Classifieds iPhone Application HERE . The eBay Selling iPhone application lets sellers list items for sale in less than 60 seconds and is downloadable for free via iTunes . Check out a video demo here…... 

The second annual Social Innovation Awards were held in New York City last night and eBay’s Green Team received the social innovator award for employee engagement. The event – which recognizes corporations and nonprofits for implementing groundbreaking business strategies and programs – is organized by JustMeans , an organization that bridges the worlds of social media and corporate responsibility, and the Financial Times…  Read More →

I was unable to make it down to SXSW this year which means I’m missing the keynote presentation by Twitter ’s Evan Williams. However, according to a post just made on the Twitter blog , a new Twitter development – called “ @anywhere ” – is coming soon to a handful of leading web sites including the eBay Marketplace . Something I believe @Ev is talking about right now…  Read More →

An update to the eBay Announcement Board went up yesterday afternoon that I wanted to share with folks: Improvements to the process when you open an unpaid item claim manually * If a buyer doesn’t pay and you cancel the transaction, the buyer will no longer be able to pay for the item. * If you open an unpaid item case, it will be closed automatically when the buyer pays using a safe electronic payment method such as PayPal or Moneybookers. The...