Do you know who won the US Masters (golf) in 2012? This photo I took earlier today is a clue, and it’s not Devin Wenig on the left (President of Global Ebay Marketplaces). Want a not so subtle clue? Try reading here. Ok, lets get a blatant name drop in! Bubba Watson dropped in on […]
Ebay has been doing a lot of work in more efficient data centers. Just announced is work for a new data center that will be offsetting 100% of the carbon foot print. See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/technology/ebay-plans-data-center-that-will-use-alternative-energy.html?_r=2 for details.
You can use your PayPal account now at a number of department stores. But when I tried it failed. What I had missed is you have to enable your account first. It took me a little while to find it, so I thought I would share the URL – http://www.paypal.com/anywhere. You can use your phone […]
I am no share market expert, but as an employee and shareholder I certainly hope this estimation is right! 😉
While I am still (relatively) new to eBay, I can see eBay has been, and is continuing to, change into a technology company. That is, more and more focus is being put on technology as a means to enable innovation rather than just a means to keep the business running. Lots of work has been […]
I am completely biased of course working for eBay, but I liked this article a friend pointed out. Sounds better than Facebook! Ok, so that is not hard at the moment. Being rated as a better buy than Amazon was nice though.
Hugh Williams (disclaimer: my boss) has been posting a series on ranking. Part 3 talked about testing new ranking formulas including the unfortunate fact that some people may see their items get lower rankings than before. This negative stood out a little for me so I thought I would comment on it as to why […]
Being from Australia, I just came across a few articles talking about eBay in Australia. There was an Online Business Index released in March 2012 that I suspect triggered a small flurry of articles. For example: eBay sellers lack mobile commerce know-how at startupsmart.com.au More Aussie businesses want to go mobile at news.com.au E-tailing beast the […]
Wow. Last night I got to attend a panel session and dinner with the eBay board. Everyone in the room had to get up and say who they were and how long at eBay. It struck me then it was 6 months already! Doesn’t time fly. The eBay board by the way I found to […]
The move with family to Silicon Valley to take up a position at eBay has been full on. Diving into work, which has been pretty fun to be honest. Lots of good people, lots of challenges, (lots of positions to be filled!!!) Interesting to see that programmers here are just like back home in Australia. […]
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