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CEO John Donahoe Talks About What’s Next for eBay’s PayPal, After Scott Thompson’s Surprise Exit to Yahoo

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 4 at 10:08 pm PT

Now that Yahoo has nabbed PayPal President Scott Thompson from its crosstown Internet peer, there will be some shuffling to do in order to fill the gap he leaves behind at eBay.

PayPal, No Longer eBay's Little Cousin, May Seek Acquisitions for Growth (Video)

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 9, 2010 at 3:27 pm PT

PayPal was the little payments company that eBay purchased eight years ago, but now it has the potential to grow faster than its parent company. This week in San Jose, I had the chance to sit down with Sam Shrauger, PayPal’s VP of Global Product Strategy, to get the scoop on some of his pet projects, which are generating a lot of the new opportunities.

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Cellphones: Better Than Your Spouse and/or Alcohol

Andrew LaVallee, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 24, 2009 at 8:26 am PT

Two new surveys on cellphone use show that Americans love their handsets, possibly to the detriment of their spouses and social lives.

eBay Workforce High Bidder in Pink Slip Auction

John Paczkowski in News on October 6, 2008 at 7:23 am PT

The hammer has fallen at eBay. This morning the online auctioneer sacked about 1,000 permanent employees and a few hundred temps, about 10 percent of its workforce. That’s a bit less than the 1,500 workers for whom the company was rumored to be writing up pink slips, but it’s substantial just the same.