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eBay Bets on Social Commerce With Acquisition of the Gifts Project

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on September 8, 2011 at 5:58 am PT

EBay is announcing this morning that it has bought a company to bolster its efforts in social commerce.

Exclusive: Independent App Store Appia Brings on Craig Forman as Chairman

Ina Fried in Mobile on September 7, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Though not all that well known, Appia powers app stores for a variety of big-name carriers and handset makers.

AT&T Subsidiary Creates AdMob Competitor That Is Local

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 11, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

A subsidiary of AT&T known best for its yellow-pages products is launching a mobile ad network that will go head to head against Apple’s iAd and Google’s AdMob.

EBay Hires Ex-Yahoo Exec Don Bradford to Head Up Social

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 5, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

Ebay has hired Don Bradford to fill a new position at the company in charge of leading its social commerce efforts.

PayPal Acquisition Hints at Company's Approach to the Mobile Wallet

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 28, 2011 at 10:42 pm PT

EBay-owned PayPal said in February it will conduct several pilot programs over the next year to enable consumers to use their PayPal accounts–at the register. Today, it announced an acquisition that may help them get there.

EBay's Revenues Jump 16 Percent in Q1 With PayPal's Help

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 27, 2011 at 1:32 pm PT

Fueled by its PayPal division, eBay reported first-quarter results today that exceeded expectations. Revenues jumped 16 percent to $2.5 billion, compared to the same period a year ago, and profits soared by 20 percent to total $475.9 million, or 36 cents a share.

eBay Continues Shopping Spree With Acquisition of Where

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 20, 2011 at 6:58 am PT

eBay has acquired Where as the company continues to develop ways to link online retail with physical retail through mobile.

Apple iPhone Apps: Fast-Growing but Not Quite Fast Enough for the ADD Set

Kara Swisher in News on August 11, 2008 at 3:47 pm PT

Someone get a dose of Ritalin stat to the noisy but deeply misguided critics who took news of a huge number of downloads of apps for the Apple iPhone and immediately concluded it was just not good enough. Thus, as reported today in The Wall Street Journal, 60 million downloads in 30 days–mostly for free apps, but with about $30 million in revenue, and a runway of three million more new iPhones out there too–is a chance to talk about how it all is just so unexciting and how the apps market is officially saturated? Am I missing something here? One would assume that were these pundits pioneers, they would get to Ohio and declare that going farther west held very little promise, thank you very much!

All Grown Up: Apple Apps Are for Adults (There, We Said It)

Kara Swisher in News on July 21, 2008 at 8:26 am PT

When Apple releases its third-quarter earnings after the close today, Wall Street will be looking hard for a solid performance from the company to help buoy a tech sector smacked silly by weak reports from industry leaders Microsoft and Google last week. But more important to me is what is happening with the plethora of third-party apps now available on the iTunes App Store–both free and paid–for use on the iPhone platform. That’s because Apple has finally built a platform for adults.