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Pictures from eBay Innovation Demo Expo 2010

By Richard Brewer-Hay

From left: John Donahoe, Srivathsan Canchi, Anand Gangadharan, Pierre Omidyar Demos in the Social Media & Finding and Internal Tools tent Demos in the Mobile App room To see all the photos from the event, click here. To view the video of the kickoff with Pierre and John, click here. Cheers, RBH »

VIDEO Behind the Scenes: eBay Innovation Demo Expo – Green Sort on Motors

By Richard Brewer-Hay

In the first of a series of behind-the-scenes videos from the demos on display at this week’s Innovation Demo Expo at eBay HQ, I got a quick overview of a proposal from eBay Motors by Danny Chang (@eBayMotors). Before jumping into the video, I want to make sure that folks realize that none of... »

VIDEO: Behind the Scenes at the Bloom Energy Launch event at eBay Inc.

By Richard Brewer-Hay

As you know I was lucky enough to attend the Bloom Energy launch event yesterday at eBay Inc. in-person. In addition to covering the event on Twitter, I managed to capture some of the proceedings with my Flipcam. I’ll update this page with additional clips as I upload them to our YouTube channel. Cheers, RBH »

eBay Hosts Unveiling of Groundbreaking New “Bloom Box” Fuel Cell

By Richard Brewer-Hay

This morning, eBay hosted the unveiling of a new, state-of-the-art technology at its PayPal campus in San Jose. It’s called the Bloom Energy Server (or “Bloom Box”), and some are saying it will revolutionize the world. Developed by Bloom Energy Corporation, the Bloom Energy Server is an SUV-sized box that corporations install outside their buildings... »

PayPal Now a Way to Pay for Facebook Ads & Facebook Credits

By Richard Brewer-Hay

PayPal is being introduced as a way to pay in two important areas of Facebook: Facebook Ads and Facebook Credits. According to the PayPal Blog: Advertisers around the world will soon be able to pay for Facebook Ads with PayPal… PayPal will also become a payment option for Facebook’s virtual currency, Facebook Credits, which is... »

eBay Android app is available for free at the Android Market

By Richard Brewer-Hay

The eBay Android app is now available for free at the Android Market and can be downloaded by searching “eBay” from the Android Market on your handset. In addition to traditional type search, the eBay application – like most Android apps – comes enabled with speech-to-text voice search. Simply tap the microphone button near... »

eBay Motors Launches New Car Shopping Experience

By Richard Brewer-Hay

eBay Motors today launched an online shopping experience for new vehicles, giving auto dealers and manufacturers an alternative channel to market inventory to local buyers. This new car option, powered by online auto-buying platform Zag, allows franchise dealers to target a highly-qualified group of local consumers ready to purchase a new vehicle in a... »

Behind the scenes with the eBay Garden Team

By Richard Brewer-Hay

You can see my initial coverage of the “Garden by eBay” by clicking HERE. Given the opportunity to spend some time with the entire team behind the eBay Garden project, I thought it would be great to capture some candid conversations about their time together, the project they’ve been working on, and what it means... »

eBay Plants “Garden” & Opens It Up To All. Meet the team behind it…

By Richard Brewer-Hay

eBay has launched a new initiative to help “sow the seeds of innovation” with community input on new products and features before they go live on the site. The “Garden by eBay” is a new area on eBay.com that allows community members to try out new products and features and give the team working... »

eBay Seller Release: Behind the Scenes

By Richard Brewer-Hay

All, I’m still answering specific questions through email and comments here on Ink but in the meantime, I wanted to share a little sneak peak into what is happening behind the scenes. In addition to our usual Customer Service call center and PR efforts around news like this, we have also established two dedicated Communications... »