eBay Inc. has reached a definitive agreement to acquire WHI Solutions, a provider of software and digital catalog solutions for auto parts distributors and retailers. […]
eBay Buyers, Sellers Give Record $63 Million To Charity In 2011 eBay enabled its users to give a record $63 million, or $120 a minute to charitable causes last year. The PayPal division also processed $3 billion in transactions for more than 200,000 nonprofits. eBay launched the celebrity page in early November, which recently included […]
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of posts about small businesses on Google+ and their tips and tricks for managing a great page. Visit our YouTube channel to see all the videos in this series and join the discussion on the Google+ Your Business page. Recently we introduced you to Best Made Company, a group of outdoor enthusiasts that specializes […]
Editor’s Note: TalkBin enables customers to send mobile messages to business owners in real-time, like a digital comment card. To learn more, visit talkbin.com. The pace of life for a small business owner is unrelenting. Just ask Patama Roj, co-founder and owner of Fraiche, a company based in Palo Alto, California that serves homemade organic fresh and froze […]
Managing your business, even if it's a real-world store with a physical address, is increasingly moving into the online space. With that comes the need to maintain good online security practices to protect both your own information and that of your customers. Behind your password lies a wealth of data that can be very interesting to your competitors and […]
There’s nothing quite like talking to your customers face to face—being able to hear their feedback and questions directly, and strengthening those relationships. A message we come back to again and again on the Small Business Blog is the importance of connecting with and understanding your customers, whether you’re a small business or a company as large as […]
eBay has been exploring the potential benefits of incorporating peer-to-peer transport technologies into our network topology. We’ve begun to use BitTorrent for index distribution, and we’ll soon use it for build distribution as well. In this post, we discuss our experience with BitTorrent and the problem of package distribution within the enterprise environ […]
In the first part of this blog post, we outlined the problem of rapid development setup as well as the approaches that we have used at eBay to address the problem. We will now describe how we set up projects in the Eclipse IDE, which is well adopted at eBay for Java applications. Let’s start […]
Large development teams with a sizable code base have two conflicting needs: code sharing and rapid developer setup (agility). Teams who are working on different features need to modify common projects and source elements. While code ownership helps, members of the same team invariably need to touch the same components across different features – or […]