Online auctioneer set for Xmas rush

November 30, 2009 · Filed Under eBay News, Internet Marketing, Online Shopping · Comment 

[picappgallerysingle id="3257266"]On-line auction house Ebay was expecting early bird shoppers to steal a march on the Christmas shopping rush by flocking to the website on Sunday.

Many internet retailers are expecting their busiest day of trading on Monday but Ebay was bracing itself for a surge of 5 million visitors on Sunday.

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MicroPlace – Help People To Help Themselves Out Of Poverty

November 30, 2009 · Filed Under eBay News · Comment 

MicroPlace (www.microplace.com ), a PayPal company launched in 2007, is a social business that enables everyday people to invest in the world’s working poor.

The organization, whose mission is to alleviate global poverty, facilitates online investments in microfinance that have proven to be an effective way of transforming people on the margins of society into economically productive individuals.

MicroPlace is championing a model that fuses people’s desire to be philanthropic with the efficacy of investing to raise microfinance capital. MicroPlace is a wholly-owned subsidiary of eBay, Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY).

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eBay Black Friday’s Sales Map

November 30, 2009 · Filed Under eBay News, Online Shopping · Comment 

eBay has created a transaction map of the United States that spans the duration of Black Friday’s shopping activity on the site. The map is a visualization of U.S.-based buyer and seller transactions over that 24-hour period.

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