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eBay pins global e-commerce push on Skype and PayPal

BOSTON--eBay intends to expand into global e-commerce, in part by further integrating its Skype and PayPal acquisitions.

At its developer conference here on Wednesday, eBay hosted a talk with company founder and chairman Pierre Omidyar, investor and eBay director Robert Kagle, and eBay Markeplaces president John Donahoe.

Omidyar, who is now a philanthropist through the Omidyar Network, and Kagle, who made the initial venture investment in eBay, reflected on the events and ideas of online commerce and community that helped start the company.

All three executives said that eBay needs to extend its presence in different international markets and create … Read more

Video: eBay pitches widgets, social commerce to developers

E-commerce company eBay relies heavily on outside developers--about one quarter of the commerce conducted on eBay happens through third-party tools.

The company on Monday kicked off its developers conference in Boston where it laid out the latest programs to entice developers to build add-ons and tools around the eBay auctioning site.

During the morning keynote speech, eBay announced new application programming interfaces to build eBay applications and tools to make widgets to embed eBay auctions in other Web sites.

The company also showed off a new desktop client application, called Project San Dimas, which is meant to give buyers a … Read more

eBay developer conference: San Dimas desktop and APIs

BOSTON--eBay on Monday opened the doors to its developer conference, where the commerce giant announced a batch of new application-programming interfaces, or APIs, and showed off its new desktop application.

The company announced better-performing shopping Web services, an API for bidding on goods and a way to notify users about auctions through automated alerts.

In addition, the company is expected to demonstrate the desktop application for accessing eBay services, code-named the San Dimas project, during the morning keynote speech.

The software was built using Adobe's AIR platform which enables people to write applications with Web-based toolkits that operate like … Read more