eBay on Tuesday said it had named a new chief financial officer, slated to start work on March 16. Robert "Bob"
Swan, who has been serving as CFO and executive vice president of leading computer services firm Electronic Data Systems, will report directly to CEO Meg Whitman at the online auction giant's San Jose headquarters.
Swan spent 14 years overseeing finances within various divisions of General Electric and recorded a two-year stint at the start-up Webvan, an online grocer that went bankrupt in 2001. At eBay, he will replace Rajiv Dutta, who served as CFO for the last five years, as he takes over as president of online voice provider Skype, which eBay snapped up last fall in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.
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The Silicon Valley online payments startup grew by 1,000 percent last year and is hopeful it can repeat that level of growth this year. To do that, it's had to move away from its early friends-and-family roots and embrace small businesses.
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EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
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