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E-commerce giant eBay will slash 2,400 jobs in the current quarter as it restructures and prepares to spin off its PayPal finance unit.

• 22 января 2015, 15:26

US online retail giant eBay unveiled plans to spin off PayPal, aiming to help the unit compete better in the fast-moving online payments segment.

• 01 октября 2014, 14:24

A near-flawless edition of the first book featuring cartoon hero Superman from June 1938 has fetched $3.2 million at auction.

• 26 августа 2014, 10:43

Facebook announced Monday it hired the top executive of eBay's PayPal division to lead the social network's efforts to boost its mobile messaging.

• 11 июня 2014, 10:10

US online giant eBay announced Thursday the launch of Spanish and Portuguese versions of its popular auction and shopping website, hoping to boost its presence in growing Latin American markets.

• 16 мая 2014, 14:00

EBay said Wednesday that activist investor Carl Icahn had taken a stake in the online retailer and was seeking a spinoff of its PayPal financial payments unit.

• 23 января 2014, 11:46

A painting by George Zimmerman, whose fatal 2012 shooting of a black teenager triggered an outcry across the United States, sold for just over $100,000 on eBay.

• 24 декабря 2013, 18:31

An original copy of the list of Jews Oskar Schindler saved from the Holocaust is up for sale on eBay, with the starting bid set at $3 million dollars.

• 20 июля 2013, 12:24

A tea kettle which some think resembles Adolf Hitler has soared in price to over $200 on eBay, after it sold out online following protests over a billboard promoting the otherwise innocent product.

• 31 мая 2013, 12:41

Online auction giant eBay has banned the sale of dolls linked to Quentin Tarantino's blood-soaked western about a freed slave "Django Unchained," describing them as "offensive".

• 27 января 2013, 14:41

Big technology firms including Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon have joined to create a new lobby group aimed at promoting "an open, innovative and free Internet."

• 26 июля 2012, 17:11

EBay-owned online financial transactions titan PayPal on Tuesday announced that it has bought a San Francisco startup focused on using smartphone cameras to take credit card payments.

• 18 июля 2012, 14:52