Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

August 30, 2008 6:33:05 CDT


Stories related to: John Donahoe

Stories

8 Stories

  • June 2008
    • Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust

      Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust

      (Newser) - Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon emerged from the dot-com bust as a mighty triumvirate, but only Amazon has kept its mojo in the decade's latter stages, the Economist reports. Yahoo, the oldest of the lot at 14, shooed away Microsoft, surrendered part of its business to Google, and failed to stay current. It survives, “but on the web’s equivalent of life support." More »

      Tags

      Internet   Google   Yahoo   eBay   Jerry Yang   Jeff Bezos   Amazon   John Donahoe

  • April 2008
  • March 2008
    • Can New CEO Keep eBay on Top?

      Can New CEO Keep eBay on Top?

      (Newser) - As John Donahoe takes over from Meg Whitman as CEO of eBay today, he inherits a grande dame where Whitman oversaw the rise of an e-commerce belle. Still dominant in online auctions, the company has nonetheless faced slowing growth and stiffening competition. But analysts think Donahoe, the former eBay Marketplace president, can hold the site's high bid on the market, USA Today reports. More »

      Tags

      Internet   eBay   Amazon.com   auction   Web 2.0   online auction   Meg Whitman   John Donahoe   e-commerce

  • January 2008
    • eBay Slashes Listing Fee in Half

      eBay Slashes Listing Fee in Half

      (Newser) - eBay is chopping its listing fee in half and will take a bigger chunk out of the price of sold items, a change that should lower risk for sellers and encourage more listing, the AP reports. The online auction giant is also changing the way its search results work, the company announced at a gathering today of its top 200 sellers: Negative feedback will hurt sellers’ placement. More »

      Tags

      eBay   Amazon.com   online auction   web traffic   Meg Whitman   John Donahoe   e commerce

    • eBay Names CEO From Its Own Ranks

      eBay Names CEO From Its Own Ranks

      (Newser) - EBay today named John Donahoe to replace Meg Whitman, who will retire in March, as CEO, the Wall Street Journal reports. Donahoe’s ascension from president of the firm's auction business comes as the company is attempting to transform that aspect of its operations, which provides two-thirds of eBay’s annual revenue of $6 billion—but has been growing more slowly in recent years. More »

      Tags

      eBay   Amazon.com   Meg Whitman   John Donahoe

    • EBay Honcho Whitman to Step Down

      EBay Honcho Whitman to Step Down

      (Newser) - Meg Whitman is getting ready step down as eBay chief executive, the Wall Street Journal reports. She has been delegating more of her responsibilities, insiders tell the Journal ,  and preparing for a successor to take charge. Whitman has been at the helm of eBay for almost a decade, a particularly long time for Silicon Valley. More »

      Tags

      eBay   online auction   Meg Whitman   John Donahoe

  • December 2007
    • New Era at eBay Includes Absent CEO, Turmoil

      New Era at eBay Includes Absent CEO, Turmoil

      (Newser) - Online auction site eBay is sailing into new, perhaps troubled waters, reports Wired , as users write angry letters to newspapers, its CEO-in-waiting--John Donahoe--disses the site as a flea market, and CEO and founder Meg Whitman follows the campaign trail behind presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. Yet, in a down market, its shares are up 6% on the year. More »

      Tags

      Mitt Romney   eBay   Skype   Meg Whitman   John Donahoe

8 Stories

Today's Most Popular

Premium Articles from HighBeam

Find more articles like this

What is Newser?

2008 Codie Finalist

Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinion—politics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.

Learn more »