The theory is that all the discussion will encourage more use of eBay's services and reduce its customer-support costs.
There is some evidence in PayPal's numbers that speak to the company having continued to grow its business independent of eBay: merchant services were volume up 27% while interestingly on eBay volume it was down 1%.
Additional special values from eBay service providers.
While the PayPal service of eBay has attracted widespread use, it offers additional features like the ability to transfer money from checking accounts.
The firm makes most of its money by selling virtual goods (a dress for an avatar, a weapon in an online game) for play money that users buy with real cash.Similarly, Taobao, which is owned by Alibaba, was launched to compete with the Chinese service of eBay, an auction site.
That's because the industry is changing rapidly and Skype, a service of eBay, or another competitor, may take a bite out of Vonage, like Vonage plans to take a bite out of traditional phone companies.
Raji Dutta, formerly eBay's chief financial officer and currently head of eBay's Internet-based phone service, Skype, will replace Jordan at PayPal's helm.
The service originally grew out of eBay's then lesser-known eBay Sell For Me service, when it launched under the "eBay Valet" brand on iPhone last summer.
EBay this morning announced it's expanding the capabilities of its eBay Authenticate service — its luxury goods verification program — to now include luxury jewelry.
PayPal, a payments giant which is currently being spun out of eBay, is now offering a similar service to its merchants.An invoice worth its weight in goldSmall businesses would love to be able to monetise what is often one of their biggest assets: the money customers owe them.
