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The Steiners were targeted by former eBay employees in what their lawyers at Scalli Murphy Law described as a “terror campaign” intended to stop their reporting.

eBay (EBAY) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.

BOSTON (AP) — eBay Inc. agreed to pay almost $50 million to a Massachusetts couple who said former employees of the company targeted them with threats and bizarre anonymous deliveries — including live insects, a funeral wreath and a bloody pig Halloween mask, according to settlement details released Tuesday. The Steiners asked a federal judge in June to reopen the case, and a new settlement announced Tuesday resolves the litigation. The agreement with David and Ina Steiner, founders of EcommerceBytes, a newsletter covering the e-commerce industry, includes an additional $7 million in charitable donations, including to organizations supporting First Amendment rights.

Ina and David Steiner inspired the ire of high-level eBay executives after occasionally criticizing the company in their newsletter. In 2019, a plot was concocted to intimidate the couple into halting their negative coverage.

The payout resolves a 2021 civil lawsuit brought by newsletter publishers David and Ina Steiner over a 2019 campaign to silence their reporting

By Nate Raymond July 28 (Reuters) - EBay and three former top executives have agreed to pay $55.7 million to resolve a lawsuit by a Massachusetts couple who fell victim to a bizarre stalking and

Digital payments platform PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) reported Q2 CY2026 results topping the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 4.8% year on year to $8.68 billion. Its non-GAAP profit of $1.38 per share was 8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

Elon Musk built SpaceX and helped turn Tesla Inc. into an electric-vehicle giant while repeatedly working more than 100 hours a week, a schedule he has linked to vacations that went spectacularly wrong. Musk Builds Companies Through Relentless Workweeks After...

SHOP's subscription revenues jump 21% as Plus adoption, enterprise wins and AI tools deepen merchant engagement despite valuation concerns.

Meta has launched a dedicated Seller app for Facebook Marketplace, aimed at professional sellers. The app focuses on enhanced seller tools and potentially lower fees, directly challenging eBay's core seller base. This development introduces fresh competitive pressure on eBay's marketplace model and its high-margin seller segment. eBay, traded as NasdaqGS:EBAY, now faces a new competitor targeting the same professional sellers that are central to its marketplace model. The stock trades at...

eBay stock has delivered a very strong 156.1% return over the past three years, yet its valuation picture is split, with a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) estimate suggesting the shares trade below intrinsic value while market multiples point in the opposite direction. A 156.1% gain over three years highlights how strongly eBay has rewarded long term holders. The question now is whether that past return has already captured most of the value on offer. On the upside, recent moves such as the...

The online marketplace sent owners a fortune in cash, yet the stock itself struggled to keep pace. Here’s what the trade-off bought and what it means for holding now.

Meta Platforms is launching a dedicated app for sellers on Facebook Marketplace. Meta stock was a fraction lower early Friday while the news appeared to weigh on eBay shares. The new app will be called Seller, according to an announcement from Meta on Friday morning.

Investing.com - U.S. stock futures edged higher on Friday, recovering after a broad selloff in the previous session as investors weighed persistent geopolitical tensions in the Middle East against another wave of upbeat corporate earnings and artificial intelligence-related announcements.

Shares of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) fell 3.7% Friday morning as investors reacted to Meta’s launch of a dedicated Seller app for Facebook Marketplace. While Meta’s product rollout was public, the stock decline underscores growing concern on Wall Street that Meta is making a direct play for eBay’s core seller base. Historically viewed as an informal, local yard-sale platform, Facebook Marketplace’s standalone "Seller" app introduces tools specifically engineered to siphon professional, high-margin power

Shares of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) declined 3. 7% on Friday after Meta (NASDAQ:META) introduced a standalone Seller app for Facebook Marketplace, prompting fresh concerns that the social media giant is targeting the online marketplace’s professional merchant base.

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A Senate China probe, AI spending fears, and fresh layoffs are hitting Amazon stock just one week before a quarter that Wall Street expects to be strong. Something does not add up, and earnings may force a reckoning either way.

The options market sees two very different destinations for the online marketplace over the next year, and if you hold the shares, you're along for the entire ride.

PayPal rejected a $53.4 billion buyout bid from Stripe and Advent International, but its PYUSD stablecoin, Visa integration, and improving fundamentals suggest shares may still be undervalued.

These stocks offer growth at a reasonable valuation.

GameStop raised its stake in eBay to nearly 10% (about 43.4 million shares) after eBay’s board rejected its roughly $55.5 billion takeover offer of $125 per share as “neither credible nor attractive.”

Ryan Cohen built Chewy into a top online pet retailer and sold it to PetSmart. He then rebuilt GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME)’s balance sheet after the meme-stock era. Now he wants to buy a company roughly four times GameStop’s size. He stated in a recent interview with Bloomberg: “We’re coming for eBay one way or another.” […]

Ryan Cohen converted derivatives into 43.4 million shares

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That’s roughly double the amount GameStop owned in May, when the company made its initial $56 billion offer to acquire the marketplace.

Five years ago PayPal was a Wall Street favorite and a leader in digital payments. Since then the stock has plunged, Apple Pay dominates payment services in the U.S. and PayPal is facing a takeover bid it does not like. The company synonymous with digital payments this past week got a $53 billion ‌offer to be taken private by upstart rival Stripe and buyout shop Advent International.

Michael Burry remains skeptical of GameStop's eBay strategy but sees long-term value in Lululemon.

GameStop chief executive Ryan Cohen is pressing ahead with a long-shot pursuit of eBay despite Wall Street scepticism, quietly amassing a nearly...

UK Competition and Markets Authority clears eBay’s acquisition of Depop from Etsy (NYSE:ETSY). Approval allows Etsy to move ahead with the divestment of Depop to eBay. Decision signals a shift in Etsy’s business mix and potential future capital deployment. Etsy runs a global marketplace focused on unique and handcrafted goods, sitting alongside larger generalist platforms and niche resale apps. The UK approval for transferring Depop to eBay comes as online commerce continues to evolve...