EBay Q2 profit beats Street

KOMO News EBay's PayPal to Acquire Mobile-Wallet Startup PaydiantBloomberg(Bloomberg) — EBay Inc.'s PayPal, the digital-payments unit being spun off from the Internet marketplace later this year, agreed to buy startup Paydiant Inc. to broaden its mobile offerings for merchants. Paydiant, founded in 2010 and based near …PayPal to Buy Paydiant (EBAY)StreetInsider.comMobile Wallets Race: Samsung Pay…

Economic Times Man puts 'unsympathetic' wife up for sale on eBay in UKEconomic TimesLONDON: A 33-year-old man in the UK has put his wife up for sale on eBay after he claimed she was "unsympathetic" when he was unwell following which the bids hit a whopping 65,880 pounds. Simon O'Kane from Wakefield, Yorkshire posted a…

Harry Potter Among eBay's Top Pop Culture Purchases of 2011ABC News (blog)The franchises are listed on this year's edition of eBay's“Top Shopped” report, which ranks the pop culture moments and trends that “captured shoppers' attention — and cash — in 2011.” “Harry Potter” and “Twilight” rank second and third …eBay Looks Back at Top Pop-Culture…

The UK’s famed Jodrell Bank Observatory is up for sale on eBay. The offering is only a prank – although one clever enough to be well worth reading (“Rotates 360 degrees,” the post enthuses. “Point it down to the ground… More: continued here

Atomic Zune HD explodes all over Ebayengadget (blog)Well, we later saw an image or two of it, but now one's shown up in the flesh on ebay — and for a starting bid of a mere 265 bones you might be able to …and more » More: continued here

The Next Web EBay's retailing transformationMSN MoneyEBay (EBAY) held its annual analyst day last week, where it provided robust guidance for its key business platforms, saying eBay's three core businesses — Marketplace, PayPal and GSI — would process in excess of $300 billion in global commerce by …PayPal tests financial backing of eBay merchantsSan Jose…