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Mercury News interview: PayPal's Laura ChambersSan Jose Mercury NewsChambers says that even though her company, now owned by eBay, has been around more than a decade, mobile payments are really coming into their own this …and more » More: continued here

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) – A Cold War-era mobile hospital that sat in storage for decades is being auctioned off on eBay by Monroe County officials. The MASH-style medical supplies sat in boxes in the basement of Indiana University’s geology department for years. More: continued here

With eBay having placed cheeky ads telling users to browse at malls like Westfield, but then buy on eBay, the auction house is now telling users to sell unwanted gifts on eBay, rather than fighting the post-Christmas sales crowds to take them back to the stores eBay recommended not to buy from in the first…

Proactive Investors USA & Canada Twitter, eBay, Sprint, Herbalife are stocks to watchMarketWatchEBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) is forecast to post first-quarter earnings of 67 cents a share. Analysts at Susquehanna on Monday raised the stock's target price to $61 a share from $59. Sprint (NYSE:S) is expected to post a loss of 9 cents a share in…

The case against gift cardsSan Francisco ChronicleEconomist Jennifer Pate Offenberg has taken a look at the resale market on eBay. She concludes that a thriving resale market exists — but the typical …and more » More: continued here

EBay quarterly earnings were released Tuesday, showing revenue up 25%, despite a drop in earnings. More: continued here