John Donahoe

EBay has come a long way since its days as an Internet flea market. Today, 62% of eBay listings are fixed price, not auctions, and 70% are new. But the website's devoted cadre of loyal used item sellers feels like its recently launched "buy it new" campaign is selling them out.

Online auctioneer eBay posted 11% higher first-quarter profits, powered by a strong performance in the PayPal electronic payments business. But the stock fell nearly 8% after-hours on the company's weaker-than-expected forecast.

EBay (EBAY) is a Web pioneer, having built a multibillion dollar business out of allowing people to essentially put garage sales on the Internet. That simple idea led to fast growth more than a decade ago and helped define what was possible online for other companies that followed. The company's...

Online auctioneer eBay's legions of sellers are digesting the likely fallout from a significant raft of policy and fee changes announced by company CEO John Donahoe today. The quick and dirty version -- kiss the old, quirky fun eBay (EBAY) goodbye and say hello to a site that looks a lot more like...

The ubiquity of eBay's brand, said CEO John Donahoe, is no accident. Last night at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena, Donahoe said his company buys millions of search engine keywords to help drive traffic and sales. "We're one of the largest buyers of keywords in the world,"...

There could be an opportunity to tweak the way we pay CEOs of big public companies. I hope this doesn't sound too harsh, but when you consider that the average 2008 compensation for the 10 highest paid public company CEOs was $40.7 million while their companies lost half of their stock market value...