eBay Inc.’s Government Relations team would like to wish you and your family a very Happy New Years! We look forward to the upcoming year and supporting our Main Street members in their public policy needs!
Happy New Year!
Forbes recently published an opinion piece by Steve DelBianco, executive director of NetChoice, a trade association of eCommerce businesses and online consumers. NetChoice and its members have been vocal opponents of the Marketplace Fairness Act. In his opinion piece, DelBianco explained how close supporters of the Marketplace Fairness Act came to passing the bill this holiday season.
This year, the eBay Inc. Legal team had the great honor of winning two awards for legal excellence from The Recorder, California's leading legal news and analysis publication. For The Recorder’s third annual Legal Department of the Year awards, editors reviewed over 70 nominations to choose winners in nine different categories. In 2014, eBay Inc. received the awards in the categories of Patent Strategy and Government Affairs.
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eBay Inc.’s Government Relations team would like to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas! May you be surrounded by friends, family and the joy of the season.
Merry Christmas!
eBay Inc. was honored to recently host Roger Wilkins, President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) at eBay Inc. headquarters in San Jose.; Mr. Wilkins toured the eBay Inc. Commerce Innovation Showcase, experiencing new ways in which eBay and PayPal-enabled businesses around the world are using Internet and mobile technologies to grow and provide unique consumer experiences. He also spent time discussing the future of payments with John Muller, VP of Global Payments Policy at eBay Inc., and Gene Truono, PayPal’s Chief Compliance Officer.
The Hill recently published an opinion piece from Drexden Davis, CEO of Scrapbook.com and a cofounder of the eMainStreet Alliance, a grassroots coalition of more than 700 small online businesses that came together to express opposition to the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA). In the article, Davis explained how many small businesses would be impacted by the MFA.
In a recent blog post written by Andy Steingruebl, Director of Ecosystem Security for PayPal, he highlighted the steps that PayPal has taken to help move the industry beyond passwords. Steingruebl explained that, last year, PayPal spearheaded the industry collaboration called the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance to help move folks beyond passwords. More than a year later, the Alliance has grown to 150 members – including companies like Google, Samsung, and Microsoft – and has released the final specifications which are available for any company to implement.
In a recent article, Paul Jones, senior director of Global Asset Protection for eBay, shared the five ways that retailers could protect their business this holiday season. At eBay, Jones leads efforts to develop programs and strategies to protect the eBay Inc. sites from criminality and has over 20 years of retail loss prevention experience.
Last week, the President’s Export Council met for the second time this year. In early 2013, President Obama appointed eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe to the President’s Export Council, a prestigious advisory committee on international trade. Over the past year, Donahoe has advised the president on policies and programs that affect U.S. trade, including opportunities to expand cross border trade opportunities for businesses that use eBay Inc.