eBay Inc. CEO John Donahoe brought eBay Inc.’s message of global commerce – creating opportunities where merchants of all sizes can compete and win – to a recent U.S. Innovation and Competitiveness event hosted by the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.

Pictured from left to right: Mark Magnier (GAP), Christian Hardman(PROACT), Captain Williams (LAPD), Hawken Averett (PROACT), Stoney Burke (PROACT), Lauren Cunningham(GAP), Detective Joe Hopkins (LAPD)

This week, Roll Call published an opinion piece from Brandon Arnold with the National Taxpayers Union. In the article, Arnold argued that Congress should keep the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act off of the agenda for the lame duck session.

This week, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), a nonprofit taxpayer advocacy group, released a post arguing that the Senate passed Marketplace Fairness Act would cripple American small businesses that leverage technology. “The Marketplace Fairness Act is being billed by its supporters as a common-sense proposal that would level the playing field between online and brick-and-mortar retailers by taking away online retailers' exemption from sales tax”, writes ATR.  “What sounds noble, or at least harmless, at fi