Profile of Meg Whitman's likely successor eBay President John Donahue

[mandy]

Donahoe is a deputy to the chief executive, Meg Whitman and, many analysts say, her likely successor when she steps down. In his two years as head of eBay Marketplaces — a division responsible for 70 percent of the company's revenue and an even greater percentage of its profit — he has set out to change the e-commerce giant's colors.

Donahoe has led the acquisition of companies like the ticket exchange Stubhub, helping eBay change from a single, auction-oriented marketplace into a portfolio of retail sites. This year, revenue-sharing deals brokered by Donahoe with Yahoo and Google will bring online ads to the auction site on a large scale for the first time.

His newest move, the cubicle swap, is designed to bring together the engineers and business people who work on specific projects while weaning employees off their land-line phones and getting them to use the Internet calling service Skype, which eBay acquired for $2.6 billion in 2005...

full article: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/20/b...s/ebay.php

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This year, revenue-sharing deals brokered by Donahoe with Yahoo and Google will bring online ads to the auction site on a large scale for the first time.

[chiquita]

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This year, revenue-sharing deals brokered by Donahoe with Yahoo and Google will bring online ads to the auction site on a large scale for the first time.

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