DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Jan 27, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
eBay Motors currently announced new updates to a eBay
Motors iPhone(R) app, accessible for evident download on iTunes, with
facilities including holding a design of a automobile to now hunt for
it on eBay, and streaming live, disdainful content. The eBay Motors
iPhone(R) app already enables automobile lovers to emporium for vehicles and the
tools that go with them anytime, anywhere — a updates announced today
capacitate automobile fans to offer facilitate their offered experience, make
pity with their friends some-more seamless, and entrance interesting and
ominous strange content, right from their smartphones.

With a eBay Motors iPhone app’s new streaming feature, automobile enthusiasts
can watch live broadcasts disdainful to eBay Motors from automobile events and
races directly from their iPhone or iPod Touch(R). To flog off this
feature, former Le Mans personality Justin Bell will horde live,
behind-the-scenes coverage during a 50th Anniversary Rolex 24
during Daytona International Speedway this weekend, Jan 26-29. The
coverage will element a live foster on SPEED, ongoing updates on
GRAND-AM.com, and “after-hours” coverage on SPEED.com. The footage will
also be streamed live on a World’s Fastest Car Show website, the
online end for eBay Motors’ weekly automobile journey show.

Bell will be among a drivers of a No. 4 Children’s Tumor Foundation/
Racing4Research/ Magnus Racing Porsche GT3, sponsored by eBay Motors,
and competing in a GT (Grand Touring) category in a Rolex 24. In
further to a around-the-clock webcast on a World’s Fastest Car Show
website, Bell will also offer as SPEED’s “in-race” reporter, giving live
reports and updates directly from a No. 4 eBay Motors/R4R Porsche
while he is racing on a track.

“Being means to contest in this eventuality during such a ancestral venue, while
providing coverage competition fans will love, is a good privilege,” said
Bell. “The all-time greats have been in this race, and to be a partial of
that story while essay a new section with first-ever live mobile
foster of a eventuality will be really special. For any fan that has ever
wondered what it’s like to be a driver, this will be as picturesque a
glance into a day as they’ve ever seen before.”

Another featured aspect of this weekend’s rare radio and
online programming from eBay, SPEED, SPEED.com and GRAND-AM.com will be
a post-race auction on eBay Motors of a one-of-a-kind “Rennsport
Edition” Porsche Cayman S, a special elect from a organizers of
a Cayman Interseries for this past October’s Rennsport Reunion at
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The Cayman Interseries was partial of the
weekend’s racing movement during Rennsport, a ultimate jubilee of
Porsche’s achieved racing heritage, and a special blue and yellow
Cayman S paid reverence to a event. The automobile was autographed by the
dozens of a mythological drivers in assemblage and also has a names of
any bureau racing Porsche ever constructed and a good international
circuits on that these famous drivers and machines raced.

Proceeds from a “Rennsport Edition” Porsche Cayman S auction will go
to a Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF), that advantages children with
Neurofibromatosis (NF), and provides appropriation for investigate to find a cure
for a disease. The No. 4 eBay Porsche will lift CTF’s Racing4Research
summary in a Rolex 24 while a webcast will actively foster a NF
means all weekend. The Rolex 24 Racing4Research module has turn the
annual kickoff eventuality for CTF fundraising any year and donations can be
done at
www.racing4research.org .

In further to live streaming, new facilities for a eBay Motors iPhone
app include:

–
New Search! See a automobile we like? Use Vehicle Finder to take a
design of a automobile and find it on eBay — no typing required

–
Win some-more stuff! Receive notifications for when we are outbid,
when equipment we are examination are ending, and updates on a current
Best Offer

–
Easily refurbish your Garage! Haven’t uploaded a print of your car
to a Garage? Stock images for vehicles are now accessible for quick
and easy form updates

–
Share with your friends! Easily share a tools and vehicles
we are offered or offered with your supporters on Twitter (currently
for iOS 5 only)

“Car lovers have embraced mobile offered with 127,000 tools and 2,800
cars sole any week worldwide by eBay mobile applications alone,”
pronounced Steve Yankovich, eBay’s clamp boss of mobile. “We are enhancing
this knowledge with interesting strange calm and Vehicle Finder
picture search. The eBay Motors app is a one-stop end for auto
fans, from their subsequent squeeze to behind a scenes footage of a raceway
event, either they are during home or on a go.”

To tune-in to eBay’s coverage of a Rolex 24, visit
http://mobile.ebay.com
to download a eBay Motors mobile app, and visit
a World’s Fastest Car Show website on days heading adult to, and
during competition weekend.

To bid on a special “Rennsport Edition” Porsche Cayman S, go to
http://www.ebay.com/ctfauction
for details.

About eBay Motors

eBay Motors, a partial of eBay Inc., is a Internet’s largest marketplace
for offered and offered all things automotive. The site offers everyday
cars for bland drivers, as good as gourmet cars, motorcycles, auto
tools and accessories. eBay Motors is consistently ranked a initial or
second many visited automotive site on a web according to ComScore
(April 2011).

About eBay Mobile

eBay launched a initial focus for a iPhone in Jul 2008 and has
given turn a personality in mobile commerce. Its core iPhone application,
that is accessible giveaway around iTunes(R) in 8 languages and 190
countries, has been downloaded some-more than 25 million times and allows
users to entirely crop and buy but withdrawal a application. eBay’s
portfolio of mobile applications have surpassed 65 million global
downloads given a third entertain of 2008. The eBay app for a iPad(R)
debuted in a tip 10 many downloaded giveaway iPad apps in a iTunes
Store and delivers a dramatically different, visually compelling
offered knowledge to crop and squeeze a immeasurable preference of
products accessible on eBay. eBay’s apartment of mobile apps, including
RedLaser, Motors, Fashion, Classifieds and StubHub, make offered and
offered probable probably anywhere, anytime. In 2010, eBay’s mobile
volume transacted on a site was scarcely $2 billion. In 2011, eBay’s
mobile volume transacted on a site was $5 billion, and expects to
covenant $8 billion in volume in 2012. For some-more information on eBay
mobile, revisit mobile.ebay.com.

RedLaser is a heading barcode-scanning mobile focus for iPhone and
Android(TM) and was acquired by eBay Mobile in Jun 2010. The app has more
than 16 million downloads and is consistently a tip 3 giveaway utilities
app in a U.S. Apple iTunes store. Scan a cataloged object and prices
opposite Google, TheFind, eBay, Half.com, Milo.com and Best Buy will
stock for comparison — along with useful product information. The
RedLaser program growth pack is used by some-more than 200 licensees,
including Coupons.com, TheFind, The Knot and shopkick and stickybits.
For some-more information on RedLaser, visit
www.redlaser.com .

eBay Inc.’s PayPal multiplication has been delivering mobile payments since
2005 and has a mobile app for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry(R) and Nokia
phones, as good as SMS and WAP-based payments solutions. PayPal offers
merchants an easy approach for shoppers to checkout on mobile websites via
Mobile Express Checkout and mobile developers can use PayPal for in-app
payments regulating PayPal’s Mobile Payments Library. PayPal increasing mobile
remuneration volume by five-fold in 2011 to $4 billion and expects to reach
$7 billion in 2012. For some-more information on PayPal mobile, visit
www.paypal.com/mobile .

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