Mobile also attracted over 4.3 million new users to eBay in 2012, prompting sellers to list almost 2 million items per week from their smartphones on eBay.

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With sellers now listing 2 million items per week from their smartphones on eBay and the quarter spanning the holiday season, we expect the gross merchandise volume and the number of active users to continue the strong growth from the third quarter.

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For the whole of 2012, eBay handled 27, 918 buy transactions per kWh and 17, 995 sell transactions per kWh.

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Updated: eBay just reported earnings for Q1 of 47 cents per share, topping consensus estimates of 46 cents, and up from 42 cents in the year-ago period.

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And, according to eBay and PayPal, iPad2s were moving at a rate of 250 per hour from 12am to 8am PT.

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Very similar to the famous Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the six-wheeled bot created by a team at Shanghai Aerospace System Engineering Institute is capable of cruising around the Moon at a reported 100 meters per hour, all the while snapping photos and collecting bits of moon rock for analysis and possible sale on eBay.

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