EBay has partnered with food truck Kara’s Cupcakes for the Happy Holiday Hotspots campaign to deliver sweet treats and let consumers bypass the long Black Friday lines by buying via eBay’s mobile application.

To answer the growing use of mobile devices to shop for and purchase cars and parts, eBay has launched a new eBay Motors iPhone application.

NEW YORK – An eBay executive at the Mcommerce Summit: State of Mobile Commerce 2011 conference said contrary to belief, upscale and affluent users are only a small percentage of consumers that are using Apple’s iPad to make mobile purchases.

EBay Inc. is relying on mobile marketing to make consumers aware that they can be on the go and shop for anything they are inspired by while they are mobile.

EBay’s acquisition of Critical Path is yet another move on the part of the auction platform to cement its position as a formidable force in the mobile commerce market.

For the second year in a row, mobile holiday shopping on eBay peaked worldwide on the second Sunday of December—the day the ecommerce giant calls “Mobile Sunday.”

Targeting holiday shoppers, eBay has added local shopping results from recently acquired Milo to its RedLaser bar code-scanning application for both Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android.

On Cyber Monday mobile commerce sales from eBay shoppers in the United States increased 146 percent year-over-year, with California, Nevada, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Florida leading the way as the top mobile shopping states.

EBay has debuted its first application for Windows Phone 7, with a personal shopping experience tailored for the mobile platform.

With Half.com’s new iPhone applications targeting back-to-school shoppers, eBay has debuted its first buying application that integrates bar code-scanning technology.