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eBay Inc. (EBAY) is in the Retail Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 31 2007
- $7.6B
- Profit
- Dec 31 2007
- $348.2M
- Market Cap
- May 14 2008
- $41.0B
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eBay's StumbleUpon inks video deals with Veoh and Dailymotion
Site recommendation service StumbleUpon will show clips from Veoh and Dailymotion, as part of a series of new content deals. Video sites College Humor, Funny or Die, Vimeo and vbs.tv have also signed up to distribute their clips through StumbleVideo, adding to existing partners such as YouTube, MySpace and...
Craigslist Sues EBay and Alleges Corporate Spy Plan
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - Online classifieds leader Craigslist.com filed a countersuit on Tuesday against business rival eBay EBAY, alleging eBay had used its minority stake in Craigslist to steal corporate trade secrets. In a lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San...
MySpace partners with Yahoo!, eBay and Twitter for ?data availability’
MySpace is announcing a ?data availability’ initiative that will see users able to share their MySpace data across a series of partner sites, including Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter and Photobucket. Although the move does not represent full data portability, with MySpace a member of the Data Portability...
MySpace to share data with Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter and more
MySpace is partnering with sites including Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter and Photobucket to share its data across the different networks. The 'data availability' initiative is the social network's first step in supporting full data portability, which uses open source standards to allow free sharing and use of different data and...
MySpace to Let Users Share Profile Across the Net
By Kenneth Li NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's NWSa MySpace social network will let users choose to share their public profile information, such as pictures, videos, and text, across the Web to spread its service beyond its own borders. At launch, the...
Conflicting Interests Under the Spotlight in eBay-Craigslist Lawsuit
EBay has gone public with the details of its lawsuit against Craigslist and its two shareholders Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster. While suit details alleged self-dealing by Newmark and Buckmaster and a rift over eBay's Kijiji unit, which competes with Craigslist, it's worth pondering the motives--and perceptions--here. ...
Amazon's Pricing Means Lower Margins, Share Drop
By Alexandria Sage LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc AMZN warned on Wednesday that profit margins would narrow in 2008 as it kept prices in check, sending its shares down 5 percent, even as quarterly results topped Wall Street targets and the Web...
EBay Sues Craigslist Over Alleged Stake Dilution
By Gina Keating LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - EBay Inc, the world's largest online auctioneer, sued Craigslist, a competitor in which it holds an ownership stake, in a dispute over whether the Internet bulletin board tried to blunt eBay's control. EBay EBAY alleged in...
EBay Shares Fall on UK Auction Listings Drop
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - Shares of eBay Inc EBAY fell as much as 4 percent after the company saw a sharp decline in new auction listings in Britain, its third-largest market, Deutsche Bank said in research note on Monday. Deutsche Bank analyst Jeetil Patel, who...
Skype CEO Says Pleased With Support From EBay
By Nicola Leske and Jens Hack MUNICH (Reuters) - Skype's new chief executive is pleased with the support the Internet calling company has received from parent firm eBay EBAY and has brushed off media reports that Skype might be put up for sale...
EBay Profit Rises 22 Percent, But Cautious on Economy
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc EBAY posted a 22 percent rise in quarterly net profit, topping Wall Street's average estimate, as pricing changes increased online auction listings and pushed revenue above all forecasts. The company also raised its 2008...
eBay's Dog-Friendly Workplace
Once upon a time there were two friends who made a music-sharing program called KaZaA. It was very popular, and the two friends followed it up with another program called Skype, which let everyone make phone calls pretty much for free over the Internet. They became subversive...
EBay Profit Rises 22 Percent
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - EBay Inc EBAY posted a 22 percent rise in quarterly net profit, topping Wall Street's average estimate, as pricing changes increased online auction listings and pushed revenue above all forecasts. The company also raised its 2008 revenue target,...
EBay Profit Rises 22 Pct, Fueled By Int'l Sales
By Eric Auchard SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online auctioneer eBay Inc EBAY posted a 22 percent rise in quarterly net profit, topping Wall Street's average estimate, as pricing changes drove auction listings and pushed revenue above all forecasts. For 2008, eBay said it...
The New eBay headed in the Wrong Direction?
The New eBay headed in the Wrong Direction?Renovate, don't innovateRemember Marshall McLuen's dictum: the medium is the message, or, in marketing terms, the model is your offer. The message of eBay is ebay; you can't have one, you can't have one, you can't have one without the ooooooottthher.RE: The New...
The New eBay headed in the Wrong Direction?
Incoming eBay CEO John Donahoe is taking the mega online auctioneer in the absolute wrong direction with his recent moves to "muffle" buyer ratings, raise fees on small sellers while offering discounts to power vendors, and emphasizing fixed-price products at eBay Express, says Harvard Online blogger John Sviokla. What...
Did Meg Whitman Fail?
Did Meg Whitman Fail?Lack of customer service and knowledge of staffLast year I canceled my Ebay account because of repeated attempts to correct a problem with Ebay customer service. It started out that one of the vendors on the Ebay site took a payment from me, then rejected it...
Did Meg Whitman Fail?
This is a tough question to ask because Meg Whitman has been a legendary Silicon Valley CEO for 10 years and one of America's leading women CEOs, but ask it we must: does her expected departure from eBay at the age of 51 signal a management failure on her part?...
eBay Goes Head-to-Head with Craigslist
Last Friday, eBay launched the U.S. version of their Kijiji.com online classified site, which will directly compete with Craigslist.org. On the surface, that's not such a surprise. Online classifieds seems a natural extension of eBay's core online auction business and e-commerce brand. Some have already heaped praise on Kijiji's interface,...
Daily Dispatch: Samsung, Home Depot, GE Money, and U.S. Industrials
Samsung Electronics today unveiled a new flash memory production line at its Texas plant and revealed plans to invest another $3.5 billion in flash memory chip production there. The announcement marks the first time the leading memory chip-maker has released details on production capacities. Analysts say Samsung's...
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- CEO: Mr. John J. Donahoe
eBay provides online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services, online payments services and online communication offerings to individuals and businesses. Co. operates three business segments: Marketplaces, comprising online commerce platforms that enable buyers and sellers to interact and trade with one another globally; Payments, which through its global payments platform, PayPal, enables individuals or businesses with an email address to send and receive payments online; as well as Communications, which consist of Co.'s Skype business that provides free and unlimited voice, video and instant messaging conversations between people using the Skype software.
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Board of Directors
Mr. Pierre M. Omidyar
Chairman
Mr. Philippe Bourguignon
Mr. Thomas J. Tierney
Mr. David M. Moffett
Ms. Margaret C. Whitman
Mr. John J. Donahoe
Mr. Rajiv Dutta
Mr. Fred D. Anderson
Mr. Edward W. Barnholt
Mr. Scott D. Cook
Mr. William Clay Ford Jr.
Ms. Dawn G. Lepore
Mr. Richard T. Schlosberg III
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San Jose, CA
408 376-7400
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