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eBay

Founded in 1995 in San Jose, CA, eBay connects millions of buyers and sellers globally in the world’s largest online marketplace, utilizing PayPal to ensure secure transactions. The company also operates specialized marketplaces such as StubHub, the world’s largest ticket marketplace, and eBay Classifieds sites, which together have a presence in more than 1,000 cities around the world.

eBay items can be sold either via a silent auction, in which users input the maximum price they are willing to pay and for which the site will automatically increase bids as necessary up to that maximum, or via “Buy It Now,” with which they purchase items at a set price.

eBay products and companies include eBay Marketplace, Media Marketplace, PayPal, half.com, MicroPlace, Shopping.com, Rent.com, Stubhub and various online classifieds.

Recent Milestones

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  eBay invested in Bypass Mobile. (4/10/13)
  Posted 4/12/13 at 3:25am via techcrunch.com
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  eBay invested in Snapdeal. (4/1/13)
  Posted 4/1/13 at 6:14pm via venturebeat.com
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  eBay acquired Svpply. (9/6/12)
  Posted 9/6/12 at 10:38pm via techcrunch.com
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  eBay added Aravinth Bheemaraj as Software Development Engineer II. (6/25/12)
  Posted 3/6/13 at 3:07pm
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  eBay invested in Quikr India. (5/22/12)
  Posted 5/22/12 at 5:50am via techcrunch.com
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  eBay acquired Flockish. (4/1/12)
  Posted 4/26/12 at 2:05pm
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  eBay acquired BillSAFE. (12/22/11)
  Posted 12/22/11 at 4:05am via businesswire.com
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  eBay added Abhyuday Chakravarthi as Lead Front End Software Engineer. (12/1/11)
  Posted 7/3/12 at 6:52am
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  eBay acquired Hunch for $80M. (11/21/11)
  Posted 11/21/11 at 10:15am via uncrunched.com
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  eBay added Christina Mercando as Sr. Product and Design Manager. (11/21/11)
  Posted 10/10/12 at 11:14am
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  eBay added Eric Stromberg as Product Manager . (11/1/11)
  Posted 4/19/13 at 2:59am
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  eBay invested in Appcelerator. (11/1/11)
  Posted 11/1/11 at 5:42pm via techcrunch.com
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  eBay added Ron Gura as Head of Israel Innovation Center. (9/7/11)
  Posted 10/12/11 at 4:00am
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  eBay acquired The Gifts Project. (9/7/11)
  Posted 9/16/11 at 6:26am via allthingsd.com
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  eBay invested in Shipwire. (7/13/11)
  Posted 7/13/11 at 5:42pm via techcrunch.com
• 
  eBay acquired Zong for $240M. (7/7/11)
  Posted 7/7/11 at 6:27pm via techcrunch.com

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1. eBay Acquires Style-Focused, Social, Curated Shopping Site Svpply (techcrunch.com) []
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3. eBay Inc. Acquires BillSAFE (businesswire.com) []
4. EBAY’S GOT A HUNCH, FOR AROUND $80 MILLION (uncrunched.com) []
5. All Things D (allthingsd.com) []
6. eBay Buys Zong For $240 Million In Cash To Boost PayPal’s Mobile Payments Technology (techcrunch.com) []
7. eBay Acquires GSI Commerce For $2.4 Billion In Cash And Debt (techcrunch.com) []
8. eBay Acquired Magento For Over $180 Million – But Not Everyone Is Smiling (techcrunch.com) []
9. eBay Acquires Nonprofit Fundraising Tool MissionFish (techcrunch.com) []
10. eBay Acquires Turkish Marketplace GittiGidiyor (techcrunch.com) []
11. BostInnovation (bostinnovation.com) []
12. EBay To Acquire Germany's Brands4friends For $200M (fis.dowjones.com) []
13. eBay Buys Mobile App Developer Critical Path Software (techcrunch.com) []
14. Confirmed: Ebay Acquires Milo For $75 Million. Investors Make A Killing. (techcrunch.com) []
15. eBay Acquires RedLaser To Integrate Barcode-Scanning Into iPhone Apps (techcrunch.com) []
16. eBay Acquires Positronic, Inc. (ebayinkblog.com) []
17. Ebay Spends More Than $1.2 Billion To Buy BillMeLater And DBA.dk, And Lays Off 10% Of Employees (techcrunch.com) []
18. eBay Buys Denmark’s DBA for $380 million (techcrunch.com) []
19. EBay in Talks to Buy Share of Korean Auction Site GMarket (bits.blogs.nytimes.com) []
20. Cap Index Report []
21. eBay Acquires Fraud Sciences For $169 Million (techcrunch.com) []
22. eBay Acquires Afterbuy.com (news.ebay.com) []
23. eBay Acquires StumbleUpon (investor.ebay.com) []
24. eBay grabs hold of Gumtree (news.zdnet.co.uk) []
25. eBay Getting into Micro-Finance through Purchase of MicroPlace (auctionbytes.com) []
26. It’s Official - eBay is Buying StubHub For $310 million (techcrunch.com) []
27. eBay Acquires Sweden's Tradera.com - VCs Exit (thealarmclock.com) []
28. EBay Buys Skype for $2.6 Billion (pcworld.com) []
29. eBay's Kijiji Acquires German Classifieds Web Site opusforum (businesswire.com) []
30. EBay buys Shopping.com for $620 million (archive.thestandard.com) []
31. eBay's Kijiji Acquires Gumtree & LoQUo Classifieds Sites (auctionbytes.com) []
32. eBay to Acquire Kurant Assets (investor.ebay.com) []
33. eBay Grabs Rent.com for $415M (internetnews.com) []
34. eBay Acquires Dutch Company Marktplaats.nl (investor.ebay.com) []
35. eBay buys Baazee.com for $50 mn (in.rediff.com) []
36. eBay Completes EachNet Investment (investor.ebay.com) []
37. eBay Motors Announces Acquisition Agreement and New Strategic Relationship (investor.ebay.com) []
38. eBay picks up PayPal for $1.5 billion (news.cnet.com) []
39. eBay Broadens Scope with Half.com Buy (ecommercetimes.com) []
40. eBay Acquires Germany's Leading Online Person-to-Person Trading Site - alando.de AG (www2.prnewswire.com) []
41. eBay buys Billpoint, Kruse (news.cnet.com) []
42. eBay buys Butterfield & Butterfield (news.cnet.com) []
43. eBay Announces Acquisition of Jump Inc. and Its Person-to-Person Online Trading Site Up4sale (findarticles.com) []
44. Bypass Grabs $3.5M From eBay, Nolan Ryan & Others To Help Big-Ticket Venues Upgrade Their Payment Solutions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
45. Snapdeal nabs $50M from eBay & others to dominate online Indian e-commerce (venturebeat.com) [edit]
46. Quikr, India’s Spin On Craigslist, Gobbles Up $32M From Warburg Pincus, eBay & More (techcrunch.com) [edit]
47. Appcelerator Raises $15 Million Series C Round (techcrunch.com) [edit]
48. eBay And Rubbermaid Put $6 Million In Order Fulfillment Company Shipwire (techcrunch.com) [edit]
49. Quikr Raises $8M In Series D, Led By Nokia Growth Partners (techcircle.vccircle.com) [edit]
50. Sierra Leads $9 Million Investment in Appcelerator; eBay Makes Strategic Investment (appcelerator.com) [edit]
51. Magento Scores $22.5 Million For Open Source E-commerce Platform Play (techcrunch.com) [edit]
52. eBay Completes Skype Sale at $2.75 Billion Valuation (techcrunch.com) [edit]
53. earthtimes.org [edit]
54. thealarmclock.com [edit]
55. eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com (businessweek.com) [edit]
56. ChannelAdvisor Press Release (channeladvisor.com) [edit]
57. EBay buys 25% stake in Craigslist (sfgate.com) []
58. ChannelAdvisor Press Release (channeladvisor.com) [edit]
59. Benchmark Capital (fundinguniverse.com) []
eBay Q2 Revenue Hits $2.2 Billion, PayPal Adding One Million New Accounts Each Month (techcrunch.com) []
eBay: Mobile Sales Grew From $600 Million To $2 Billion In 2010 (techcrunch.com) []
eBay Beats The Street; Revenue Up 16 Percent To $2.5B; Net Income Up 12 Percent (techcrunch.com) []
eBay Closes $2.4 Billion Acquisition Of GSI Commerce (techcrunch.com) []