| Employees | 27‚770 (2012)[1] | Slogan(s) | "World ’s Online Marketplace." "Connecting buyers and sellers globally." "What ever it is‚ you can get it on eBay." "Buy it‚ sell it‚ love it" "Buy it New‚ Buy it Now" "When it ’s on your mind‚ it ’s on eBay" | eBay Inc. (stylized as ebay) is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation‚ headquartered in San Jose‚ California. It was founded in 1995‚ and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a
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History of eBay It all began in September 1995 when Pierre Omidyar a software developer for Apple computers decided to sell his broken laser pointer. He created originally called ‘‘AuctionWeb‘‘ site which was created on the very same server as his page devoted to research about the ebola virus. It came as a surprise when he found out that his broken laser pointer was sold for more than 14 dollars. He decided to contact the winning bidder asking why would he buy a broken thing for this amount of
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EBAY in Japan Pierre Omidyar‚ a software programmer created Auction Web which later became eBay in 1995. Over the next 11 years it would acquire 24 companies making it a very successful company. In the late 1990’s eBay began to explore opportunities in the international market. It’s website was gaining popularity in Canada‚ the UK‚ and Germany. As its popularity increased it began to set up websites in several European Countries including Korea and Australia. It soon began to venture out
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UVA-F-1357 EBAY INC. (A) Gary Bengier‚ Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations at eBay‚ clicked on the send button as he emailed the week’s financial update to Pierre Omidyar‚ the company’s 31-year old chairman. It was September 15‚ 1998 and Wall Street was still reeling from a summer of severe market volatility. Much of the market’s instability could be traced to bearish worries over a deepening and continuing economic crisis in Asia and other developing markets. Many investors
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1. Why has eBay struggled in Japan‚ China and other Asia markets? eBay is an online auction service whose business model is ideally suited to the Web. EBay stores no inventory and ships no products. Instead‚ it derives its revenue from the movement of information‚ an ideal task for the Internet. EBay has taken its model to numerous foreign markets and been successful‚ particularly in England‚ France‚ and Germany‚ however‚ eBay has failed to achieve the same success in the Asian markets. There
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Millions of buyers and sellers have made eBay Inc. the world’s largest and most popular Internet site for individuals and businesses to exchange goods. By 1999 eBay had 5.6 million registered users and listed over 3.1 million items for sale; by 2004 there were an estimated 65 million registered users from 150 countries‚ 971 million items for sale‚ and gross merchandise sales hit $15billion. eBay owns local sites in 19 countries‚ has stakes in another eight foreign nations‚ and provides users with
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Online will allow eBay to enter the Chinese rapidly growing market. In 2007‚ China experienced a technology boom in which more people were using the Internet than ever before. Besides the rocket increase of Internet usage in China‚ E-Commerce is growing as well. With the power and influence of Tom Online‚ eBay has a unique opportunity to grab the market share of a billion people in China. EBay can benefit a lot from the joint venture with Tom online. Tom Online will help eBay reach millions of
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Question 1 What are the business benefits to Amazon and eBay of opening up some of their database to developers and entrepreneurs? Do you agree with this strategy? Why or why not? Amazon and eBay have opened the database doors to thousands of developers and entrepreneurs since 2002. They realized very quickly the benefits of this‚ which was once thought of as risky experiment. A database is a collection of information organized in such a way that a computer program can quickly select the desired
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compliance will increase costs. | 0.07 | - | | - | | 2) Weak global economic conditions. | 0.05 | - | | - | | 3) Competition is intense in communications services and subject to rapid technological change. | 0.05 | - | | - | | 4) Amazon’s strong growth and satisfied customer. | 0.09 | 3 | 0.27 | 4 | 0.36 | 5) Legislation is in effect which requires collection of taxes beginning after December 31‚ 2010. | 0.08 | - | | - | | 6) Financial measures will be negatively impacted by a rise
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ARTICLE REVIEW- WHY USE EBAY? | | Tutor’s name : Tutorial Group : Submission date : Review of Article Entitled: Why Use eBay? Introduction Brew‚ Simon. (2011). The Independent Guide to eBay 2011: How to Make Serious Money on eBay (Chapter 1: ‘Why Use eBay?’). MagBook: China. This article is all about eBay’s specialties‚ eBay in business‚ and also advantages and disadvantages of eBay. This article also presents some detailed information about eBay. Summary
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