Ebay Development

By: Congjia LiaoComputer Science 1631Winter 2011’

eBay Inc. and its subsidiaries provide online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services, online payments services, and online communication offerings to individuals and businesses in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Marketplaces and Payments.

Pierre Omidyar pioneered the auction site in

1995

In Pierre Omidyar was born in Paris, his parents were Iranians studied 1967, in France

"I never had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology."

In 1996Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll established

the cooperative relations.

In 1997 the auction was renamed eBay, Using

star number as representative of credit evaluation appeared

May 1999 eBay announced in Salt Lake City of Salt Lake Nevada established service center

In August 1999 eBay and America online AOL establishment cooperation auction channel.

In October 1999 eBay into Australian market.

In August 1999, two harvard business school graduates, founded in Shanghai, China, ebay.

Germany

France

In 2000 eBay to

continue to global

outspread,

respectively in

Canada

Austria

opened site.

Meg Whitman

CEO of eBay from 1995 ~ 2008.When she leaves at 2008, ebay became a company which has 15 thousands employees and annual turnover is 80 billion.

At the same time, ebay became the largest Electron commerce website in the world and step into the world's top 500 enterprises.

In February 2009, Whitman announced her candidacy for

Governor of California

She throw into 1.4 billion dollars campaign for governor. All those assets are from her own property.

Which is the largest amount of money invested on campaign fee besides the presidential election.

But finally she failed, some people believe that some business men’s response to eBay had some bad influence to her.

Business positions

Preceded byJeffrey Skoll

Chief Executive Officer of eBay1998–2008

Succeeded byJohn Donahoe

President of eBay1998–2008

Party political offices

Preceded byArnold Schwarzenegger

Republican nominee for Governor of California

2010

Most recent

Meg Whitman

In 2001, eBay continued global expansion and the

service platform of improvement. In Latin America,

South Korea, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ireland, and Singapore investment. In

the same year, eBay online shop was born, very popular.

In 2002 eBay acquired PayPal -- this online payment

system of outstanding person, makes users "trading between

become more simple and safe is reliable. That same year, eBay's

first community meeting, in California, Anatole Haim was

held.

eBay + PayPal

eBay's 6-Month Chart during 2010

SHARES

The majority share of the ebay hold by Institutional & Mutual Fund Owners, which is 79%;

The second is all Insider and 5% Owners, which is 12%