By: Congjia Liao Computer Science 1631 Winter 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.

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 1996 Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll established the cooperative relations. In 1997 the auction was renamed eBay, Using star number as representative of credit evaluation appeared

In October 1999 eBay into Australian market.

Germany France In 2000 eBay to continue to global outspread, respectively in Canada Austria opened site.

CEO of eBay from 1995 ~ 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.

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 by Jeffrey Skoll Jeffrey Skoll Chief Executive OfficerChief Executive Officer of eBay 1998–2008eBay Succeeded by John Donahoe John Donahoe PresidentPresident of eBay 1998–2008eBay Party political offices Preceded by Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold Schwarzenegger RepublicanRepublican nominee for Governor of California 2010Governor of California 2010 Most recent Meg Whitman

eBay + PayPal