Ebay Introduction:
1. eBay (EBAY, in Chinese, Yibai, Yi Bei) is an online auction and shopping site that manages online auctions and shopping sites that allow people around the world to buy and sell items online. ebay was founded by Pierre Omidyar on September 4, 1995 in San Jose, California under the name Auctionweb. People can sell goods through the network on ebay. on February 19, 2014, eBay announced the acquisition of PhiSix, a 3D virtual fitting company.
2. It was founded in September 1995, when Omidyar's girlfriend loved the Pez candy box, but was struggling to find people to communicate with. So Omidyar set up an auction site, hoping to help his girlfriend and Pez candy box enthusiasts across the U.S. to communicate, which is eBay. What Omidyar did not expect was that eBay was very popular, and soon the site was crowded with enthusiasts collecting Pez candy boxes, Barbie dolls and other items. The first item Omidyar sold was a broken laser pointer, which sold for $14.83. Surprised, he asked the winning bidder, "Don't you know it's broken?" Omidyar received the following letter in response:
"I'm a specialized collector of broken laser indicators player."3. Jeff Skoll was hired as the company's first president and full-time employee in 1996, and the company officially changed its name to ebay in September 1997. initially, the site was owned by Omidyar's consultant, the Echo Bay Technology Group. omidyar tried to register an ebay URL, but the site was not registered. Omidyar tried to register a Web site for EchoBay, but found that it had already been registered by the Echo Bay mining industry, so he changed EchoBay to his second filing, Ebay. In 1997 Omidyar began a search for a CEO for eBay, and looked for Meg Whitman, who had a Harvard MBA and had served as a vice president for Procter & Gamble and Disney. Whitman refused to join eBay because he had never heard of it, and then agreed to do so after being soft-pedaled by professional headhunter Bernier, who took eBay to its present glory.
4. Today eBay has 147.1 million registered users, sellers from 29 countries around the world, and millions of items involving thousands of classifications for sale every day, making it the world's largest electronic bazaar. 2003 turnover was $23.8 billion, with a net income of $2.2 billion. on April 10, 2015, PayPal was spun off from eBay, and the agreement stipulated that that eBay would not be allowed to launch a payment service for five years, and PayPal would not be able to develop an autonomous online trading platform for physical products.