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Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, [ 6] he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. [ 7][ 6] Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004.
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. ( / ˈiːbeɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. Sales occur either via online auctions or "buy ...
France, [a] officially the French Republic, [b] is a country located primarily in Western Europe.Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
As of September 2014, eBay has acquired over 40 companies, the most expensive of which was the purchase of Skype, a Voice over Internet Protocol company, for US$ 2.6 billion in cash plus up to an additional US$1.5 billion if certain performance goals were met. [ 2] The majority of companies acquired by eBay are based in the United States.
This is a list of some of the modern orders, decorations and medals of France. Some, like the Legion of Honour, are awarded to both the armed forces and civilians. Others are decorations of a pure civilian or military character. Only four of the 19 Ministerial orders have survived the reform of the French system of decorations in 1963.
English words of French origin can also be distinguished from French words and expressions used by English speakers. Although French is derived mainly from Latin, which accounts for about 60% of English vocabulary either directly or via a Romance language, it includes words from Gaulish and Germanic languages, especially Old Frankish. Since ...
eBay Enterprise, Inc. (formerly GSI Commerce, Inc.) was a multinational e-commerce corporation that specialized in creating, developing and running online shopping sites for brick and mortar brands and retailers. The company also provided a variety of marketing, consumer engagement, customer care, payment processing, fulfillment, fraud ...
150 feet (46 m) Max. depth. 68 m (223 ft) The Strait of Dover or Dover Strait ( French: Pas de Calais French pronunciation: [pɑ d (ə) kalɛ] - Strait of Calais) [ 1] is the strait at the narrowest part of the English Channel, marking the boundary between the Channel and the North Sea, and separating Great Britain from continental Europe.