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ProStores was an e-commerce website hosting company owned by eBay. Formerly known as Kurant StoreSense, ProStores was acquired by eBay Inc. by the end of 2005 changing the name to ProStores by eBay. [42] ProStores' feature set included simple wizard-driven website, e-commerce capabilities, site design tools and e-business management.
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.
On March 28, 2011, it was announced that eBay Inc. would acquire GSI for $2.4 billion. The deal was closed on June 20, 2011. [18] On June 20, 2013, the company announced that it would be retiring the GSI Commerce name in favor of eBay Enterprise. [19] Magento, Inc. became a part of eBay Enterprise on November 21, 2013.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of eBay (born 1967) Pierre Omidyar Omidyar in 2007 Born Parviz Morad Omidyar (1967-06-21) June 21, 1967 (age 57) Paris, France Citizenship Iran France United States Education University of California, Berkeley (BS) Occupation(s) Founder of eBay ...
Tradera is acquired by eBay.com for approximately $50 million. [40] 2007 Acquisition N/A StubHub is acquired by eBay.com. [41] 2007 Major launch Media streaming service Hulu, a popular subscription video on demand service, launches. Hulu is composed of various media organizations. [42] 2007 Major launch Online advertising
Shopping.com began as Papricom (DealTime.com), [1] which was founded in Israel in 1998 by Dr. Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi, [2] the original business model was to create a downloadable client that would monitor changes in prices of products the user seeks to buy over time, notifying the user when the product price reached a predetermined level (hence the site's original name, DealTime).
Radial, Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce company based in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. [2] It provides order management, payment processing, order routing, fulfillment, and analytics services for companies such as GameStop , DSW , Shoe Carnival and Destination XL .
The first online auction site was Onsale.com, founded by Jerry Kaplan in May 1995. [10] Onsale's business model had the company act as the seller. [9] In September 1995, eBay was founded by French-Iranian computer scientist Pierre Omidyar using a different approach to online auctions by facilitating person-to-person transactions. This was a ...