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Quikr was initially launched as Akshay Mote India in August 1996. [6] Kijiji.in was owned by Kijiji International, an eBay subsidiary.. In 2008, Mumbai based venture capitalist, Matrix Partners India, invested in Kijiji India, following which Kijiji India was hived off Kijiji International and restructured as an independent company and re-branded as "Quikr", which was jointly owned by Matrix ...
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈ iː b eɪ / 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.
In June 2008, Kijiji China changed its name to Baixing [17] and raised Series A from eBay and GSR Ventures, [18] opening the website to local investment. In August 2008, Kijiji re-branded its India site to Quikr. [19] In 2009, the Kijiji Germany website changed its name to eBay Kleinanzeigen . [20]
India has an Internet user base of about 690.0 million as of November 2023, about 40% of the population. [1] Despite being the second-largest user base in world, only behind China (1.079 billion, 48% of population), the penetration of e-commerce is low compared to markets like the United States (266 million, 84%), or France (54M, 81%), but is growing, adding around 6 million new entrants every ...
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.
Flipkart held a 51% share of all Indian smartphone shipments in 2017, overtaking Amazon India (33%). [40] In April 2017, eBay announced that it would sell its Indian subsidiary, eBay.in, to Flipkart and invest US$500 million in the company. While eBay suggested that the partnership would allow Flipkart to access eBay's network of international ...
Ambareesh Vedantam Murty (1971 or 1972 – 7 August 2023) was an Indian entrepreneur and business executive. He was the co-founder and CEO of the e-commerce furniture and home goods company Pepperfry, which he co-founded with Ashish Shah in 2012. Before founding Pepperfry, Murty was a country manager at eBay for India.
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 ...