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eBay Inc. (/ ˈiːbeɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay and/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 it now" instant sales, and ...
Gumtree.com, known as Gumtree, is a British-based online classified advertisement and community website based at Hotham House, Richmond, London. Classified ads are either free or paid for depending on the product category and the geographical market. As of November 2010, it was the UK's largest website for local community classifieds and was ...
Arthur Oswin Austin (1879–1964) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. He is best known as the inventor of the Austin transformer, used to supply power for lighting circuits on radio towers. Austin's work included improvements to radio transmission equipment and the effects of lightning on high-voltage transmission lines and aircraft.
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.
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In May 2010, Buy.com was acquired by Rakuten, Inc., the largest e-commerce retailer in Japan, [3] [15] for $250 million in cash. [16] [17] This was considered Rakuten's attempt to enter the American e-retail market, [16] and to compete globally with e-commerce competitors such as Amazon.com and eBay. [3]
StubHub was founded in March 2000 as a class project [7] by Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr, both former Stanford Business School students and investment bankers. [8] One of its first major sports deals was with the Seattle Mariners in 2001. [9] In 2002, eBay was in talks to acquire StubHub for US$20 million, although the agreement had later "fallen ...
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