About ebay

ca-pub-8661721898834303 Details of ebay eBay Inc. EBay logo.svg EBay headquarters 2018.jpg eBay headquarters in San Jose, California Type Public Traded as NASDAQ: EBAY NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component Industry Internet Founded September 3, 1995; 23 years ago (Originally as AuctionWeb) Founder Pierre Omidyar Headquarters San Jose, California, U.S. Area served Worldwide Key people Thomas J. Tierney (Chairman) Devin Wenig (CEO) Services Online shopping Revenue Increase US$10.746 billion (2018)[1] Operating income Decrease US$2.265 billion (2017)[1] Net income Decrease US$-1.016 billion (2017)[1] Total assets Increase US$25.981 billion (2017)[1] Total equity Decrease US$8.063 billion (2017)[1] Number of employees ~14,100 (December 2017)[1] Subsidiaries Auction Co., eBayClassifieds, Kijiji, iBazar, GittiGidiyor, Gumtree, G-Market, Stubhub, Half.com, Marktplaats.nl, Qoo10.jp Website www.ebay.com eBay Inc. (/ˈiːˌbeɪ/ EE-bay) is an American multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in the autumn of 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble. eBay is a multibillion-dollar business with operations in about 30 countries, as of 2011.[2] The company manages the eBay website, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a wide variety of goods and services worldwide. The website is free to use for buyers, but sellers are charged fees for listing items after a limited number of free listings, and again when those items are sold.[3] In addition to eBay's original auction-style sales, the website has evolved and expanded to include: instant "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by Universal Product Code, ISBN, or other kind of SKU number (via Half.com, which was shut down in 2017); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji, or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); and other services. eBay previously offered online money transfers as part of its services (via PayPal,[4] which was a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay from 2002 to 2015).[5