eBay

eBay Inc. (/ˈiːˌbeɪ/ EE-bay) is a 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 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 eBay.com, 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]

eBay Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: EBAY NASDAQ-100 Component S&P 500 Component
Industry	Internet
Founded	September 3, 1995; 22 years ago (as AuctionWeb)
Founder	Pierre Omidyar
Headquarters	San Jose, California, U.S.
Key people	Thomas J. Tierney(Chairman) Devin Wenig (CEO)
Services	Online shopping
Revenue	US$9.567 billion(2017)[1]
Operating income	US$2.265 billion(2017)[1]
Net income	US$-1.016 billion(2017)[1]
Total assets	US$25.981 billion(2017)[1]
Total equity	US$8.063 billion(2017)[1]
Number of employees	~14,100 (December 2017)[1]
Subsidiaries	eBayClassifieds, Kijiji, iBazar, GittiGidiyor,Gumtree,G-Market, Stubhub, Half.com, Marktplaats.nl
Website	ebay.com

In addition to its original auction-style sales, the website has since evolved and expanded to include "Buy It Now" shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU number (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); and other services. It previously offered online money transfers (via PayPal,^[4] which was a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay from 2002 to 2015