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eBay

eBay

eBay

1995

01

January

eBay was founded in 1995 as AuctionWeb.

1997

01

September

The company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay.

1997

01

December

eBay received $6.7 million in funding from Benchmark Capital.

2001

01

January

eBay had the largest userbase of any e-commerce site.

2008

01

February

eBay had expanded worldwide and had hundreds of millions of registered users, 15,000 employees, and $7.7 billion in revenues

2009

01

October

eBay completed the sale of Skype for $2.75 billion but retained 30% equity.

2012

01

January

eBay was charged by the United States Department of Justice with entering into non-solicitation agreements with other technology companies involving their highly skilled employees.

2015

18

July

eBay turned PayPal into a separate publicly-traded company.

2018

31

January

eBay announced its plan to remove PayPal as the primary payment provider and adopt Netherlands-based start-up, Adyen, by 2021.

eBay acquired a 5.59 percent stake in Paytm Mall.