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.