That all changed in 1995. The e-commerce company, founded by Pierre Omidya, was originally called ‘AuctionWeb.’ The first item ever purchased was a broken laser pointer, listed by Omidyar himself.

With a market cap of $42.3 billion, eBay Inc. (EBAY) is a global e-commerce company that connects millions of buyers and ...

eBay’s EBAY shares have risen 22.8% in the year-to-date period, outperforming the Zacks Internet-Commerce industry’s rally of 12%. The company is gaining from the growing momentum in its e ...

Over the past five years, eBay’s stock has shown a notable tendency towards negative one-day returns following earnings ...

SOAP, or Simple Object Access Protocol, is an XML-based protocol for e-commerce transactions, based on technology developed by Microsoft, IBM and others.

The market expects eBay (EBAY) to deliver a year-over-year increase in earnings on higher revenues when it reports results for the quarter ended June 2025. This widely-known consensus outlook is ...

This will help tremendously as the e-commerce sales come back to Earth a bit. AWS revenues grew 37% in 2019, another 30% in 2020, and are expected to grow more than 25% in fiscal 2021.

E-commerce heavyweight eBay is suing rival Amazon, alleging that managers at the Seattle tech giant conspired to poach e-commerce sellers through eBay’s own messaging platform. This is the ...

eBay's strategic refocus on non-new, pre-owned items insulates it from larger e-commerce competitors like Amazon and Alibaba, which rely heavily on volume to achieve cost-leadership. eBay's value ...

In the first three months of the year, eBay's gross merchandise volume - a widely watched figure for the e-commerce industry's performance - slumped 20% to $19.4 billion.

eBay (EBAY -0.92%) and Amazon (AMZN -0.57%) were both founded in the mid-1990s and revolutionized online shopping. eBay was the first online auction platform for person-to-person transactions ...