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 ...

If you are looking for a stock that has a solid history of beating earnings estimates and is in a good position to maintain the trend in its next quarterly report, you should consider eBay (EBAY).

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.

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 ...

In Q3 2000, e-commerce generated $7.3 billion, just 1% of total retail sales for the quarter. By Q3 2010, that number had risen to $43.5 billion, or 4.6% of quarterly retail sales (on an adjusted ...

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 ...

EBay’s share of the U.S. e-commerce and online auctions market stands at just 0.8 percent, according to a 2018 report by IBISWorld. Amazon dominates with just over 36 percent.