eBay Inc.: A Short History
eBay was born over Labor Day weekend in 1995, when Pierre Omidyar, a computer programmer, wrote the code for an auction website that he ran from his home computer.
Today, Omidyar`s hobby is known as eBay, the world`s largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. It`s an idea that BusinessWeek once called `nothing less than a virtual, self-regulating global economy.`
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