Competitors
This online giant was founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos
What is Amazon?
This online video communication service was acquired by eBay in 2005
What is Skype?
Ebay was founded in this year.
What is 1995
Omidyar invented this company in 1995
What is eBay
Ebay announced that it was selling its India business to Flipkart for how much equity stake in the Indian e-commerce start up?
What is 500 million
Former largest online competitor of eBay
What is Yahoo?
eBay acquired this online ticket marketplace for $310 million in 2007
What is Stub Hub?
Paypal was acquired by eBay in this year
What is 1998?
This president of eBay marketplace since 2011, took charge of the company as its new CEO in July of 2015.
Devin Wenig
Ebay acknowledged its inability to grow and compete in certain international markets. Ebay had created localized sites in how many countries?
What is 30 countries
This online retailer allows people to list and sell their homemade and handcrafted items
What is Etsy?
This service was predicted by 2013 to account for 75-80% of eBay's transactions, founded in 1998 and purchased by eBay in 2002
What is PayPal?
What is 2010
In 1998 Omiydar and Skoll became instant billionaires by launching what?
What is an Initial Public Offering
Ebay enabled e-commerce at multiple levels through an array of websites, name one of those websites.
what is eBay marketplaces, or PayPal, or Rent.
This Internet giant competed with eBay in online retailing, but not in online auctioning
What is Google?
The first known auctions occurred in 500 B.C. in this Kingdom
What is Babylon
This person stepped down as President and CEO in 2008
Who is Meg Whitman
Ebay sold a majority stake of the Latin American platform in what year?
What is 2016
John Donahoe said "We are the global leader in _________, with top positions in Canada, Austrailia, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom, and sites in more than 1,0000 cities across 20 countries."
What is classifieds
Omidyar created a format consisting of 5 main values for online auctioning. Name three
1. People are basically good
2. Everyone has something to contribute
3. An honest, open environment can bring out the best in people.
4. Everyone deserves recognition and respect as a unique individual
5. You should treat others the way you want to be treated
Ebay's overall strategy had traditionally comprised three primary components. Name these components.
What are products, sense of community, ans aggressive expansion.