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.

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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 ...

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 (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.

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 ...

eBay CEO Devin Wenig at the 2018 GeekWire Summit. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire) Next year eBay will launch a new delivery service to speed up shipments between buyers and sellers on its e ...

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.