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eBay Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
United States - Map
Phone: 408-376-7425
Fax: 408-376-7401
Web Site: http://www.ebay.com

DETAILS 
Index Membership:S&P 500
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Nasdaq 100
Sector:Services
Industry:Catalog & Mail Order Houses
Full Time Employees:16,200

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
eBay Inc. and its subsidiaries provide online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services, online payments services, and online communication offerings to individuals and businesses in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Marketplaces, Payments, and Communications. The Marketplaces segment provides online commerce platforms that enable buyers and sellers to interact and trade with one another. It enables online commerce through various platforms, including the traditional eBay.com platform and other online platforms, such as StubHub, Kijiji, Den Bla Avis, Gumtree.com, LoQUo.com, OpusForum, Marktplaats.nl, and mobile.de, as well as Half.com, Rent.com, and Shopping.com. This segment also provides various services, including feedback forum, safe harbor program, verified rights owner program, loyalty programs, customer support, and tools and services. The Payments segment offers PayPal, a payments platform that enables individuals or businesses with an email address to send and receive payments online. Its services include joining the network, verification of its PayPal’s account holders, withdrawing money, and trust and safety programs, including PayPal’s seller protection and buyer protection programs. This segment also provides Bill Me Later, a payment solution, which offers transactional credit at the point of sale for the U.S. online consumers. The Communications segment consists of Skype, an Internet communication product, which enables voice over Internet protocol communications between Skype users, as well as provides Skype users connectivity to traditional fixed-line and mobile telephones. This segment offers its software in approximately 28 languages. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    eBay Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 85.7% of S&P 500 companies and 98.8% of Software & Services companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Pierre M. Omidyar , 42
    Founder and Chairman
    $ 0N/A
    Mr. John J. Donahoe ,
    Chief Exec. Officer, Pres
    $ 1.38M $ 0
    Mr. Robert H. Swan , 48
    Chief Financial Officer and Sr. VP of Fin.
    $ 897.00K $ 0
    Mr. Scott Thompson , 51
    Pres of Paypal
    $ 556.00K $ 0
    Ms. Lorrie Norrington , 49
    Pres of eBay Marketplaces
    $ 618.00K $ 0
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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