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List of acquisitions by eBay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of acquisitions by eBay

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search eBay is an online auction website launched on September 3, 1995.[1] Each acquisition is for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between eBay and the subject of the acquisition. The value of each acquisition is listed in United States dollars because eBay is headquartered in the United States. If the value of an acquisition is not listed, then it is undisclosed. As of April 2008, eBay's most expensive acquisition was the purchase of Skype, a Voice over Internet Protocol company, for US$2.6 billion. The majority of companies acquired by eBay are based in the United States. A total of 26 companies have been acquired as of April 2008. Most of the acquired companies are related to online auctions.

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[hide] 1 Acquisitions 2 Footnotes 3 References

[edit] Acquisitions
Acquisition date July 16, 1998 April 27, 1999 May 18, 1999 May 18, 1999 June 22, 1999 October 1999 Company Up4Sale.com Butterfield & Butterfield Billpoint Kruse International Alando Blackthorne Business Online auction Auction house E-commerce payment systems Car-auction company Auction house Listing Tool Country United States United States United States United States Germany United Value (USD) References $260,000,000 $43,000,000
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June 13, 2000 December 12, 2000 January 8, 2001 March 5, 2001 July 8, 2002 January 31, 2003 July 11, 2003 January 24, 2004 June 22, 2004 August 14, 2004

Half.com

Online marketplace

States United States United States South Korea France United States United States China Germany India United States Netherlands United States Spain United Kingdom Israel Germany Luxembourg Sweden Canada United States Turkey United States Israel United

$318,000,000 $120,000,000 $66,000,000 $1,500,000,000 $150,000,000 $152,000,000 $50,000,000 $13,500,000 $290,000,000 $415,000,000 $620,000,000 $2,600,000,000 $48,000,000 $75,000,000 $310,000,000 $10,000,000 $169,000,000 $1,200,000,000

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Precision Buying E-commerce payment systems Service[1] Internet Auction Online auction Co. iBazar PayPal CARad.com EachNet mobile.de Baazee.com Craigslist[2] Online auction E-commerce payment systems Online auction Electronic commerce Vehicles classifieds Online auction Classified advertising Classified advertising Classified advertising Classified advertising Classified advertising Price comparison service Voice over Internet Protocol Online auction

November 10, 2004 Marktplaats.nl December 16, 2004 Rent.com May 18, 2005 May 19, 2005 June 2, 2005 June 30, 2005 Loquo Gumtree Shopping.com

OpusForum.org Classified advertising

September 13, 2005 Skype Limited[3] April 24, 2006 May 30, 2007 January 10, 2007 May 3, 2007 March 9, 2006 January 29, 2008 October 6, 2008 Tradera

StumbleUpon[4] Browser plugin StubHub GittiGidiyor Meetup.com[5] Fraud Sciences Bill Me Later Electronic commerce Electronic commerce Social network service Online risk management Electronic Commerce

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States October 6, 2008 January 8, 2009 March 15, 2010 June 23, 2010 dba.dk & bilbasen.dk Positronic Inc. Magento RedLaser Classified advertising Machine learning Electronic Commerce Mobile applications Shopping Engine Denmark United States United States United States United States United States United States United States Israel United States United States United States $22,500,000 $10,000,000 $75,000,000 $2,400,000,000 $135,000,000 $240,000,000 $50,000,000 $80,000,000
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$390,000,000

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December 2, 2010 Milo.com March 28, 2011 March 28, 2011 July 7, 2011

GSI Commerce Marketing/Fulfillment WHERE Inc. Zong Local Search and Recommendation Payments through mobile carrier billing Group purchasing of gifts Product recommendations Local Events Social shopping

September 8, 2011 The Gifts Project September 8, 2011 hunch December 11, 2011 Zvents September 6, 2012 Svpply

[edit] Footnotes
^ 1 Purchased from Deja News ^ 2 25% of the company was purchased. ^ 3 In April 2009, eBay announced plans to spin off Skype in a 2010 IPO, citing a "poor fit" for the company.[42] ^ 4 eBay sold StumbleUpon in April 2010 to a group of private investors consisting of cofounders Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith, along with private equity firms Sherpalo Ventures, Accel Partners, and August Capital.[43] ^ 5 10% of the company was purchased.

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