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• A bit of EBay history

  Published: September 5, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Pierre Omidyar, E Bay, Ebay, Ebay Store, Ebay Story, E Bay Story, Ebay Birth

  the creation of a guy called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted that his website ( then called "AuctionWeb" ), to be a marketplace where people could sell and buy various items. He wrote the code for the site in one weekend. This site was the single one of its kind in the world at that time. The name of EBay comes from the

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• eBay demolishes "level playing field" for Buy.com [EBay]

  Published: June 17, 2008, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Ebay, Buy Com, E Commerce, Ebay Live, John Donahoe, Pierre Omidyar, Top

  reiterated here by founder Pierre Omidyar, in an interview with current CEO John Donahoe, just two months ago. In the video, Omidyar talks about how retailers shouldn't be rewarded "by virtue of their stature outside the online community." And yet isn't that exactly what eBay has done for Buy.com? Donahoe is set to address eBay sellers in a

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