As the world's leading e-commerce company, eBay Inc.'s global portfolio of businesses enables hundreds of millions of people to buy, sell and pay online. Take a closer look.
E-commerce
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With more than 90 million active users globally, eBay is the world's largest online marketplace, where practically anyone can buy and sell practically anything. Founded in 1995, eBay connects a diverse and passionate community of individual buyers and sellers, as well as small businesses. Their collective impact on e-commerce is staggering: In 2009, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion -- $2,000 every second. For the latest stories about eBay, including recent financial performance, visit our News Room.
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Payments
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With more than 87 million active registered accounts worldwide, PayPal has made it possible for people to pay and get paid online across different locations, currencies, and languages. Responding to the eBay community, which had quickly adopted PayPal as its preferred payment method, eBay Inc. acquired the company in 2002. Since then, PayPal's customer base has grown both on eBay and across e-commerce. Having built a single global payments engine that has some of the best risk and fraud detection capabilities in the payments industry, PayPal continues to be one of the leading ways to pay online. Today, PayPal is available in 190 markets, 24 currencies, and is accepted by millions of online merchants around the world.
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A leader in digital payments and flexible financing programs
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Partnerships & Investments
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Since its founding in 1995, eBay Inc. has consistently expanded its ability to connect people through e-commerce partnerships and investments around the world. These include Skype, a leading online communications service that enables people everywhere to communicate through voice or video online for free. eBay Inc. acquired Skype in 2005 and significantly expanded its customer base to more than 480 million registered users in nearly every country on earth. To focus on its core e-commerce and payments businesses, eBay Inc. sold a majority stake in Skype in November 2009, retaining a minority investment in the company.
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Selected Partnerships & Investments
Sustainability
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From promoting the use of products that already exist to paying without a paper check, all of our businesses empower people to do more with less. We are committed to extending this positive impact through vibrant, sustainable commerce experiences.
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