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About eBay
eBay was born over Labor Day weekend in 1995, when Pierre Omidyar, a computer programmer, wrote the code for an auction website that he ran from his home computer.
Today, Omidyar's hobby is known as eBay, the world's largest online marketplace - where practically anyone can sell practically anything at any time. It's an idea that BusinessWeek once called "nothing less than a virtual, self-regulating global economy."
With a presence in 39 markets, including the U.S., and approximately 84 million active users worldwide, eBay has changed the face of Internet commerce. In 2007, the total value of sold items on eBay's trading platforms was nearly $60 billion. This means that eBay users worldwide trade more than $1,900 worth of goods on the site every second.
The benefit to consumers is clear: eBay provides an open trading platform where the market determines the value of items that are sold. Over the years, the site has become a cultural barometer of sorts, providing a view into what objects consumers want most at any time.
Since its initial public offering in 1998, the company has continued to innovate and connect people - and not just through its marketplaces. Two critical acquisitions have made eBay Inc. a global leader in online payments and communications as well.
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“ The eBay win is a testimonial to the merits of flash in large-scale environments and a significant vote of confidence for Nimbus' combination of network-attached flash storage with management software. ”
In eBay Buys 100 Terabytes of Nimbus Flash Memory
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Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...s many cities or countries. That’s one reason that Nicira made its debut with users including AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace. “Nicira allows us to repurpose network infrastructure on-...
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A New Net
Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...ition to NTT and Rackspace, its customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, and eBay. And in Casado, Nicira has a figure widely recognized by competitors and colleagues alike as a fier...
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Adobe Adds 400 Kilowatts of Bloom Fuel Cells
Explore Greentech Media (Feb 2 2012) Emissions , Fuel Cell
... magnitude larger than Bloom’s biggest projects so far with California customers such as Google, eBay, Adobe and AT&T, as well as Bloom’s pilot projects with California utilities Pacific Gas & Electric...
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Comment Mentions: Google Adobe Kleiner Perkins
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Under the covers of eBay’s big data operation
For online auction powerhouse eBay, big data is serious business. The company has 100 million active users globally, 300 million live ... (Read Full Article)
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Mozilla to Keynote Technology Convergence Conference
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 23 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
...ager Specialist at Kaiser Permanente; Dean Nelson, Senior Director, Global Foundational Services at eBay; and Chuck Rego, Chief Architect High Density Data Centers at Intel. A final track titled “Collabor...
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Jerry Yang, ‘Chief Yahoo,’ Steps Down From Board
Explore The New York Times (Jan 17 2012) Hydro
... Yahoo Japan. Mr. Yang’s departure comes less than two weeks after the board named Mr. Thompson, an eBay executive running its PayPal unit, as chief executive. Mr. Yang, who co-founded the company in 1995...
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Data Center Pulse to ‘Reset’ and Simplify Focus
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 13 2012) Construction
...er Pulse has helped organize an open RFP process for several modular data center design projects at eBay, where Nelson is now the Director of Global Foundation Services. The group also invested considerab...
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Yahoo Seeks to Rebrand Itself at Sundance
Explore The New York Times (Jan 5 2012) Hydro
...e is a reversal for the flagging company, which on Wednesday named Scott Thompson, the president of eBay’s PayPal, its new chief executive. Yahoo has had almost no festival presence in recent years, leavi...
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One year later, words to remember our Dear Friend Olivier Sanche
Explore greenm3.com (Dec 21 2011)
...o Apple to plant a tree in memory of Olivier. Her request was not answered, so I offered to contact eBay's VP of Technical Operations, Mazen Rawashdeh. Mazen supported the request and made the executive d...
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eBay Names Winner of Utah Design Contest
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 9 2011) Construction
...terstreet Architects & AHA Consulting Engineers has won a competition to design Phase II of a major eBay data center near Salt Lake City, Utah, beating out 20 other design teams that submitted plans for t...
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eBay to launch new data centre in Arizona
Explore Business Technology Leadership (Dec 2 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers
... cool-weather environments companies often choose to build data centers.
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Comment Mentions: eBay Mike Lewis
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EBay finishes data center in a very hot place
Explore Computerworld Singapore (Dec 1 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers
...cal cool-weather environments companies often choose to build data centers. But in about two weeks, eBay will formally open its latest data center there, a facility the company hopes will be used for as l... (Read Full Article)
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EBay finishes data center in a very hot place
Explore ITworld (Nov 30 2011) Power and Cooling
...te of the typical cool-weather environments companies often choose to build data centers. read more EBay's latest data center keeps servers cool despite the 100-degree heat in Phoenix Temperatures in Phoe...
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Comment Mentions: Interactive Data Corporation eBay Mike Lewis
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Bits Blog: EBay's Plans for Hunch: Recommendations Galore
Explore Technology (Nov 21 2011)
EBay has been adding new technologies to its arsenal lately in an effort to overhaul its retail identity...
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Big Data Knows You, Even If You Don't Know Big Data
Explore Forbes.com (Nov 15 2011)
...y 160 percent, he said, quoting a study by Hortonworks CEO Eric Baldeschwieler. Baer also said that eBay and Teradata have designed a 37 petabyte store of structured and unstructured data. Big Data Knows ...
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