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eBay, Inc. is an American multinational e-commerce company, facilitating online consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales. It is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble.
The company has been a pioneer in online auctions, and one of the first to use the Internet to allow consumers to bid on and purchase items. eBay went public in 1998, and today has a market capitalization of over $40 billion. The company operates in over 30 countries, and allows users to trade goods and services in more than 190 different currencies.
