- Wed Oct 23 2002 eBay execs defend IPO share grab
CEO Meg Whitman sends an e-mail to employees to offer her side of the story in an IPO share controversy.
Posted by Troy Wolverton
- Fri Apr 26 2002 eBay's tech chief earned more than CEO
Chief Executive Meg Whitman made over $380,000 last year, while the company's president of technology brought home $1.1 million. However, the discrepancy was by design.
Posted by Margaret Kane
- Tue Jan 24 2006 Google co-founders cash in
Google's triumvirate have made billions off stock sales since company went public, but there's still a lot more where that came from.
Posted by Elinor Mills
- Mon Jul 12 2004 Google founders trump Gates in U.K. media elite
Larry Page and Sergie Brin join a newspaper's top 100 power list, while the Microsoft chairman slips off.
Posted by Graeme Wearden
- Mon Apr 11 2005 Techies make Time's influential list
Posted by Ina Fried
- Thu Jul 16 1998 eBay acquires Jump
The personal online trading community puchases Jump, the developer and operator of Up4Sale, an advertising-supported trading service.
Posted by Sandeep Junnarkar
- Fri Aug 13 2004 eBay buys into Craigslist
Craig Newmark, founder of the all-purpose community Web site, says eBay was "interested in us for all the right reasons."
Posted by Dinesh C. Sharma
- Mon Feb 25 2008 eBay's latest buy: New CEOs for Skype, Shopping.com
Shopping.com's CEO, Josh Silverman, will take the helm of Skype, which has not had a permanent chief executive since co-founder Niklas Zennstrom stepped down in October.
Posted by Caroline McCarthy
- Thu Jul 22 1999 eBay suffers outage despite assurances
Days after telling members it has strengthened its computer systems to improved reliability, the popular auction site suffers an unscheduled outage for more than an hour.
Posted by Tim Clark
- Mon Jun 14 1999 eBay waives fees after major outage
eBay is waiving several million dollars in listing fees after a nearly 22-hour service outage halted 2.3 million auctions and sent its stock sliding.
Posted by Kim Girard