"was already registered to a Canadian mining company, Echo Bay Mines. He originally wanted the ""Echo Bay"" name because of the recreational area near Lake Mead, Nevada because it ""sounded cool."" When he found out that echobay.com was taken, he simply dropped the ""cho"", and ebay.com was born. The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media. This was revealed in Adam Cohen's 2002 book, and confirmed by eBay. Jeffrey Skoll joined the company in 1996. In March 1998, Meg"
"Online SAS Online SAS (also known as Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a 100% subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Dedibox and Scaleway brands, domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Iliad datacenter. The company is the second player in his domain in France with over Gb/s of Internet traffic. In 1999 Online started its activities in web hosting and domain name registration services In August 2002 the domain"
"McKinsey, before leaving to join Courage Capital, a global special- situations hedge fund, to lead their India tech and investing efforts After Courage Capital, Sinha joined Omidyar Network, founded by Pam and Pierre Omidyar. Till December 2013, he was a partner at ON and the Managing Director of Omidyar Network India Advisors. He also served on Omidyar Network's five - member global executive committee. During his time there, Omidyar's India portfolio grew to over 35 companies and organizations totaling investments worth over $100 million. He also helped in funding the Indian Impact Investing Council. Sinha has served on the boards"
"on his links at their weathermap and is present at the following Internet Exchange Points: France-IX, Equinix-IX, AMS-IX et Neutral Internet Exchange Online SAS Online SAS (also known as Online.net) is a French Cloud computing and web hosting company, founded by Xavier Niel in 1999 and a 100% subsidiary of the Iliad group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Dedibox and Scaleway brands, domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Iliad datacenter. The company is the second player in his domain in France with over Gb/s"
"after a limited number of free listings, and again when those items are sold. In addition to its original auction-style sales, the website has since evolved and expanded to include ""Buy It Now"" shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU number (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); and other services. It previously offered online money transfers (via PayPal, which was a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay from 2002 to 2015). The AuctionWeb was founded in California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar"
"the U.S., according to a report by the Iranian Studies group at MIT. Iranian-Americans have founded, or hold senior leadership positions at, many major US companies, including Fortune 500 companies such as GE, Intel, Citigroup, Verizon, Motorola, Google, and AT&T. Pierre Omidyar, founder/CEO of eBay is of Iranian origin, as well as is the founder of Bratz, Isaac Larian. Hamid Biglari is Vice-Chairman of Citicorp. Bob Miner was the co-founder of Oracle Corporation and the producer of Oracle's relational database management system. In 2006, Anousheh Ansari, co-founder of the Ansari X Prize, became the first female tourist in space. Ansari"
"Haladjian bought the company he was working for, and in 1999, he sold all his Minitel businesses to the Neocom Multimedia Group. On 8 June 1994, Rafi Haladjian founded FranceNet, one of the first Internet companies in France. FranceNet offers dialup Internet Connection using the POTN as well as access through the French voice services network (Audiotel) allowing users to pay by the minute without signing for a subscription. He also created FranceWeb, an online directory of the French Web allowing all the new users of the network to find their way on the Internet. In 1995, he diversified his"
"of $4.7 million in the United States. The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager, Mary Lou Song, in 1997 to interest the media, which were not interested in the company's previous explanation about wanting to create a ""perfect market"". This was revealed in Adam Cohen's book, ""The Perfect Store"" (2002), and confirmed by eBay. After eBay went public, both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires. eBay's target share price of $18 was all but ignored as the price went to $53.50 on the first"
"markets to create opportunity for people to improve their lives. It was established in 2004 by Omidyar and his wife, Pam. The organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. To date, Omidyar Network has committed more than $992 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including Property Rights, Governance & Citizen Engagement, Education, Financial Inclusion and Consumer & Internet Mobile. In 2010, he and his wife established, along with Richard Branson and the Nduna Foundation (founded by Amy Robbins), Enterprise"
"Pierre Lamond on such investments as Square, Groupme (acquired by Skype), and Ness Technologies. He has served on the boards of such companies as Ness Technologies and Storify. Ramy Adeeb Ramy Adeeb is the founder and CEO of social curation platform Snip.it and is a former venture capitalist investor in start-ups such as Square and Groupme. Originally from Egypt, Adeeb founded Snip.it in spring 2011 while looking for a way to share relevant information regarding the Arab Spring uprisings. As of Sept. 2012, Snip.it had about 20,000 registered users who create content and 100,000 who browse it. Average time spent"
"product division into a subsidiary known as CommerceServer.net. In November 2013, Sitecore acquired CommerceServer.net. In August 2014, Sitecore released Sitecore Commerce Server 11. Microsoft Commerce Server Microsoft Commerce Server is a Microsoft product for building e-commerce systems using Microsoft .NET technology. In 1996, Microsoft purchased the core software that formed the basis for the Commerce Server product line from eShop. eShop was co-founded by Pierre Omidyar, one of the founders of eBay. In 1997, the software was re-branded to Microsoft Merchant Server, then Microsoft Site Server, eventually being renamed to Microsoft Commerce Server in 2000. Initially released in 2000, Commerce"
"in 2016 by Private Equity International. In 2017, LeapFrog was ranked fifth on ""Fortune"" magazine's 2017 Change the World list. LeapFrog Investments LeapFrog Investments is a private investment firm that invests in high-growth financial services and healthcare companies in emerging markets. The firm's investments have an annual growth rate of more than 40% and its companies reach approximately 130 million consumers, primarily in Africa and Asia. LeapFrog has attracted over $1 billion from global investors since inception, including funds from investors such as Prudential Financial, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, TIAA-CREF and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network. LeapFrog was founded"
"Internet network machines. The first real public service provider was WorldNet which opened in February 1994 at the Computer Associates Expo. FranceNet, founded by Rafi Haladjian, launched its service in June 1994. These were followed by order Calvacom, Internet Way and Imaginet. AOL was a great success between 1996 and 2000 through its widely distributed, free CDs, and with attractive prices for low speeds. On 3 December 2008, France had 16.3 million broadband connections, of which 94% are ADSL subscribers. This makes France the second largest ADSL market in Europe. At the end of 2005, 30% of those DSL lines"
"WildPackets famous for their OmniPeek protocol analysis software. Kimura received the 2002 SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He was honored as the 2007 Green Entrepreneur, and received the Blue Planet Foundation award in 2009. He also received the Hawaii Venture Capital Association Deal of the Year award in 2012. He was named to the 2010 ""Hawaii Business Magazine""s ""10 for Today"", along with other Hawaii luminaries such as professional baseball player Shane Victorino, and founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, and was named to the ""Pacific Business News""s ""10 to Watch in 2013"", along with video game developer and"
"Akamai, Facebook, Amazon, Yahoo!, Zayo Group, CANARIE, CBC, CenturyLink, CloudFlare, Cogeco, Digital Ocean, Distributel, Eastlink, Fastly, iTeraTEL, Limelight Networks, LinkedIn, Microsoft, ORION, OVH, Primus Canada, Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications, Stackpath, TekSavvy, Twitch, Frontier Networks, Freedom Mobile and Vianet Inc. Compared to commercial Internet transit pricing in Canada, the per-megabit cost of being a typical TorIX peer works out to cents-on-the-dollar, versus tens of dollars per megabit. According to Job Snijders' IXP Pricing List, TorIX is one of the lowest cost IXP's in the entire world. Most commercial Internet transit agreements require a minimum traffic commitment level, which the customer must"
"started his first company, Obongo with Samir Palnitkar in 1999. Obongo was an online identity management service offering single sign-on, eWallet and email spam control. It soon attracted a lot of attention from the top silicon valley investors and was funded by Sequoia Capital. Obongo generated a reach of over 40 million users before getting acquired by AOL in 2001. As a senior executive at AOL, Rawat led the teams driving AOL's online commerce and mobile strategy. In 2003 Rawat co-founded another company, AirTight Networks. AirTight provides secure Wi-Fi solutions and is being used by hundreds of businesses such as"
"Africa Internet Group which has $469 million in 4 Rounds from six investors transferred six of its companies to Yaba in 2014. In same 2014 BudgIT received $400,000 grant from Omidyar. Mid 2016, Andela – a Nigerian-founded talent accelerator for programmers that has campuses in Lagos, Nairobi and New York – received $24 million in investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. In 2015 Hotels.ng, which claims to be the largest hotel booking site in Nigeria secured $1.2 million in funding from Omidyar Network to expand its listings across Africa. A number of startups including Iroko – the biggest digital retailer"
"three children, and lives in Paris. Xavier Niel Xavier Niel (born 25 August 1967) is a French billionaire businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry and best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and Mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand (France's second-largest ISP, and third mobile operator). He is also co-owner of the newspaper ""Le Monde"",<ref name=""http://www.ft.com/""></ref> and co-owner of the rights of the song ""My Way"" and owner of Monaco Telecom. He is deputy chairman and chief strategy officer for Iliad. As of April 2018, his net worth is estimated"
"talks with international investors to increase the size of the round up to $5–6 million. Aventurres representatives sits at the boards at Jooble and Depositphotos companies. Andrey Kolodyuk Andrey Kolodyuk is a serial entrepreneur and venture capital investor. He started his entrepreneurial career in New York in 1992 and eventually has founded and built over 10 companies in IT, telecom, internet and media with $1 Billion total revenues. In 2008 he exited from previous companies and started a new one Divan.TV – one of the pioneers of TV streaming OTT service for ethnic groups available in 200 countries worldwide. In"
"Xavier Niel Xavier Niel (born 25 August 1967) is a French billionaire businessman, active in the telecommunications and technology industry and best known as founder and majority shareholder of the French Internet service provider and Mobile operator Iliad trading under the Free brand (France's second-largest ISP, and third mobile operator). He is also co-owner of the newspaper ""Le Monde"",<ref name=""http://www.ft.com/""></ref> and co-owner of the rights of the song ""My Way"" and owner of Monaco Telecom. He is deputy chairman and chief strategy officer for Iliad. As of April 2018, his net worth is estimated at US$6.1 billion. Niel started early"
"Microsoft Commerce Server Microsoft Commerce Server is a Microsoft product for building e-commerce systems using Microsoft .NET technology. In 1996, Microsoft purchased the core software that formed the basis for the Commerce Server product line from eShop. eShop was co-founded by Pierre Omidyar, one of the founders of eBay. In 1997, the software was re-branded to Microsoft Merchant Server, then Microsoft Site Server, eventually being renamed to Microsoft Commerce Server in 2000. Initially released in 2000, Commerce Server replaced Microsoft Site Server, expanding on the functionality and establishing a focus on e-commerce functionality (rather than concerning itself with document management"
"the free service in 2004. The service first became available in 1999 and carried multiple brands during a spell of affiliations with different web services provider. Although originally made available by Odigo, Inc., the service was supplied by Comverse, who used it to help innovate and forward their wireless products. The word Odigo comes from the Greek ""οδηγώ"" which means ""I guide/lead/drive/steer"". Odigo reported that, two hours before the September 11, 2001 attacks, two of their employees who were working in an Odigo office in Herzliya Pituah, a city near Tel Aviv, received a hostile English electronic instant message non-specifically"
"Alexis Ohanian Alexis Kerry Ohanian (born April 24, 1983) is an American Internet entrepreneur and investor, who is co-founder and executive chairman of the social news website Reddit. He also co-founded the early stage venture capital firm Initialized Capital, helped launch the travel search website Hipmunk, and started the social enterprise Breadpig. Ohanian is based in San Francisco, and was a partner at Y Combinator. In 2012, Andy Greenberg of ""Forbes"" magazine dubbed him ""Mayor of the Internet"". Ohanian was born in Brooklyn, New York, to a German-born mother, Anke ( Prigge) and Chris Ohanian, an Armenian-American whose grandparents came"
"by developing telecommunication and data services and embarked at a young age on an entrepreneurial career soon after his father gave him a Sinclair ZX81 computer as a birthday present. At 19, he successfully created then sold his first company, a Minitel (a French forerunner of the internet) service company. This minitel-site provided sex oriented chat services. In 1995, he invested in the first Internet Service Provider in France, World-NET, created the previous year by Sébastien Socchard, Philippe Langlois and Pierre Séguret. This company was sold the year before the internet bubble burst. After taking over a company subsequently renamed"
"as part of a larger personal site. One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: ""I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."" Reportedly, eBay was simply a side hobby for Omidyar until his Internet service provider informed him he would need to upgrade to a business account due to the high volume of traffic to his website. The resulting price increase (from $30/month to $250) forced him to start"
"- Atlantic was founded by Paul Radat and Pierre Lamoure. 1973 - Guillot was acquired 1986 - Thermor & Sauter were acquired 1989 - Pacific was acquired 1993 - Elge was acquired 2000 - Ygnis (Switzerland) was acquired (the first acquisition outside France) 2002 - Franco-Belge was acquired 2004 - The Cairo (Egypt) site was created 2006 - Magnum was acquired 2006 - The Odessa (Ukraine) site was created 2007 - The Izmir (Turkey) site was created 2008 - Hamworthy (United Kingdom) was taken over 2008 - The Fontaine (France) site was created 2011 - Lazzarini (Italy) and Erensan (Turkey)"
"browser into an online service at the Prodigy network. Following Prodigy, Kurnit joined MCI to oversee MCI's attempts to grow its business in the Internet market. Kurnit founded About.com and served as its CEO during its growth to a public market value of $1.5 billion. About.com was acquired by PRIMEDIA in 2001, and later sold again to the New York Times Company in 2005. Kurnit left the CEO position in 2001 after the sale to Primedia. In 2002 a class action suit was brought against About.com, Primedia, (About's former owner) Kurnit and others. The court dismissed all claims against Kurnit"
"Iliad SA, Xavier Niel launched in 1996 the 1st reversed directory service on the Minitel. This service was responsible for 1 million euros of revenue per year for Iliad until the end of the minitel in France in 2012. Niel remains Iliad’s majority shareholder, holding 63.93% of the share capital. In 1999, he created Free, a French Internet service provider. The name came from the fact that modem access was really free, which caused some stir among other (non-free) French Internet providers, as well as it raised some questions about Free's business model. In 2002, Free launched a broadband package"
"as partners: Comat Technologies, Creative Commons, Digg, DonorsChoose, Endeavor, Federated Media Publishing, GlobalGiving, Goodmail, GuideStar, Linden Lab (developer of Second Life global virtual community), Media Development Investment Fund Meetup, Metaweb, ModestNeeds, Opportunity International, PRBC, Prosper, Rappler, SeaChange Capital Partners, Seesmic, Socialtext, Sunlight Foundation, Virgin Money, Wikia, World of Good. In 2017, Omidyar Network together with AVINA Americas and Avina Foundation founded the Latin American Alliance for Civic Technology (ALTEC) to invest in and support the development in Latin America of civic technology platforms and related scalable technologies. In 2009, the Omidyar Network donated $2 million over two years to the"
"1,100,934 sites have integrated OpenID consumer support: AOL, Blogger, Flickr, France Telecom, Google, Amazon.com, Canonical (provider name Ubuntu One), LiveJournal, Microsoft (provider name Microsoft account), Mixi, Myspace, Novell, OpenStreetMap, Orange, Sears, Sun, Telecom Italia, Universal Music Group, VeriSign, WordPress, Yahoo!, the BBC, IBM, PayPal, and Steam, although some of those organizations also have their own authentication management. Many if not all of the larger organizations require users to provide authentication in the form of an existing email account or mobile phone number in order to sign up for an account (which then can be used as an OpenID identity). There"
"taxi companies. Alexandre Taillefer Alexandre Taillefer is a Canadian entrepreneur from Quebec. He is the founder and managing partner of XPND Capital, a private equity firm. At 21, Taillefer became an entrepreneur, founding, in 1993, Intellia, an e-commerce service provider later bought by Quebecor, the largest media conglomerate in Quebec. Taillefer worked at Quebecor for five years (until 2000), where he lead the online division. He completed a number of mergers, including the merger of Informission with Intellia to create Nurun, now owned by Publicis. In 2007, he co-founded Stingray Digital, a provider of musical products and services, now one"
"LeapFrog Investments LeapFrog Investments is a private investment firm that invests in high-growth financial services and healthcare companies in emerging markets. The firm's investments have an annual growth rate of more than 40% and its companies reach approximately 130 million consumers, primarily in Africa and Asia. LeapFrog has attracted over $1 billion from global investors since inception, including funds from investors such as Prudential Financial, Swiss Re, JP Morgan, TIAA-CREF and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's Omidyar Network. LeapFrog was founded in January 2007 by Andrew Kuper and officially launched in 2008 by former US President Bill Clinton who endorsed the"
"Perion Network Perion is an Israel-based ad-tech company providing engagement and monetization applications for web and mobile based digital businesses. Their headquarters are in Holon, Israel, with offices in San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Milan, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Paris and Barcelona. Perion was formerly IncrediMail, an email company founded in 1999 by cousins Yaron and Ofer Adler. Soon after its founding, they raised $3.3 million from private and institutional sources and IPOed on NASDAQ in January 2006. They listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2007. Perion was managed by its original founders"