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eBay Inc. is the world’s leading e-commerce company. It was founded as an online auction site in 1995 called AuctionWeb by Pierre Omidyar. He said: “What I wanted to do was create an efficient market, where regular people could compete with big business…It was a little bit of an experiment.” He changed the name in 1997 to be similar to his company Echo Bay Technology Group. Within two years of starting, the company hosted 2,000,000 auctions. The company website explains the success story to date: “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…In 2009, the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion -- $2,000 every second.” The company employs over 15,000 people throughout the world.
易贝是全球领先的电子商务公司。它是一个能够在线上进行拍卖的网站，该网站由皮埃尔·奥米迪亚在1995年成立，当时的名字叫作AuctionWeb。他说：“我就是想创作出一个高效率的网站，普通人能够在那里做大买卖。这其实是一种尝试。”1997年，他将公司名称更名叫Echo Bay技术集团公司。就在公司成立的两年时间内，举办了200万场拍卖会。该公司的网站上分享了他们的成功故事：“全世界有超过9000万用户，易贝是世界上最大的网络市场，不论你是谁，你都可以在网站上销售或是购买事物。2009年，易贝的销售值达到了600亿美金，每秒钟就会销售2000美金。该公司在全球拥有15000名员工。
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