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Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar, June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire. A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, [ 6 ] he is the founder of eBay, where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. [ 7 ][ 6 ] Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004.
Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [ 1 ] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003.
Code Name: S.T.E.A.M., known in Japan with the subtitle Lincoln vs. Aliens[a], is a turn-based strategy video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. [3][4] The story is set in an alternate steampunk -based history and features a Silver Age comic book art style and a cast of ...
Hoping to monetize his find, Kluge put the recipe up for auction online, with a "Buy It Now" price of $15 million. That option was apparently irresistible to some teenage eBay user, who pledged ...
NBC. Release. January 27. (1985-01-27) –. April 26, 1985. (1985-04-26) Code Name: Foxfire is an hour-long American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from January to April 1985 about a group of three female operatives, secretly working on behalf of the president of the United States. [1][2]
eBay office in Toronto, Canada. eBay Inc. (/ ˈiːbeɪ / EE-bay, often stylized as ebay and/or Ebay) is an American multinational e-commerce company based in San Jose, California, that allows users to buy or view items via retail sales through online marketplaces and websites in 190 markets worldwide. Sales occur either via online auctions or ...
The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin confer or conferatur, both meaning 'compare') [1] is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed. Style guides recommend that "cf." be used only to suggest a comparison, and the words "see" or "vide" be used generally to point to a source ...
[citation needed] TRIGON, for example, was the code name for Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the former Soviet Union, whom the CIA developed as a spy; [4] HERO was the code name for Col. Oleg Penkovsky, who supplied data on the nuclear readiness of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. [5]