eBay & Yahoo! in Japan: From Competition to Collaboration

Case Code: BSTR312
Case Length: 19 Pages
Period: 2000-2008
Pub Date: 2009
Teaching Note: Not Available

Price: Rs.300
Organization: eBay Inc., Yahoo! Inc.
Industry: E-commerce
Countries: Japan; Global
Themes: Competition, Collaboration, Entry Strategy, Expansion Strategy

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Background Note

eBay
eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar (Omidyar), a software programmer, in 1995 as AuctionWeb. eBay was incorporated in May 1996. It was a person-to-person trading community, where sellers could list the items they wanted to put on sale, and specify the minimum bid and duration of the auction...

Yahoo!
Yahoo was founded by two Stanford University Ph.D. students, Jerry Yang (Yang) and David Filo (Filo), in 1994 in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Yahoo initially started out as "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web,"a website that featured a directory of other websites...

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