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| Jan.22 |
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Icahn wants eBay to spin off PayPal| Icahn had amassed roughly 0.82 percent of the company's stock and put forth two employees as candidates for election to the board of directors | |
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| Feb.24 |
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eBay, Carl Icahn drop gloves in PayPal fight The activist investor unleashed accusations of poor corporate governance and direct attacks against CEO John Donahoe and two board members
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| Mar.10 |
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eBay's fight with Carl Icahn enters late rounds eBay and investor Carl Icahn publicly chirp at each other again as the company officially rejects his director nominations
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| Mar.11 |
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eBay cuts chief executive John Donahoe's pay by 53% Donahoe was paid $13.8m, including salary and bonus, in 2013, down from $29.7m a year ago
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| Apr.30 |
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EBay shares fall 5 percent after earnings| The revenue may trail some estimates. The 1st-quarter loss of $2.3 billion is after taking a $3 billion tax charge to repatriate foreign earnings | |
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| May.5 |
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PayPal executive loses job over Twitter rant Director of strategy Rakesh 'Rocky' Agrawal is out after a vitriolic rant where he leveled an obscenity-laced tirade against his colleagues
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| May.21 |
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eBay makes users change passwords  | Online marketplace eBay is forcing users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems | |
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| Jun.9 |
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PayPal president David Marcus joining Facebook Marcus will serve as vice president of messaging products. He’ll oversee Facebook Messenger, which boasts more than 200 million app users
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| Jul.16 |
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eBay racked up profits of $676 million| 53 cents a share, on sales of $4.4 billion in the second quarter, gains of 5.6 percent for net income and 12.6 percent for revenues | |
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| Jul.31 |
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EBay has more female workers than many tech companies Women are 42% of staff, and 7% of employees are black, giving it a more diverse workforce than many other Silicon Valley technology companies
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| Sep.30 |
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EBay, PayPal to become separate companies Icahn was right: eBay said it will spin off its PayPal electronic-payments division into a separate public company
| Donahoe and EBay CFO Bob Swan will leave their roles although they will oversee the split.
Devin Wenig, president of eBay Marketplaces, will become eBay CEO, while Dan Schulman, an American Express executive, will now become PayPal president
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| Oct.15 |
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EBay misses earnings estimates EBay Inc.’s fourth-quarter sales forecast missed estimates as growth in its marketplaces unit lags behind the PayPal unit
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