As eBay approaches its 25th birthday, the company has quite a story to tell — and a broken laser pointer that sold for $14.83 is the least of it.

On the day of the 20th anniversary of the first secure online transaction and the birth of ecommerce, Retail Week studies the big numbers from eBay’s history. The cost of the first item sold on eBay’s ...

Is eBay or Amazon the better stock for long-term investors and why does the answer have little to do with e-commerce after all? Read more to find out.

Later, it sold eBay Enterprise to an investment consortium for $925 million before shifting a portion of its stake in Indian ecommerce site Snapdeal, claiming a “strong return” on its initial ...