

Starting its first acquisition of an online auction site in 1998, today eBay has acquired over 40 companies. Acquisition eBay's management team has a very smart decision is focus on the acquisition strategy.

The increase in internet usage will present eBay with an opportunity to boost the number of buyers and sellers, not only in US but internationally bring eBay a chance to expand their marketplace to other countries. The unstoppable growth of Internet helps eBay to work their "Activation" strategy. Internet usage: According to Dave Chaffey, Internet enables communication between millions of connected computers worldwide and it is expected to grow over the forthcoming years. eBay provides a marketplace platform, payment tools and communication tools to helps companies of all sizes drive commerce growth- delivering exceptional, engaging shopping experiences online and offline. eBay has no inventories, eBay doesn't have to manage the shipping process, it gets revenues based on the movement of information and transaction.
