The US-based Omidyar Network, the brainchild of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and wife Pam, is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing the power of markets to create opportunities for people to improve their lives and it has gone into partnership with BRAC in Sierra Leone and Liberia.

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We discovered elected leaders and policymakers were eager to hear from us and get our feedback, even though eBay was still a small start-up as opposed to the big corporation it is today, and our suggested language was inserted in the bill that passed.

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In carrying out the study, presented at an economics conference held at Stanford University, eBay removed its paid-search keywords from MSN and Yahoo platforms in the US, while retaining them on Google.

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He poked around and discovered that Amazon, eBay, Yahoo and Twitter were all using 512-bit keys, while banks like HSBC and US Bank, and payment provider PayPal were using only slightly stronger 768-bit keys.

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