What's more, cashaccounts for about 12% of the totalmarket cap for allthree, rivaling theproportion of USinternetcompanies like Yahoo (YHOO) andeBay (EBAY).
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.
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.
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.