The eBay founder was a mild-mannered Obama supporter looking for a way to spend his time and fortune. The Snowden leaks gave him a cause — and an enemy. Illustrations by Matthew Woodson Every ...

The billionaire founder of e-commerce site eBay plowed money into a private security startup billed as the “Uber for bodyguards” — while also donating nearly $2 million to groups that advocate ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc founder Pierre Omidyar has become the latest self-made tech baron to plunge into the struggling news industry - hot on the heels of Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos ...

Billlionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is donating $100,000 to NeverTrump PAC, a fledgling super PAC that registered with the Federal Election Commission on March 4. While Omidyar has made donations ...

Leaders from the tech and finance sectors are having an ever greater impact on the nonprofit world. Nowhere is this most apparent than at the Omidyar Network, a philanthropic investment firm started ...

Activist investor Carl Icahn has been getting more aggressive with his proposal that eBay spin off PayPal as its own company, issuing open letters over the past few days attacking board members Scott ...

EBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife will donate another $50 million over five years to fight modern-day slavery worldwide, the president of their Humanity United charity announced today. The ...

Glenn Greenwald's series of national security scoops throughout the summer for the NSA convinced him he wanted to do more reporting, and needed a place beyond the reach of the British authorities to ...

Call it the battle of two billionaires --philosophically. Two Silicon Valley tech moguls are coming down on opposite sides of the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against media site Gawker. Pierre Omidyar, the ...

On Labor Day weekend in 1995, a 28-year-old Pierre Omidyar sat down at his computer to write the code for what would become the business known as eBay. Today, the San Jose, California-based company ...

Pierre Omidyar, eBay founder, talked about his notions of choice, sustainable business models and social good. "Businesses can be a force for good. I recently rediscovered Adam Smith....If the baker ...

The eBay founder was a mild-mannered Obama supporter looking for a way to spend his time and fortune. The Snowden leaks gave him a cause — and an enemy. Illustrations by Matthew Woodson Every ...