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38-506: In 1996, Microsoft purchased the core software that formed the basis for the Commerce Server product line from e-Shop. e-Shop was co-founded by Pierre Omidyar , one of the founders of eBay . In 1997, the software was rebranded to Microsoft Merchant Server , then Microsoft Site Server , eventually being renamed to Microsoft Commerce Server in 2000. Initially released in 2000, Commerce Server replaced Microsoft Site Server , expanding on

76-412: A billionaire. The top 10 universities produced just 99 of the top 400 billionaires combined, significantly less than the total number of billionaires who were not college educated. Military service produced 21 billionaires, more than any single university. Very few college-educated billionaires pursued business interests in their field of study, with the exception of computer science majors. All twelve of

114-561: A net worth of at least $ 100 billion. According to the UBS/PwC Billionaires Report 2019 report released in November 2019, there are currently 2,101 U.S. dollar billionaires worldwide, from 66 countries, with a combined net worth of $ 8.5 trillion. Also according to the report, billionaires have a substantial positive impact on the sustainability and success of companies controlled by them. Billionaire-controlled companies listed on

152-509: A recreational area near Lake Mead, Nevada, because it "sounded cool". When he learned that echobay.com was taken, he dropped the "cho", and ebay.com was born. The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media. This was revealed in Adam Cohen 's 2002 book The Perfect Store , and confirmed by eBay. Jeffrey Skoll joined

190-404: A result of death or divorce, including Julia Koch , and Jeff Bezos 's former wife MacKenzie Scott . From 2014 to 2019, the number of female billionaires grew by 46%. That is more than the number of male billionaires in the same period (39%). As of 2019 there were 233 female billionaires in the world, compared to 160 in 2013. Billionaires come from a very wide number of backgrounds. A review of

228-497: A signatory of The Giving Pledge , and has declared his intention to give away most of his wealth during his lifetime. In 2019, he donated approximately $ 500 million to charitable causes. He has bankrolled groups like the anti-monopoly think tank Open Markets Institute and the digital rights group Public Knowledge Project , in the fight against the big tech companies, which he criticizes as overly powerful and destructive to democracy. His advocacy and philanthropic investment firm

266-401: A wide variety of trade goods. Omidyar incorporated the enterprise; his small fee on each sale financed the site's expansion. The revenue soon outstripped his salary at General Magic and nine months later, Omidyar decided to dedicate his full attention to his new enterprise. By 1996, when Omidyar signed a licensing deal to offer airline tickets online, the site had hosted 250,000 auctions. In

304-539: Is a person with a net worth of at least one billion units of a given currency , usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar , euro , or pound sterling . It is a sub-category of the concept of the ultra high-net-worth individual . The American business magazine Forbes produces a global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year and updates an internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became

342-407: Is an accepted version of this page Pierre Morad Omidyar (born Parviz Morad Omidyar , June 21, 1967) is a French-born Iranian-American billionaire . A technology entrepreneur, software engineer, and philanthropist, he is the founder of eBay , where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. Omidyar and his wife Pamela founded Omidyar Network in 2004. As of 2023 , Forbes ranked Omidyar as

380-707: Is an investor in Montage Resort and Spa in Laguna Beach, California . Omidyar is also a member of the Berggruen Institute 's 21st Century Council. In 2020, Omidyar stepped down from the board of eBay as part of a broader overhaul of the company. He has, however, stayed active in the company, retaining the title of director emeritus. In 2010, Omidyar launched an online investigative reporting news service, Honolulu Civil Beat , covering civic affairs in Hawaii . The site

418-582: The University of California, Berkeley , graduating with a B.S. in computer science in 1988. Shortly after studying at Berkeley, Omidyar started working for Claris , an Apple Computer subsidiary. He worked with the team that upgraded MacDraw to MacDraw II. In 1991, he co-founded Ink Development , a pen-based computing startup that later was rebranded as an e-commerce company and renamed eShop Inc. Microsoft acquired eShop on June 11, 1996, for less than $ 50 million, and Omidyar earned $ 1 million from

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456-631: The global population of 400 million. In the same period, the wealth of the richest 62 people between the World's Billionaires increased by $ 500bn (£350bn) to $ 1.76tn. More recently, in 2017 an Oxfam report noted that just eight billionaires have as much net worth as "half the human race". However, the Oxfam report has been criticized for considering debt as negative wealth, which leads to wealthy people with large amounts of debt to be considered poor or not wealthy. These aggregated statistics for billionaires include

494-479: The 245th-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $ 8.7 billion. Omidyar is a long-term Democratic Party donor. Since 2010, he has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat . In 2013, he announced that he would create and finance First Look Media , a journalism venture to include Glenn Greenwald , Laura Poitras , and Jeremy Scahill . Parviz Morad Omidyar

532-558: The Commerce Server Staging (CSS) system. The Staging functionality automates the deployment of both dynamic and active content across a network infrastructure and can accommodate a wide variety of network configurations. (Some have remarked that the speed of CSS deployments is perhaps the most note-worthy aspect of this component.) Commerce Server also comes with BizTalk adaptors, which allow for integration with Microsoft BizTalk for enterprise data manipulation. The product requires

570-450: The Commerce Server product. The latest release is Sitecore Commerce Server 11, released in 2014. Used extensively by a number of middle to large UK retailers, Commerce Server gained considerable traction in the early 2000s. Primarily implemented by Microsoft Partners, the following were sites that at one point were running on a Commerce Server foundation: 1990s: 2000 - 2010 2010 - onwards The following companies were responsible for

608-496: The Nduna Foundation (founded by Amy Robbins ),and Enterprise Zimbabwe . Established in 2018 to provide an information platform whose declared mission is to ensure that everyone, even the least able has the information to influence the decisions that affect their lives and the power to assert their rights. Its vice-president Felipe Estefan, is associated with Omidyar Network's Governance & Citizen Engagement initiative and

646-596: The Omidyar Network, distributed widely read papers laying out the antitrust cases against Facebook and Google. In February 2021, his network hosted a series on whistleblowing , and is now providing financial support to Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen . Omidyar has given funding to the Center for Humane Technology , whose head of public affairs is Haugen's top PR representative in the US. Billionaire A billionaire

684-822: The United States when Omidyar was a child; his father worked as a urologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland . He now practices in Aliso Viejo, California . Omidyar attended Punahou School in Honolulu for two years. (He now serves on its board of trustees). His interest in computers began while he was a ninth-grade student at The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia . He graduated in 1984 from St. Andrew's Episcopal School , Potomac, Maryland . He started his undergraduate studies at Tufts University , and finished it at

722-559: The age of 40, while the list of American-only billionaires, as of 2010, had an average age of 66. Different authorities use different methodologies to determine net worth and to rank them, and not all information about personal finances is publicly available. In 2019, Forbes counted a record 607 billionaires in the U.S.. Over the course of the 2020s, depending on the source and the year, the world's richest person has been reckoned to be Jeff Bezos , Bernard Arnault and family, or Elon Musk . In 2019, 19 people became billionaires. Four were

760-502: The company in 1996. In March 1998, Meg Whitman was elected president and CEO. She ran the company until January 2008, when she announced her retirement. In September 1998, eBay launched a successful public offering , making both Omidyar and Skoll billionaires. In 2002, eBay bought PayPal , an online payment company. Later, in 2015, they spun PayPal off. Omidyar still owns 6% of its worth. As of July 2008 , Omidyar's 178 million eBay shares were worth around $ 4.45 billion. Omidyar

798-421: The computer science major billionaires worked in computer science, while only half of engineers worked in engineering, and less than a quarter of finance and economics majors ever worked in finance or economics. The most common field for billionaires to enter was sales and military service. According to a 2016 Oxfam report, the wealth of the poorest 95% dropped by 38% between 2010 and 2015, due to an increase in

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836-403: The deal. In 1995, at 28, Omidyar began to write the original computer code for an online venue to enable the listing of a direct person-to-person auction for collectible items. He created a simple prototype on his web page. On Labor Day , Monday, September 4, 1995, he launched an online service called Auction Web, which would eventually be developed as the auction site eBay . The service

874-434: The education and work histories of the top 400 billionaires shows little correlation between education and success. Nearly 30% of billionaires do not have a college degree, greatly exceeding any other educational background. The most common field of university education was finance and economics, which only contributed to a combined 15.5% of billionaire educations. There is little correlation between any university and becoming

912-671: The equity market returned 17.8 percent, compared with the 9.1 percent of the MSCI AC World Index . According to the authors of the report, this Billionaire Effect is connected with smart risk-taking and willingness to plan and invest for the long term. The majority of billionaires are male, as fewer than 11% (197 of 1,826) on the 2015 list were female billionaires . The United States has the largest number of billionaires of any country, with 536 as of 2015 , while China , India and Russia are home to 213, 90 and 88 billionaires, respectively. As of 2015 , only 46 billionaires were under

950-399: The executive producer team for the following films. Omidyar Group represents a diverse array of companies, organizations, and initiatives associated with Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam and their philanthropic and business endeavors. Two of the many organizations it represents are Omidyar Network and Luminate Group. Omidyar Network is a philanthropic investment firm dedicated to harnessing

988-400: The first month of 1997, it hosted two million. By the middle of that year, eBay hosted nearly 800,000 auctions daily. In 1997, Omidyar changed the company's name from AuctionWeb to eBay and began advertising the service aggressively. The name "eBay" was his second choice. His first choice was registered to a Canadian mining company, Echo Bay Mines. He originally wanted Echo Bay , the name of

1026-622: The functionality and establishing a focus on e-commerce functionality (rather than concerning itself with document management or content metadata). It helped to create an e-commerce solution or web site with high-performance, familiar tools designed to simplify setup, management, and administration tasks. The last version of the Microsoft-developed product is Microsoft Commerce Server 2009 R2. Microsoft continued to honor extended support of Commerce Server 2009 through 2019. Sitecore now takes responsibility for developing, selling, and supporting

1064-430: The new Commerce Foundation - an abstraction layer that unifies calling patterns of the core systems (see below) and allows for different presentation and business logic to be easily added and represented as 'selling channels'; and SharePoint Commerce Services which includes integration with Microsoft SharePoint - a new default site with 30 new web parts and controls pre-assembled. The default site can be skinned through

1102-418: The new page templating technology, allowing for individual pages to be easily changed by selecting a different template. The product still retains its core systems of Catalog, Inventory, Orders, Profiles, and Marketing. The server comes bundled with Data Warehouse Analytics, which offer sophisticated reporting functionality, dependent on the availability of Microsoft SQL Server Analytics module, in addition to

1140-673: The power of markets to create opportunities for people to improve their lives. It was established in 2004 by Omidyar and his wife, Pam. The organization invests in and helps scale innovative organizations to catalyze economic, social, and political change. Omidyar Network has committed more than $ 992 million to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that foster economic advancement and encourage individual participation across multiple investment areas, including Property Rights, Governance & Citizen Engagement, Education, Financial Inclusion and Consumer & Internet Mobile. In 2010, he and his wife established, along with Richard Branson and

1178-509: The presence of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later. Commerce Server also can leverage a number of other Microsoft server products, including BizTalk Server 2006, R2, or 2009 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). .NET Framework 3.5 and Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) are also required, as the other components used by this product are dependent on these technologies. Recommended deployments are confined to Windows Server 2003 or higher. The Microsoft Commerce Server business

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1216-512: The vast majority of Microsoft Commerce led ecommerce implementation. Commerce Server 2009, which became available on Microsoft's price list on 1 April 2009, introduced multichannel awareness into the product, a new default site (running in Microsoft's SharePoint product), including 30 new web parts and controls, and WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editing experiences for business people and site designers. These features were introduced through

1254-454: The world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916. As of April 2024, there are 2,781 billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over US$ 14.2 trillion, up from US$ 12.2   trillion in 2023. According to a 2024 Oxfam report, the world's top 1% of earners own more combined wealth "than 95% of humanity". As of October 2024, seventeen people have reached the status of USD centibillionaires, meaning that each has had

1292-553: Was born on June 21, 1967, in Paris , the son of Iranian parents who had immigrated to France for higher education. He was named Parviz . His mother, Elahé Mir-Djalali Omidyar, who earned her doctorate in linguistics at the Sorbonne , is an academic. His father, Cyrus Omidyar (born c.  1934 ), completed medical education and training in France and is a surgeon. The family immigrated to

1330-589: Was formerly a CNN journalist and an Open Government Strategist at the World Bank. Omidyar and his wife Pamela own properties in Henderson, Nevada , and Honolulu, Hawaii . According to Forbes , his net worth was US$ 13.1 billion as of January 2019. He is a major donor to Democratic Party candidates and organizations. Omidyar is a follower of the Dalai Lama . In 2010, he joined Bill Gates and Warren Buffett as

1368-630: Was named Best News Website in Hawaii for 2010, 2011, and 2012. On September 4, 2013, Honolulu Civil Beat started a partnership with HuffPost , launching HuffPost Hawaii . In 2013, prompted by the Edward Snowden leaks, Omidyar announced the creation of the journalism venture First Look Media , which on February 10, 2014, launched The Intercept , drawing from journalists such as Glenn Greenwald , Laura Poitras , Jeremy Scahill , Dan Froomkin , John Temple, and Jay Rosen . Omidyar has been part of

1406-503: Was originally one of several items on Omidyar's website eBay.com. His website also had a section devoted to the Ebola virus , among other topics. The first item sold on the eBay site was a broken laser pointer . Omidyar was astonished that anyone would pay for a broken device, but the buyer assured him that he was deliberately collecting broken laser pointers. Similar surprises followed. The business exploded as correspondents began registering

1444-603: Was outsourced to Cactus Commerce ( Gatineau , Quebec, Canada) in 2007. After Ascentium purchased Cactus Commerce along with the Microsoft Commerce Server business in 2011, they rebranded the software to Ascentium Commerce Server. Ascentium later rebranded itself as SMITH and split off the Commerce Server product division into a subsidiary known as CommerceServer.net. In November 2013, Sitecore acquired CommerceServer.net. In August 2014, Sitecore released Sitecore Commerce Server 11. Pierre Omidyar This

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