E-Trade

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E-Trade Financial Corporation

Type	PublicNASDAQ: ETFC)(NYSE: DNB) (
Industry	Financial Services
Founded	Palo Alto, California (1982)
Headquarters	New York City, New York U.S.
Key people	Steven Freiberg, CEO Bruce P. Nolop, CFO[1]
Products	Trading & investing, banking & credit cards, retirement & planning
Revenue	▲ US$2.22 Billion (FY 2009)[2]
Operating income	▼ US$-525 Million (FY 2009)[2]
Net income	▼ US$-1.30 Billion (FY 2009)[2]
Total assets	▼ US$47.4 Billion (FY 2009)[3]
Total equity	▲ US$3.75 Billion (FY 2009)[3]
Employees	3,249 (2009)
Website	ETrade.com

E-Trade Financial Corporation (often styled E*TRADE) (NASDAQ: ETFC) is a financial servicesonline discount stock brokerage service for self-directed investors. Investors can buy and sell securities such as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds via electronic trading platforms or by phone via E-Trade Mobile Pro. The company also offers banking and lending products such as checking and savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and credit cards. E-Trade's brokerage business is regulated and licensed by FINRA. E-Trade also has a wholly-owned subsidiary E-Trade Bank. company based in New York City, United States. It is a holding company, the major business of which is an

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In 1982, William A. Porter and Bernard A. Newcomb founded TradePlus in Palo Alto, California. In 1991, Porter founded a new company, E-Trade Securities, Inc., with several hundred thousand dollars of startup capital from TradePlus. E-Trade offered its trading services via America Online and Compuserve. In 1994, its revenues neared $11 million (up from $850,000 in 1992). It later reorganized and emerged under the name E-Trade Group, with E-Trade Securities as its principal subsidiary.^[4]

In August 1996, it went public with Robertson, Stephens & Company as the lead underwriter. In 2003, the company changed its name from E-Trade Group Inc. to E-Trade Financial Corporation.

In 2003, the Toronto-Dominion Bank held talks to merge its TD Waterhouse discount brokerage with E-Trade, but the two sides could not come to an agreement over control of the merged entity.^[5][6] In 2005, E-Trade made an unsolicited offer for Ameritrade, currently the second largest US discount broker. Ameritrade instead purchased TD Waterhouse, with TD Bank holding a 39% stake in the new entity.^[7]

In August 2005, E-Trade Financial acquired Harrisdirect, formerly a discount brokerage service of Bank of Montreal. Two months later, E-Trade acquired Brown & Company (aka BrownCo), formerly a discount brokerage service of J.P. Morgan for 1.6 billion in cash.

Email

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The at sign, a part of every e-mail address^[1]

Electronic mail, commonly called email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks. Originally, email was transmitted directly from one user to another computer. This required both computers to be online at the same time, a la instant messenger. Today's email systems are based on a store-and-forward model. Email servers accept, forward, deliver and store messages. Users no longer need be online simultaneously and need only connect briefly, typically to an email server, for as long as it takes to send or receive messages.

An email message consists of two components, the message header, and the message body, which is the email's content. The message header contains control information, including, minimally, an originator's email address and one or more recipient addresses. Usually additional information is added, such as a subject header field.

Originally a text-only communications medium, email was extended to carry multi-media content attachments, a process standardized in RFC 2045 through 2049. Collectively, these RFCs have come to be called Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME).

The history of modern, global Internet email services reaches back to the early ARPANET. Standards for encoding email messages were proposed as early as 1973 (RFC 561). Conversion from ARPANET to the Internet in the early 1980s produced the core of the current services. An email sent in the early 1970s looks quite similar to one sent on the Internet today.

Network-based email was initially exchanged on the ARPANET in extensions to the File Transfer ProtocolSimple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), first published as Internet standardRFC 821) in 1982. In the process of transporting email messages between systems, SMTP communicates delivery parameters using a message envelope separate from the message (header and body) itself. (FTP), but is now carried by the 10 (

eHarmony

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eHarmony.com

Type	Private
Founded	2000, Pasadena, California
Headquarters	Pasadena, California
Website	eharmony.com

eHarmony headquarters in the OneWest Bank building in downtown Pasadena

eHarmony is an online dating website which matches men and women with other singles. In addition to singles matching, eHarmony operates eHarmony Labs, a relationship research facility, and publishes eHarmony Advice, a relationship advice site. eHarmony, which was launched on August 22, 2000, is based in Pasadena, California and has operations in the U.S., Australia, Canada and the U.K. The company is privately-held, with investors that include Technology Crossover Ventures, Sequoia Capital and Fayez Sarofim & Co.

Contents [show] 1 History 2 Methodology 3 Current board of directors 4 Current executives 5 Criticism 5.1 Misleading advertising 5.2 Same-sex couples 5.3 Matching paying members with non-paying members 6 See also 7 Notes 8 External links

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eHarmony was founded by Neil Clark Warren, a psychologist and author of relationship advice books,^[1] and Greg Forgatch. Warren and Forgatch worked with TechEmpower and Dr. Tony Karrer to build and launch the site on Aug. 22, 2000.^[2] In the late 1990s, after more than 35 years of work as a clinical psychologist and marriage counselor, Warren decided to test his theory that certain characteristics can predict compatibility, and lead to more satisfying relationships. After three years of research, working in collaboration with Dr. Galen Buckwalter, Warren developed a model of compatibility that is now the basis of the company’s matching system.^[3]

The service was financed with a $3.0 million investment from Fayez Sarofim & Co. and individual investors.^[4]2004 eHarmony received the fourth largest venture capital infusion of that year from Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures.^[5] With its subscription model, the service has been profitable since then and reached a milestone in 2009 as it exceeded $1.0 billion in cumulative revenue.^[6] In

eHarmony launched its matching service for singles in 2000.^[7] Since then, the company has had about 33 million members,^[8] and as of 2008, about 15,000 people take the eHarmony questionnaire each day.^[9] After finding a match on eHarmony, Harris Interactive states that an average of 271 eHarmony members in the U.S. marry every day.[1

eMachines

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eMachines

Type	Personal computers
Owner	Acer
Markets	World
Previous Owners	2004 - Gateway, Inc.
Website	http://www.emachines.com/

eMachines is a brand of entry level PCs, based in Irvine, California. eMachines employed about 135 employees and sold between 1 to 2 million computers each year before its purchase on January 30, 2004, by rival Gateway Computers. Gateway was purchased by Acer in October 2007, and eMachines is still used as a name brand for low-cost PCs.

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eMachines was founded in 1998, backed by Korean monitor maker Korea Data Systems (KDS), Korean computer manufacturer TriGem, and various other investors. The company announced PC models at prices of $299, $399, $499, and $599, all without a monitor. At the time, few PCs sold for less than $699, and $999 was a more common price point for entry-level PCs. The first units shipped in November of the same year.

eMachines PCs quickly became common in retail stores and touched off a ruinous price war involving Compaq, Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, and Packard Bell. eMachines PCs were frequently offered with large rebates, provided the consumer signed a long-term contract with an internet service provider, driving down the price further.

In March 2000, hoping to further cash in on the dot-com boom, eMachines filed an Initial Public Offering with its share price set at $9. But with thin profit margins and declining sales, the company quickly started losing money and received a threat of being delisted by NASDAQ in late December 2000. Its stock price, which had peaked at $10, had fallen as low as 14 cents. The company went private in December 2001.

In December 2003, eMachines released the T6000 desktop, the world's first mass-marketed AMD Athlon 64-based system, retailing at US$1,150. The systems were primarily sold through Best Buy stores, but the PCs were also available online. eMachines were also the first company to sell notebooks based on the AMD Mobile Athlon 64, with the launch of its M6000 series in January 2004.

In July 2004, eMachines began to shake the perception that their computers were of poor quality when PC Magazine reported:

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Among systems less than a year old, eMachines users report the fewest serious problems. eMachines' low-cost PCs are less likely to need repairs than systems from any other vendor. Whereas only 9 percent of eMachines desktops less than a year old needed repairs, according to readers, the rates of comparably new systems from Dell and Gateway needing repairs were 11 and 15 percent, respectively. Only 1 percent of all eMachines systems needed to be replaced.[1]

”

eMachines was acquired by Gateway, Inc. in March 2004 for $262 million in cash and shares. Under the deal, Wayne Inouye, CEO of eMachines, became CEO of Gateway, replacing founder Ted Waitt. It remains a stand-alone brand that is sold through retailers, catalog and online merchandisers. Gateway itself was purchased by Acer in October 2007.

Emachines currently makes Netbooks, Desktop PC's And Notebook PC's

eBay

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eBay Inc

Type	Public (NASDAQ: EBAY) S&P 500 Component
Founded	September 3, 1995
Founder	Pierre Omidyar
Headquarters	San Jose, California, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Pierre Omidyar (Chairman) John Donahoe (CEO)
Industry	Auctions
Products	Online auction hosting, Electronic commerce, Shopping mall PayPal , Skype, Gumtree, Kijiji (Now eBayClassifieds),
Revenue	▲ US$8.727 billion (2009)[1]
Operating income	▼ US$1.456 billion (2009)[1]
Net income	▲ US$2.389 billion (2009)[1]
Employees	15,500 (Q1 2008)
Slogan	Connecting buyers and sellers globally. Come to think of it, eBay. What ever it is, you can get it on eBay. Shop victoriously! From collectibles to cars, buy and sell all kinds of items on eBay Buy it, sell it, love it
Website	www.ebay.com
Alexa rank	21[2]
Type of site	Online auction
Registration	Required to buy and sell
Available in	Multilingual
Screenshot[show] The eBay homepage.

eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping websitedot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries.^[3] eBay expanded from its original "set-time" auction format to include "Buy It Now" standard shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKUHalf.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via PayPal^[4]) and other services. in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Founded in 1995, eBay is one of the notable success stories of the (via

Contents [show] 1 Origins and history 2 Items 2.1 PayPal-only categories 2.2 eBay Express 2.3 Selling Manager Applications 2.4 eBay specialty sites 3 Auction types 4 Bidding 4.1 Auction-style listings 4.1.1 Example of bidding on an auction-style listing 4.2 Seller ratings 5 Profit and transactions 6 Acquisitions 7 Economics 8 Controversy and criticism 9 Prohibited or restricted items 10 Unusual sale items 11 Charity auctions 12 Environmental record 13 Skype 14 Craigslist 15 See also 16 References 17 Further reading 18 External links

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eBay headquarters in San Jose

The online auction website was founded as AuctionWeb in San Jose, California, on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.^[5] One of the first items sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."^[6] 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,^[5] and confirmed by eBay.

Chris Agarpao was hired as eBay's first employee and Jeffrey Skoll was hired as the first president of the company in early 1996. In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products. Growth was phenomenal; in January 1997 the site hosted 2,000,000 auctions, compared with 250,000 during the whole of 1996.^[7] The company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in September 1997. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm. Omidyar had tried to register the domain name echobay.com, but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so he shortened it to his second choice, eBay.com.^[8]private equity firm based in Nevis.) (Echobay.com is now owned by Echobay Partners, Ltd., a

In 1997, the company received $6.7 million in funding from the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.^[9]

Meg Whitman was hired as eBay President and CEO in March 1998. At the time, the company had 30 employees^[10] half a million users and revenues of $4.7 million in the United States.^[11] eBay went public on September 21, 1998,^[12] and both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires. eBay's target share price of $18 was all but ignored as the price went to $53.50 on the first day of trading.^[13]

As the company expanded product categories beyond collectibles into almost any saleable item, business grew quickly.^[6] In February 2002, the company purchased IBazar, a similar European auction web site founded in 1995 and then bought PayPal on October 14, 2002.

In early 2008, the company had expanded worldwide, counted hundreds of millions of registered users, 15,000+ employees and revenues of almost $7.7 billion.^[11] After nearly ten years at eBay, Whitman made the decision to enter politics. On January 23, 2008 the company announced that Whitman would step down on March 31, 2008 and John Donahoe was selected to become President and CEO.^[14] Whitman remained on the Board of Directors and continued to advise Donahoe through 2008. In late 2009, eBay completed the sale of Skype for $2.75 Billion, but will still own 30% equity in the company.^[15]

In July 2010, eBay was sued for $3.8 billion by XPRT Ventures which accused eBay of stealing information shared in confidence by the inventors on XPRT's own patents, and incorporated it into features in its own payment systems, such as PayPal Pay Later and PayPal Buyer Credit.^[16]

E

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Not to be confused with ㅌ or ∈.

For technical reasons, E# redirects here. For the musical note, see E♯ (musical note).

For the mathematical constant, see e (mathematical constant).

For other uses of "E", see E (disambiguation).

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Basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd
Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh
Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn
Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt
Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

E ( /ˈiː/; named e, plural ees)^[1] is the fifth letter and a vowel in the basic modern Latin alphabet. It is the most commonly used letter in the Czech,^[2] Danish,^[2] Dutch,^[2] English,^[3] French,^[4] German,^[5] Hungarian,^[2] Latin,^[2] Norwegian,^[2] Spanish,^[6] and Swedish languages.^[2]

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Egyptian hieroglyph q’	Proto-Semitic H	Phoenician he	Etruscan E	Greek Epsilon	Roman/Cyrillic E

‹E› differs little from its derived source, the Greek letter epsilon ‹Ε›. In etymology, the Semitic hê probably first represented a praying or calling human figure (hillul 'jubilation'), and was probably based on a similar Egyptian hieroglyph that indicated a different pronunciation. In Semitic, the letter represented /h/ (and /e/ in foreign words), in Greek hê became epsilon with the value /e/. Etruscans and Romans followed this usage. Although Middle English spelling used ‹e› to represent long and short /e/, the Great Vowel Shift, changed long /eː/ (as in me or bee) to /iː/ while short /e/ (as in met or bed) remains a mid vowel.