The eBay billionaires Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll ranked first and second, respectively, among the world’s 25 “best givers,” according to ratings issued this week by Barron’s magazine in ...

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 ...

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Journalism effort backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and involving Glenn Greenwald -- the man Edward Snowden leaked NSA documents to -- plans to launch its first pub early next week. Edward Moyer ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife are to donate an extra $50 million (32 million pounds) to tackling slavery worldwide, the chief executive of their US-based foundation ...

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and his wife have pledged $50-million over six years to the Hawaii Community Foundation, a gift the charity says may be the largest by a living donor in the state’s ...

Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar - reckoned to be worth $8.5 billion - inspired tens of thousands of journalists to freshen their resumes this week when word of his plan to start his own mass media ...