Shopping.com
| Shopping.com
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| legal form | Limited (Ltd.) |
| founding | 1998 |
| Seat |
Brisbane United States
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| management | Andre Haddad ( CEO ) |
| Branch | Information and communication (according to WZ 2008 ) |
| Website | de.shopping.com |
Shopping.com is a product and price comparison service with websites in the US, UK, France, Germany and Australia. The portals are operated by Shopping Epinions International Limited, which has been part of eBay since 2005 . The company's headquarters are in Brisbane, California , USA. In Germany, Shopping.com is located in Dreilinden near Berlin. Since February 2009, Guido Syré has been responsible for the German and, since March 2012, the international business of Shopping.com.
Business areas
Shopping.com has two business units:
- a product and price comparison portal for consumers . This sees itself as an online community in which users can search for and publish experience reports and shopping guides.
- a partner program, which it web publishers allowed to integrate customized shopping solutions into their websites and monetize.
technology
Shopping.com is a so-called “white label price comparison portal” , as the database does not come from Shopping.com but is entered by the affiliated retailers.
Since 2010, Shopping.com has also been available as an application for the iPhone and for mobile phones with the Android operating system.
history
The forerunner of Shopping.com (Dealtime.com) was founded in 1998 in Israel by Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi . The original business idea was for a downloadable PC program to monitor price changes. Users should be notified as soon as the price of a product falls below a set limit (hence the name "Dealtime"). Contrary to the original plan, Dealtime.com was finally set up as an online platform. In the course of an alliance with the Bertelsmann group, the website went on an expansion course in 2000: Dealtime.com published online appearances in Great Britain, Germany, Spain and Japan and bought the product recommendation service Digital Jones. Due to poor business results in 2000 and 2001, half of the employees were laid off. At the end of 2001 Dealtime.com gave up its internet presence in Germany and Japan.
In 2002, an additional payment system was introduced: since then, the partners have been able to secure a more prominent position in price comparisons against a bid. Because of these and other changes, the company was able to generate a profit for the first time in 2003. In April of that year, DealTime bought the product review portal Epinions.com. The Shopping.com website was launched in September 2003. After the company was listed on the stock exchange (October 2004), Shopping.com was bought by the US company eBay in June 2005 for around $ 620 million. Since then, websites have been set up in France and Australia, as well as in Germany (November 2005).
On April 29, 2009, Nahum Sharfman, one of the founders of Shopping.com, was killed in an airplane crash in Greece at the age of 61.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Advertise & Sell: Guido Syré heads international business of Shopping.com ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- ↑ Shopping.com: Via Shopping.com . Retrieved December 20, 2010.
- ↑ Search for products and prices on the go . internet world business. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
- ↑ Jens Ihlenfeld: Price comparison company Dealtime gives up in Germany . Golem.de. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
- ↑ Bertelsmann AG : Annual Report 2004 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved December 21, 2010.
- ↑ Die Welt : Ebay buys Shopping.com. The Internet company lets the price agency cost more than $ 600 million. In: Die Welt , No. 127, 2005, p. 13.
- ↑ eBay Germany : Company History Part VI . Retrieved December 21, 2010.
- ↑ Leena Rao: Nahum Sharfman, Founder Of Shopping.com, Perishes In Plane Crash (English) . Retrieved December 22, 2010.
