EBay are spurring increased purchases of smartphones and tablet computers. In the third quarter, sales in the US group to 14 percent rose to 3.9 billion dollars (2.9 billion euros). The profit improved thanks to asset sales by 15 percent to below-the-line $689 million.
Succeeded in the growth compared to the same period last year despite a "sluggish macroeconomic environment", CEO John Donahoe said on Wednesday (local time) at the company's headquarters in San Jose, California. Especially the payments daughter PayPal could grow. The ancestral trading platform and the Corporate Services Branch were behind it.
"Mobile customers in fact have an enormous potential", said Arnulf Keese, Managing Director of PayPal in Germany. "You carry twice as many transactions as the average PayPal user. His manager-mate Michael Kliger pointed out the increased purchases across national borders as another reason for the growth.
PayPal has already 137 million accounts
Yet fell the stock in the post-trading New York trading around four percent. Investors were troubled by their opinion too cautious views of the final quarter. Here is the important Christmas business. Already in the first quarter, investors had disappointed eBay with his forecast.
The eBay marketplace has become world's 124 million active users and 15 million more than a year ago. EBay thrives fees for current transactions. In contrast, the rival Amazon occurs even as the seller.
PayPal comes to 137 million accounts, increase of 20 million the previous year. Here too, there are fees for transactions that eBay make money. EBay recently announced, to strengthen, including the pillar with the acquisition of the online payment Unwinder Braintree the money transactions for the roost intermediaries Airbnb or the restaurant reservation service OpenTable does. The takeover the group can cost $800 million.
Third pillar of the group is the General eBay enterprise, which uses, for example, online stores for clients.
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