BUSINESS: The 4 Internet Big-Players

Short overview on the 4 Internet big-players. Impressive.....

Amazon

- founder: Jeff Bezos
- created in: 1994
- presented in 7 countries
- number of employees: 9'000
- profitable since: 2003
- IPO: spring 1997
- revenues 2004: $5 billion, net income: $430 million
- market capitalization (March 2005): $12.6 billion
- available cash: $1.15 billion
- some record figures: during last Chritsmas, in one day ==> 2.8 million orders, i.e. 32 orders per second!

Yahoo!

- founders: Jerry Yang, David Filo
- created in: 1994
- number of full-time employees: 7'600
- profitable since: 2002
- IPO: April 1996
- revenues 2004: $3.5 billion, net income: $839 million
- market capitalization (March 2005): $49 billion
- available cash: $3.8 billion
- some record figures: 165 million users

eBay

- founder: Pierre Omidyar
- created in: 1995
- presented in 33 countries
- number of employees: 5'700
- profitable since: 1996
- IPO: September 1998
- revenues 2004: $3.3 billion, net income: $778 million
- market capitalization (March 2005): $42.2 billion
- available cash: $1.2 billion
- some record figures: 430 million products available on eBay, 147 million users

Google

- founders: Larry Page, Sergey Brin
- created in: 1998
- number of employees: 3'000
- profitable since: 2001
- IPO: September August 2004
- revenues 2004: $3.2 billion, net income: $400 million
- market capitalization (March 2005): $61 billion
- available cash: $2.5 billion
- some record figures: 200 million search requests per day