Open Platforms and Embedded Business Applications to Be Showcased at eCommerce Industry Event

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 06, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY)(www.ebay.com) today extended an invitation
to developers, affiliates and entrepreneurs to tap into the largest
ecommerce opportunity on the Web at Chicago's McCormick Place West
convention center from June 16 to 18 for its sixth annual Developers
Conference.

The eBay Developers Conference 2008 will feature industry thought
leaders and innovators such as Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com; Mike
Shaver, chief evangelist for Mozilla; Adam Gross, vice president of
platform and developer marketing at Salesforce.com; John Donahoe, CEO
and president of eBay Inc.; Rajiv Dutta, president of eBay
Marketplaces; James Barrese, vice president of systems and
architecture at eBay; and Max Mancini, eBay's senior director of
platform and disruptive innovation. Speakers will address the
importance of open platforms in improving user experience, boosting
customer loyalty and engagement, and helping entrepreneurial
developers monetize their applications by taking advantage of the
leading e-commerce API platforms on the Web -- eBay, PayPal,
Shopping.com, ProStores, and Skype.

Conference sessions will feature basic to advanced technical and
business sessions, as well as a hands-on Code Lab staffed by eBay
product and technical support engineers to help developers build
ecommerce tools, widgets, solutions, or services and extend their
online businesses. The tracks include: Business and Entrepreneurship;
Affiliate and Buyer tools; Seller, Merchant, and Payment Tools; and
Web 2.0 and Web Development. Individual sessions cover topics such as
social networks and ecommerce, fighting fraud with PayPal, the eBay
Platform Product Roadmap, and improving application-level security.

Registration for the eBay Developers Conference 2008 includes
admission to eBay Live! 2008 (June 19-21), also at Chicago's McCormick
Place West. The standard conference fee is $595 for the general
attendee package. Developer attendees who register before May 31 will
receive a 20 percent discount, paying only $475.

Register now at www.ebay.com/devcon.

About eBay

Founded in 1995, eBay Inc. connects hundreds of millions of people
around the world every day, empowering them to explore new
opportunities and innovate together. eBay Inc. does this by providing
the Internet platforms of choice for global commerce, payments and
communications. Since its inception, eBay Inc. has expanded to include
some of the strongest brands in the world, including eBay, PayPal,
Skype, StubHub, Shopping.com, and others. eBay Inc. is headquartered
in San Jose, California.

SOURCE: eBay Inc.

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