Shopping.com is a price comparison service owned by eBay and operating websites in USA, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia.
Shopping.com, previously called DealTime.com, was founded in Israel in 1998 by Dr. Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi, whose original idea was to create a downloadable client that would monitor changes in prices of products the user seeks to buy over time, notifying the user when the product price reached a predete...
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Shopping.com is a price comparison service owned by eBay and operating websites in USA, United Kingdom, France, Germany and Australia.
Shopping.com, previously called DealTime.com, was founded in Israel in 1998 by Dr. Nahum Sharfman and Amir Ashkenazi, whose original idea was to create a downloadable client that would monitor changes in prices of products the user seeks to buy over time, notifying the user when the product price reached a predetermined level (hence the site's original name, DealTime). Originally targeting American consumers, the basic concept was quickly modified from a downloadable client to a purely web-based service, a concept the company has kept ever since.
After recruiting a management team of high ranking executives from other industries, DealTime underwent rapid expansion in 2000 including formation of a major alliance with media giant Bertelsmann, adding British, German, Spanish and Japanese versions of its original American-targeted website, and acquiring...
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