eBay records best year to date

EBay finished 2012 with a flourish as bargain-hunting festive shoppers flocked to its internet shopping mall and digital payment service to help lift the company's fourth-quarter earnings above analyst projections.

The results served as the exclamation point on the best year yet for eBay, an e-commerce pioneer founded in 1995 when the concept of buying merchandise online seemed absurd.
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