Singapore, 09 December 2008 – eBay and Wego.com, Asia-Pacific’s fastest growing travel search engine, have forged an alliance to launch a new travel category on eBay sites in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Now, users who log on to eBay.com.sg, eBay.com.my and eBay.ph will have the opportunity to search over one hundred travel websites to compare real-time, available offers from airlines, online travel agencies, hotel chains, hotel aggregators and other travel suppliers quickly at one easy-to-use location.

Martin Symes, CEO of Wego.com said, “Joining forces with eBay will provide its users an even better travel shopping experience. With Wego’s comprehensive price comparisons for travel products, eBay users can now search across multiple travel sites to help them find the best deals in real time, within seconds.”

Allis Ghim, Director at eBay, said, “By partnering with Wego, we are able to add the travel category to our current product offering which will further enhance the online shopping experience for users in Southeast Asia. This reinforces our position as the world’s largest online marketplace where practically anything can be bought or sold”.

This holiday season, users who are looking to find great vacation deals, can access the travel category via the eBay Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines homepage or log on to http://travel.ebay.com.sg, http://travel.ebay.com.my and http://travel.ebay.ph.

About Wego.com
Wego.com (formerly Bezurk.com) allows travelers to search for flights, hotels, packages, travel deals and travel research across 100+ travel websites in the time that it normally takes to search just one. Wego searches travel websites in real-time so that the latest pricing and availability are shown. Travelers are then linked through to partner websites to book.  Wego.com was founded in 2005 by former executives from Intercontinental Hotels Group (NYSE: IHG), Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Priceline (NASDAQ: PCLN) and ZUJI. News Digital Media, the Australian digital arm of News Limited and part of News Corp (NYSE: NWS), is an investor. In 2007, Business 2.0 magazine named Bezurk as one of “31 of the world’s hottest international web startups”. For more information, please visit http://www.wego.com/about.

About eBay Inc.
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.

Contact:

Debbie R. Coloma
PR & Media Consultant for Wego.com
Email: debbie.coloma@mac.com
For Wego.com photos, logos and screen grabs: www.wego.com/mediakit

Jean Ow-Yeong
eBay Southeast Asia 
Tel: (65) 6510 4502   
Email: jowyeong@ebay.com

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