Another brilliant eBay acquisition bites the dust
Ignoramus18195
In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon
for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, theyre trying
to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sale process.
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Kenneth Zinger
eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon
> for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, theyre trying
> to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sale process.
Looks like the fire sale has already begun.
Ignoramus18195
They should just list it on ebay. I can help them write a description,
now that I have more time freed up due to selling less.
# Title: WEBSITE DOMAIN StumbleUpon.com RARE LQQK
# Subtitle: PR8 Great Biz Opp, strategic!
Business streamlining in progress, our loss is your gain. Great used
website, still has some visitors, looks like new, management is gone,
easy to install your own. Code base is included but no developers to
maintain. Great strategic opportunity for any company with too much
money and not too much brains. RARE OPPORTUNITY WILL NOT LAST.
BrotherBart
># Title: WEBSITE DOMAIN StumbleUpon.com RARE LQQK
># Subtitle: PR8 Great Biz Opp, strategic!
>Business streamlining in progress, our loss is your gain. Great used
>website, still has some visitors, looks like new, management is gone,
>easy to install your own. Code base is included but no developers to
>maintain. Great strategic opportunity for any company with too much
>money and not too much brains. RARE OPPORTUNITY WILL NOT LAST.
Payment via Paypal required.
Ignoramus18195
No local pickup, former CEO and CFO to be shipped in two boxes via
Fedex, carefully packed in foam.
edwar...@hotmail.com
18195.invalid> wrote:
> They should just list it on ebay.
They should just list ebay on ebay.
Ed
Dave U. Random
Ignoramus18195 <ignoramus18...@NOSPAM.18195.invalid> wrote:
>
> http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/18/that-was-fun-but-now-ebays-selling-stumbleupon/
>
> In May 2007 eBay acquired website recommendation engine StumbleUpon
> for $75 million. Now, less than a year and a half later, theyre trying
> to unload it according to a source with knowledge of the sale process.
eBay press release
http://investor.ebay.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=246467
San Jose, Calif., May 30, 2007 – eBay Inc. today announced
it has acquired StumbleUpon ...for an aggregate transaction
value of approximately $75 million. This acquisition will
provide eBay with in-depth exposure to a fast-growing
community-based service with approximately 2.3 million
users. StumbleUpon gives people a new way to discover
relevant and entertaining content based on personal
preferences and community recommendations.
"StumbleUpon is a great fit within our goal of pioneering
new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust,"
said, Michael Buhr, senior director, eBay. "StumbleUpon's
downloadable toolbar provides an engaging and unique
experience to its users, but it is the similarities in our
approaches to the concept of community that make it such a
compelling addition to eBay..."
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HA!
Pogonip
There was another one.......telephony thing.....what's it called? Oh,
yeah....Skype.
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tony cooper
wrote:
>There was another one.......telephony thing.....what's it called? Oh,
>yeah....Skype.
Hush! Remind them of it, and they may dump it. I use Skype
frequently to call relatives in Europe. On Skype today, as a matter
of fact.
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Ignoramus18195
Sounds like a brilliant decision to me, buy a website with 2.3 million
timewasters who installed their timewasting toolbar.
Ignoramus18195
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:32:48 -0400, tony cooper
><tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>Hush! Remind them of it, and they may dump it. I use Skype
>>frequently to call relatives in Europe. On Skype today, as a matter
>>of fact.
>
Supposedly, Skype is encrypted and the keys are not available to
authorities. Whether that is true, is not clear, and the Skype
encryption scheme is secret.
googler
> .....our goal of pioneering
> new communities based on commerce and sustained by trust,"
I think I found their problem
tony cooper
<ev...@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:32:48 -0400, tony cooper
><tony_co...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>Hush! Remind them of it, and they may dump it. I use Skype
>>frequently to call relatives in Europe. On Skype today, as a matter
>>of fact.
>
>Wow, you make it easy for DHS to listen in on your calls. :-D
And why should that bother me? If DHS is interested in anecdotes
about my grandchildren, the fact that I'm in the process of draining
my pool and cleaning it, that I have an infestation of tadpoles in the
pool, that there's a huge pine in my front yard that blew down during
Fay and it's going to take months to chainsaw it up and get rid of it,
and that I just passed a nuclear stress test with flying colors, then
they can listen and take notes.
They might have been interested in my brother's accounting of his
recent holiday in Rome. He lives in Denmark, and the days are getting
shorter there this time of year. He likes the sun in Italy, and the
food is to die for.
My guess is, though, that they took off the earphones when my brother
started talking about his golf game. He could bore the garter belt
off J. Edgar with his hole-by-hole recounting of his latest round.
Pogonip
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:26:30 -0700, Pogonip <nob...@nowhere.org>
> wrote:
>
>> There was another one.......telephony thing.....what's it called? Oh,
>> yeah....Skype.
>
> Hush! Remind them of it, and they may dump it. I use Skype
> frequently to call relatives in Europe. On Skype today, as a matter
> of fact.
>
Shhhhhhh. I use Jahjah.
Lumpy
> Jahjah.
Wood eye.
Lumpy
Were you the voice of Casper?
No. Popeye, Snagglepuss and Wells Fargo Bank.
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J. Stoever
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:49:12 -0700, Evan Platt
> <ev...@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote:
>> Wow, you make it easy for DHS to listen in on your calls. :-D
> They might have been interested in my brother's accounting of his
> recent holiday in Rome. He lives in Denmark, and the days are getting
> shorter there this time of year. He likes the sun in Italy, and the
> food is to die for.
Denmark, isn't that where those terrorists come from ?