eBay purchases StumbleUpon, why?
April 18th, 2007 by Casey
Techcrunch just reported that ebay has purchased StumbleUpon for 40-45 million. Why? It seems the consensus is a large ad buy. If thats this case this is horrible, both from an advertiser on Stumble and a user.eBay hasn’t really shown any innovation nor do they improve any of the properties they acquire. Skype, Paypal and the others are relatively unchanged since they were acquired.
This sucks.
On a positive note I guess I can discard my posts about who would be best to acquire this little gem.
oh great! theres gonna be a “ebay” category thats gonna branch out into 512 different, so i can finally stumble nothing but used xboxes and socks.
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