Comments on: StumbleUpon Being Acquired by eBay? http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stumbleupon-being-acquired-by-ebay/4734/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sramana Mitra http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stumbleupon-being-acquired-by-ebay/4734/comment-page-1/#comment-447629 Sramana Mitra Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:02:13 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stumbleupon-being-acquired-by-ebay/4734/#comment-447629 For a long time, I have believed that <a href="http://sramanamitra.com/blog/313" rel="nofollow">eBay should have spent money on advertising venue</a> oriented companies, and <a href="http://www.sramanamitra.com/blog/122" rel="nofollow">thought that the Skype acquisition was a stupid move</a>. Only now, it seems to me that eBay's leadership is coming to the same conclusion! <a href="http://www.sramanamitra.com/blog/900" rel="nofollow">Read the rest of my thesis.</a> For a long time, I have believed that eBay should have spent money on advertising venue oriented companies, and thought that the Skype acquisition was a stupid move. Only now, it seems to me that eBay’s leadership is coming to the same conclusion! Read the rest of my thesis.

]]> By: Chris Winfield http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stumbleupon-being-acquired-by-ebay/4734/comment-page-1/#comment-447442 Chris Winfield Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:10:28 +0000 http://www.searchenginejournal.com/stumbleupon-being-acquired-by-ebay/4734/#comment-447442 Yeah - I heard the same things all day Loren but looks like it's still just a "rumor". Via Chris Sherman at SEL: The blogosphere is abuzz with rumors that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon, but they're "just rumors," Garrett Camp, one of StumbleUpon's founders just told me on the phone. "There have been rumors before and that's what they are now," Camp said. Of course, if the company is in play Camp would likely be bound by non-disclosure agreements, so the rumors could possibly turn out to have some merit. http://searchengineland.com/070418-163226.php Yeah – I heard the same things all day Loren but looks like it’s still just a “rumor”.

Via Chris Sherman at SEL:

The blogosphere is abuzz with rumors that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon, but they’re “just rumors,” Garrett Camp, one of StumbleUpon’s founders just told me on the phone. “There have been rumors before and that’s what they are now,” Camp said.

Of course, if the company is in play Camp would likely be bound by non-disclosure agreements, so the rumors could possibly turn out to have some merit.

http://searchengineland.com/070418-163226.php

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