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Revolution Money. Set To Not Take Over

April 6, 2009

Is there room for another payment processor in the market? There’s already the market leader PayPal, followed by Google and Amazon and a slew of open source solutions. AOL co-founder Steve Case thinks there is room for one more with his latest venture Revolution Money. First announced in 2007, Case announced today that he has [...]

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eBay Seals The Door On Its Affiliate Program

March 6, 2009

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eBay caused quite a stir in the affiliate community when it ended it’s relationship with Commission Junction in March of 2008. On April 1st 2008, eBay began managing its own affiliates with the eBay Partner Network. As of the launch, they had over 100,000 members globally and continued to grow….until now. [...]

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Why eBay Won’t Sell Skype

January 26, 2009

eBay CEO John Donahue is rumored to be selling Skype. In a recent interview with Wall St. analysts, he described the world’s most popular VoIP service as a“great stand-alone business”. When asked about how eBay contributes value to Skype, he said “the synergies between Skype and the other parts of our portfolio are minimal. We’re [...]

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eBay Founder Moves Into Micro-Blogging

January 14, 2009

Private Equity blogger, Dan Primack has discovered something interesting in an SEC filing names eBay founder Pierre Omidyar as an executive of a new stealth startup called Ginx. The service, which is currently available for invite-only participants is said to be a micro-blog management service that recomends news, images, and other items to users based [...]

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Why Meg Whitman Would Lose If She Runs For Governor

January 5, 2009

Former eBay executive, Meg Whitman, is planning to run for governor of California in 2010. Whitman would be taking on two other highly touted Republican front-runners, Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner and former Rep. Tom Campbell.
What do we know about Whitman? Aside from making over $1 billion on her 2% stake in eBay, she has not fared well in popularity and [...]

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