Comments on: Why eBay wants Stumbleupon

By: Stumbleupon and Fark: Not Much Attention, but Big Traffic «

Stumbleupon and Fark: Not Much Attention, but Big Traffic « — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:57:58 +0000

[...] in Calgary, Alberta — gets a little more press because it was backed by VCs and ultimately bought by eBay in 2007 for $75 million. But while there was some attention paid to the company after it was bought back by the founders [...]

By: Quickthink » Blog Archive » Whatever Happened to Ebay?

Quickthink » Blog Archive » Whatever Happened to Ebay? — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 08:53:44 +0000

[...] in common with its other businesses, and didn’t even buy control of its P2P technology. After buying StumbleUpon in 2007, eBay smothered the innovative startup under its wings. As Om noted recently, StumbleUpon [...]

By: eBay’s Crossroads: Turn Around or Break Up

eBay’s Crossroads: Turn Around or Break Up — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:02:25 +0000

By: player4000

player4000 — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:24:34 +0000

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By: Great eBay Fire Sale Means StumbleUpon Free Again

Great eBay Fire Sale Means StumbleUpon Free Again — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:01:09 +0000

[...] a content discovery service that was acquired by eBay for a rumored $75 million (or more) is free again. The company was spun out of eBay today as an [...]

By: Why Digg Should Buy StumbleUpon - GigaOM

Why Digg Should Buy StumbleUpon - GigaOM — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:41:38 +0000

[...] few weeks, speculation has surfaced that StumbleUpon, a social media utility that was acquired by eBay in April 2007 for around $75 million, was back on the market. But as TechCrunch, which first reported the story [...]

By: SEO EMPIRE » Blog Archive » eBay Acquires StumbleUpon

SEO EMPIRE » Blog Archive » eBay Acquires StumbleUpon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:47:07 +0000

[...] GigaOm and others are reporting that eBay may have signed a deal worth between $40 – $45 million to [...]

By: Rumors And News From Social Media And Search | TheVanBlog

Rumors And News From Social Media And Search | TheVanBlog — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:16:41 +0000

[...] broke the story, which was followed up by a quite a few other blogs. Om Malik of GigaOM offered an interesting scenario for the purchase involving eBay incorporating StumbleUpon into Skype. By combining the two they could essentially [...]

By: trademark registration

trademark registration — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:31:54 +0000

That's a really good point. If StumbleUpon's toolbar was merged with Skype it would give Google a run for its money.

By: Brainplugg Channels » eBay to announce StumbleUpon buy today

Brainplugg Channels » eBay to announce StumbleUpon buy today — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:24:20 +0000

[...] of Stumble Upon after the close to markets today, according to informed sources. The news of a pending deal was first reported back in April 2007. The acquisition price is said to be $75 million. StumbleUpon [...]

By: The Blogosphere In Uproar Over Slew of Major Announcements

The Blogosphere In Uproar Over Slew of Major Announcements — Thu, 31 May 2007 16:22:01 +0000

[...] By marrying the [StumbleUpon] toolbar to Skype client, eBay can do an end run around Google’s dominance of the search business. A simple search box inside Skype client is all it would take. It is not that far fetched: Skype has been slowly integrating various different services (including PayPal) into its client, and slowly becoming eBay’s desktop backdoor. - GigaOM [...]

By: Yet Another Potential Acquisition « Systems Engineering and RDBMS

Yet Another Potential Acquisition « Systems Engineering and RDBMS — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:49:41 +0000

[...] Posted by decipherinfosys on May 30th, 2007 Looks like ebay is all set to acquire StumbleUpon (a social bookmarking discovery service) at the close of business today for close to $75 million. This seems like a weird acquisition but the hypothesis given by Om Malik does seem to make sense – you can read more on that in his blog post – here. [...]

By: GigaOM eBay to announce StumbleUpon buy today «

GigaOM eBay to announce StumbleUpon buy today « — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:22:44 +0000

By: Seo Mumbai » eBay + StumbleUpon

Seo Mumbai » eBay + StumbleUpon — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:53:32 +0000

[...] guru Om Malik over at GigaOm has an interesting hypothesis on eBay’s intentions for this social bookmarking tool: “By marrying the toolbar to a [...]

By: » Here’s two ways eBay could integrate Skype with StumbleUpon | IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband | ZDNet.com

Tue, 22 May 2007 22:35:44 +0000

[...] Om thinks that Web site ratings service StumbleUpon- which supplies users with a toolbar (above) from which they can rate websites- could be integrated with Skype. [...]

By: Discussions of eBay’s $75 million StumbleUpon Bid

Discussions of eBay’s $75 million StumbleUpon Bid — Fri, 11 May 2007 21:42:41 +0000

[...] GigaOM had the first feasible argument: “By marrying the toolbar to Skype client, eBay can do an end run around Google’s dominance of the search business. ” [...]