Comments on: Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Defends Skype Buy

By: Economics 101 According To Meg Whitman « The Conservative Lie

Economics 101 According To Meg Whitman « The Conservative Lie — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:26:57 +0000

[...] a free of charge peer-to-peer, voice over ip phone company and then not knowing what to do with it. No one (in their right mind) would do that… right? Nor would anyone be foolish enough to buy the company but not the technology. [...]

By: ets

ets — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:29:33 +0000

On the other hand just imagine, you’re CEO of a biz that generates cash and is not growing. Board is asking you why is that money sleeping in bank, you hardly see any related business you can buy… And voila, tall guy steps in, he has well known brand, some growth, and most importantly he agrees to pocket big part of your sleeping cash…

By: IhateEBAYsRULES

IhateEBAYsRULES — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:21:41 +0000

Ebay has to be stopped before they get more ahead. It is LUDICRIS how Ebay removes listings without first checking for proof on whether or not something is real or fake…

By: NYM Arts

NYM Arts — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:10:29 +0000

NutMeg !

By: From the Department of Oh No, She Didn’t: Whitman Defends eBay’s Skype Debacle | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:30:25 +0000

[...] Om Malik reports on GigaOm, Whitman–who is trying to nab the Republican gubernatorial nomination for [...]

By: Cable Digital News - Contentinople - Former eBay CEO Defends Skype Buy

Cable Digital News - Contentinople - Former eBay CEO Defends Skype Buy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:25:05 +0000

[...] kept a portion, and got almost all the money back, and I think Skype will be very effective." GigaOm's Om Malik is skeptical, however, writing, "I commend her for riding the eBay rocket ship, but when it comes to Skype, we [...]

By: Justin Gibbs (justingibbs) 's status on Wednesday, 11-Nov-09 15:23:47 UTC - Identi.ca

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:23:51 +0000

[...] http://gigaom.com/2009/11/10/whitman-on-skype/ a few seconds ago from web [...]

By: Rodolfo

Rodolfo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:59:43 +0000

The acquisition of Skype was dubious if not fraudulent. I remember getting the shareholders slide deck, full of wishful thinking and no mention of the fact that they were buying just a brand and not the underlying tech (Joltid). I still find amazing that they got away with it.

By: QOTD | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

QOTD | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:40:47 +0000

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By: fruity

fruity — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:10:50 +0000

Actually, Meg didn’t want to buy Paypal. When Wells Fargo pulled out and went to Paypal she had no other choice. And she’s a 10 year politican, she worked Congress to not regulate for years through ebay. Every single one of those Senators and Congressman are spooked because they know how many small business sellers are in their states. Every time there’s regulation, what happens. Send the innocents to do your dirty work. Just because you dont see her vote and she has limited contributions doesn’t mean she’s not the person of privilege over there on the hill.

If you really want to make her cringe, ask her how she can sleep at night knowing the Mom & Pops she paraded in front of Congress where the ones she sold up the river for big retailers. Because of her close to tens of thousands of small businesses got squeezed off of ebay.

Its absurd that she’s saying she created jobs for those millions of small businesses. She ran that place like a sweatshop. Even more baffling is yet again, those sellers matter the least.

What Meg does is she takes credit for the hard work of others and she blames others when she makes poor decisions.

Steve Poizner can put her out of her misery over night. All he has to do is open up the airwaves. Put out the message and let the ebay sellers give their “feedback”
Then you can see what the reign of meg was like