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EBay acquires brands4friends for $200 million

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Re: EBay acquires brands4friends for $200 million

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and ebay would buy close to anything, if it's hyped well enough...

some examples please.

Skype (and to a lesser extent meetup and stumbleupon) are pretty good examples, no? However, Most of the acquisitions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay have made some sense IMO.

Re: EBay acquires brands4friends for $200 million

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

some examples please.

Skype (and to a lesser extent meetup and stumbleupon) are pretty good examples, no? However, Most of the acquisitions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay have made some sense IMO.

hardly a pattern of behavior or the basis for such a characterization. also although it is no longer under ebay's management i suspect that skype has the possibility to become an incredibly awesome company.