http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/07/ebay-stumbleupon-wheres-the-strategic-fit/ A Canadian Take on the Web Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:01:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/10/07/ebay-stumbleupon-wheres-the-strategic-fit/#comment-7057 blognation Canada » Blog Archive » Commentary on StumbleUpon, eBay and Skype Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:17:39 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/10/07/ebay-stumbleupon-wheres-the-strategic-fit/#comment-7057 [...] At the end of the day, eBay’s decision to buy StumbleUpon may be grounded in the same strategic reasoning that it bought Skype: to keep it out of the hands of Google. While eBay-StumbleUpon makes little strategic sense, Google-StumbleUpon makes a lot of sense. If Google had acquired StumbleUpon, there would have been three options underneath the search box: Google Search, I’m Feeling Lucky and StumbleUpon. Source: Mark Evans Tech [...] [...] At the end of the day, eBay’s decision to buy StumbleUpon may be grounded in the same strategic reasoning that it bought Skype: to keep it out of the hands of Google. While eBay-StumbleUpon makes little strategic sense, Google-StumbleUpon makes a lot of sense. If Google had acquired StumbleUpon, there would have been three options underneath the search box: Google Search, I’m Feeling Lucky and StumbleUpon. Source: Mark Evans Tech [...]

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