Buying StumbleUpon: eBay Will Offer New Resources
The largest online auction site eBay is negotiating the purchase of a website for recommendations of Internet resources StumbleUpon.com for $ 75 million, Reuters reported, citing an anonymous source. The success of the negotiations is still unknown; The parties declined to comment on this information.
StumbleUpon is an online resource review site with 2.3 million users. Articles on the site are ranked according to the votes of the participants, who can select two ratings - a clenched fist with a finger up, raising an article in the rating, and a finger down. The site recommends various resources from social networks, including Flickr, MySpace and YouTube.
Articles are sorted by interest categories. Last year, StubleUpon presented a video site that looked for videos that matched the user's interests on the Internet. At the same time, the site received funding in the amount of $ 1.5 million for development from Google director Rama Sriram (Ram Shriram) and other individuals and companies.
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In the next 5 years, the site is counting on self-financing. It is assumed that eBay will use the site for reviews of interesting lots on online auctions. Earlier this year, eBay bought the StubHub sports and entertainment event ticket sales site for $ 307 million.
StumbleUpon is an online resource review site with 2.3 million users. Articles on the site are ranked according to the votes of the participants, who can select two ratings - a clenched fist with a finger up, raising an article in the rating, and a finger down. The site recommends various resources from social networks, including Flickr, MySpace and YouTube.
Articles are sorted by interest categories. Last year, StubleUpon presented a video site that looked for videos that matched the user's interests on the Internet. At the same time, the site received funding in the amount of $ 1.5 million for development from Google director Rama Sriram (Ram Shriram) and other individuals and companies.
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In the next 5 years, the site is counting on self-financing. It is assumed that eBay will use the site for reviews of interesting lots on online auctions. Earlier this year, eBay bought the StubHub sports and entertainment event ticket sales site for $ 307 million.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/8468/
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