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pcworld.com - 4/14/2009
Investors Buy Back StumbleUpon From EBay - Business Center
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The founders of Web recommendation site StumbleUpon have bought it back from eBay, making the company independent again after nearly two years. StumbleUpon, founded in 2001, is designed to send its users to Web sites based on recommendations by other users. The recommendations are available on ...
stumbleupon.com - 4/13/2009
StumbleUpon is a start-up again!
— stumbleupon.com — After nearly two years as a subsidiary of eBay, today StumbleUpon returns to being an independent company.  ... StumbleUpon is now backed by myself and co-founder Geoff Smith, along with several great investors who’ve backed companies ... (more) StumbleUpon is a start-up again!

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blogs.wsj.com - 4/13/2009
Skype Founders Buyback EBay Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis Ebay Private Equity - Deal Journal
— blogs.wsj.com — A quartet of private-equity firms have joined forces for a leveraged buyout of a global telecommunications firm... with hundreds of millions of users. And no, this isn’t a blog post from 2006. A group including KKR, Warburg Pincus, Providence and ... (more) Skype Founders Buyback EBay Niklas Zennstrom and Janus ...

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Skype to IPO Early Next Year
Wired: Epicenter — ... The news follows by a day word that eBay had sold StumbleUpon back to its owners, and speculation by the New York Times on Saturday that eBay might sell Skype back to its founders as well. The two initiatives clearly herald in a new strategy in the post Meg Whitman era of concentrating on eBay's core retail-oriented businesses. ...

StumbleUpon founders buy back site from eBay
Gadgetell — ... On the eBay blog, the company stated the following in regards to the deal, “As eBay Inc. expands its leadership in online payments and e-commerce, it has become apparent that there are few long-term, strategic synergies between StumbleUpon and the eBay Inc. portfolio.” Now that the site is independent again, it will have the ability to expand and add more services.  The founders hope to see continued growth of the site that was first launched in 2001. Read: [PC World] Full Story » | Written by Heather ...

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