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Ebay to Acquire PayPal

July 8, 2002

Today, Ebay announced that it will acquire Pay­pal for $1.5 bil­lion in stock. The acqui­si­tion makes sense as it merges two suc­cess­ful Inter­net busi­nesses and turns the online auc­tion­eer into an end to end shop for online trans­ac­tion. Siz­ing up the busi­nesses Ebay is pri­mar­ily in the auc­tion busi­ness. Every­day, mil­lions of peo­ple buy and […]

The Convergence Game

November 18, 2001

This week, Microsoft launched the Xbox, a new gam­ing sys­tem that takes the Red­mond giant into another mar­ket. Today, Nin­tendo is unveil­ing the Game­Cube, their new entry in a bat­tle they have fought with Sony for many years. With these new gam­ing sta­tions enter­ing the mar­ket, a new war is start­ing and in the end, it is a war […]

Boo.com Goes Bust

May 19, 2000

As many of you may have heard already, Boo, the com­pany for which I used to work, has closed its doors. I’ve been look­ing at the press cov­er­age and it seems that some of the cov­er­age does not work out. For starters, Boo.com’s fail­ure is not an exam­ple of why B2C E-commerce will fail, it’s an example […]