Friday, February 09, 2007

Clashes of the Internet titans - Microsoft to buy eBay?

According to this news, Microsoft is considering making a bid to buy eBay (How about the joined forces of Yahoo and eBay in the previous entry?) after the initial plan to acquire AOL was backfired when AOL stricking a deal with Google.

The Post reported that Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates favored eBay over Yahoo as a takeover target because of the technology that eBay would bring to the table, including its PayPal online payment system and its Skype VoIP subsidiary.

Read more here.

Questions:
1. How does these development will affect the e-commerce in the next few years and does these benefit the consumer?
2. In the end, which combination will emerge?


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