Consumating a long-rumored deal, Internet auctioneer eBay agreed on Wednesday to acquire social bookmarking site StumbleUpon for $75 million.
A bulletproof method for spending hours of time web surfing—5 million recommendations are made daily—StumbleUpon provides users with an easy and community-oriented way of discovering new and unexpected sites.
One blogger argued that StumbleUpon would enable eBay to circumvent search giant Google, by embedding a StumbleUpon search box into its Skype client.
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