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EBay acquires brands4friends for $200 million (eu.techcrunch.com)
16 points by hiteshiitk 5660 days ago
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franze 5660 days ago
this certainly means one thing: you can make any stupid term a brand, i mean "brands4friends" come on....
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dotcoma 5660 days ago
and ebay would buy close to anything, if it's hyped well enough...
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zackattack 5660 days ago
some examples please.
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bcn 5659 days ago
Skype (and to a lesser extent meetup and stumbleupon) are pretty good examples, no? However, Most of the acquisitions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_eBay have made some sense IMO.
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zackattack 5659 days ago
hardly a pattern of behavior or the basis for such a characterization. also although it is no longer under ebay's management i suspect that skype has the possibility to become an incredibly awesome company.
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zackattack 5660 days ago
may sound cooler if you're in Deutschland or another european country.
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franze 5659 days ago
no, it doesn't
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mleonhard 5659 days ago
"Brands4friends is an online shop selling remainders of high quality brand name goods of the fashion industry to end users through a series of consecutive, temporary sales auctions."

Sounds like a European version of Gilt Groupe, http://www.gilt.com/ .

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