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EBay acquires brands4friends for $200 million (eu.techcrunch.com)
16 points by hiteshiitk 5660 days ago
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this certainly means one thing: you can make any stupid term a brand, i mean "brands4friends" come on....
and ebay would buy close to anything, if it's hyped well enough...
some examples please.
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.
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.
may sound cooler if you're in Deutschland or another european country.
no, it doesn't
"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/ .