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	eBay to Buy StumbleUpon Social Networking Site

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4-18-2007 9:04 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0e136ad4-3762-4566-b3ea-e527c53d05d4/35FB5FEE-D3B6-4ED3-8550-E051C16B6757/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/18/ebay-to-buy-stumbleupon/" href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/18/ebay-to-buy-stumbleupon/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.downloadsquad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/18/ebay-to-buy-stumbleupon/"><SPAN id="ppt877386">eBay to buy StumbleUpon</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/04/18/ebay-to-buy-stumbleupon/"><DIV id="877386" class="post"><DIV><A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/18/stumbleupon-signs-term-sheet-to-be-acquired/"><IMG width="250" vspace="16" hspace="4" height="193" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2007/04/stumbleupon.jpg" alt="StumbleUpon" /></A>StumbleUpon has been rumored to be on the market for the last half year or so, and now TechCrunch is reporting eBay <A href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/18/stumbleupon-signs-term-sheet-to-be-acquired/">may have agreed to purchase the social bookmark/website discovery startup</A> for $40-45 million.</DIV><BR /><DIV>StumbleUpon is a rapidly growing service with more than 2 million users already. </DIV><BR /><DIV>According to TechCrunch, Google, eBay, and AOL had all expressed interest in buying StumbleUpon.</DIV><BR />The company provides users with a browser toolbar that lets them rate web sites they visit with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. They can also write reviews of each site. Perhaps the most distinctive feature is the "Stumble!" button that takes viewers to a website rated highly by users with similar interests. It's sort of like channel flipping on a television and only finding programs that your friends have suggested you might like.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35FB5FEE-D3B6-4ED3-8550-E051C16B6757/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>