Ebay buys PayPal 181
mdahlman was among several readers who submitted the story that
eBay has
bought Paypal in a deal worth $1.5B in stock. The article is mostly
numbers and money related stuff, but it also briefly mentions some of
the controversy surrounding eBay.
Maybe..... (Score:5, Funny)
The real question is... (Score:1, Funny)
Do I hear 1.5 billion? Going once, twice... (Score:4, Funny)
Better call the FBI (Score:5, Funny)
Better luck next time, eBay! They probably should have bought PayPal through an escrow service...
Re:Well.. (Score:1, Funny)
from the article (Score:5, Funny)
Is it just me... (Score:5, Funny)
PayPal for sale (Score:3, Funny)
Hope they read the add... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Smart Move for Ebay, bad for paypal people. (Score:4, Funny)
This has already happened. Richard Stallman, shortly after the story broke, announced the creation of GnuPal [gnu.org], citing the need for an free (free to use, anyway) payment system. It will be deployed using the DotGNU [gnu.org] web services platform.
It was amost mine (Score:5, Funny)