EBay Acquiring VeriSign Processing for $370 Million 123
Forum124 was one of the first in a wave of readers to tell us that eBay is acquiring VeriSign's payment processing business for US$370 million. VeriSign will be merged with PayPal and is estimated to generate a 20 percent operating margin which eBay hopes to help offset the recently reported high purchase price of Skype.
Uh-oh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Trust? (Score:5, Funny)
With all these acquisitions, it's risky to (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RTFA - EBay not acquiring VeriSign (Score:5, Funny)
Shame I was looking forward to the browser updates:
Do you trust this certificate?"A++++ excellent certificate, would do secure business with it again!!! "
eBay must have lots of experience with this (Score:4, Funny)
I wonder how many bidders there were in the auction...
CLOSING SOON! Payment processing division of an ENORMOUS leading software company.
Current Bid: US $30,000 (Reserve not met)
Buy It Now price: US $370,000,000
Condition: very good condition
Item Location: Mountain View, CA 94043
Ships to: USA only
Shipping costs: ChUS $39.00 - US Postal Service Priority Mail (within United States)
Please check out my other divisions at http://www.verisign.com/verisign-inc/index.html [verisign.com]
great (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Verisign is teh suck (Score:1, Funny)
Have you ever considered that putting all your eggs into SUCH a critical but easy to lose resource such as a domain name is really REALLY stupid? Did you really have no "plan B", to have a couple of other good (but maybe not QUITE so good) domain names that would allow continuity of business? Even if you didn't lose control of the domains, any kind of major outage or error on your DNS hosting for just a day would have been disastrous!
Of course, you might have been talking about sex.com, in which case, yeah, I'd be pissed off too, and maybe a tad bitter, as that case dragged on for *years*.
This sucks (Score:2, Funny)
I know! Let's merge Google with Yahoo and with Ebay and create:
Gayoogle-Bay !
Bow down and worship this beast. Then let's consolidate all the hosts and ISPs into one blob. Then a global currency and lets all stick microchips that track us everywhere into the lining of our rectums.
ooooh it's the future. ooooooh its like coool duuuuuuuude. What's wrong with you
Great News! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Uh-oh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seriously bad mix (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Uh-oh (Score:2, Funny)
Ebay takes umbrage at the sight of your small torso and weak, flaccid limbs.
Re:email from Verisign CEO Stratton Sclavos (Score:2, Funny)
Dear Lemmings,
It's been great driving us around aimlessly but I think it's about time I cashed out. Thank you.
Sincerly,
the CEO