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EBay Unloads StumbleUpon Recommendation Engine

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 14, 2009 - 8:32am.
San Jose, Calif. - Online auction giant eBay (NASD: EBAY) has sold its StumbleUpon recommendation engine back to its original founders for an undisclosed sum.

eBay Acquires Recommendations Service StumbleUpon for $75 Million

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 30, 2007 - 4:33pm.

San Jose, Calif. - Online auction giant eBay announced on Wednesday that it has acquired StumbleUpon, a service that lets users discover and share websites and online videos, in a deal valued at $75 million.

StumbleUpon Adapts Social Search Service for Nintnedo Wii

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 13, 2007 - 1:23pm.

Calgary, Canada - StumbleUpon, a developer of search technology that recommends sites based on a community of nearly 2 million users' interests, has announced the creation of a new interface designed specifically for the Nintendo Wii. Already available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, the StumbleUpon service now also supports the version of the Opera browser used by the Wii for Internet browsing. The service will allow Wii users to search for Web video content and view it on TV through the game console.