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IdentityMind Global Appoints Business-Tech Vet To Board

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. “IdentityMind Global has a unique approach to bringing integrity back to digital marketplaces and the online lending environment through the use of trusted digital identities” Zander said in a company news release. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems until June 2002.

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eBay/PayPal: What Everyone Missed

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Back then, only the very, very large merchants had merchant accounts and could accept credit card payments online. They looked around for places that had a large concentration of senders and receivers online and a use case for payments that needed a digital upgrade. Three years later, in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5

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Wayfair And Building For What’s Next In Commerce

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Selling furniture online isn’t easy work — though the team at Boston-based Wayfair might make it appear otherwise. Through it can seem like a foregone conclusion today, when people routinely buy cars on the web, in 2002 — when Wayfair was founded in the ashes of the tech bubble having burst — there were doubters.

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Infographic: Microsoft’s Biggest Acquisitions

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Github ($7.5B, 2018) is a source code management platform. Mojang ($2.5B, 2014) is the maker of the popular online game Minecraft, which has sold at least 144 million copies across numerous platforms and is the second best-selling game of all time (behind only Tetris ). Read more about Microsoft’s gaming acquisitions here.

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Facebook And Dating: It’s (Not) Complicated

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Before online matchmaking intermediaries like Match.com and Tinder tried their hand at increasing those odds, there was Frigyes Karinthy , SixDegrees, Friendster, not to mention village matchmakers. The basic idea occurred about seven decades before the first online social networks. That does make it seem kinda hard.

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. Four years later, in 2002, eBay announced that it would buy PayPal for $1.5 In September of that year, eBay went public.

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Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business

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Walmart first purchase Seiyu in 2002, but has faced difficulties gaining traction in the extraordinarily challenging Japanese market. When you look at the list of failures by foreign retailers in Japan, it is quite tough to imagine bringing in someone to manage a great turnaround story for Seiyu.

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