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Tom.com to buyout eBay China, PayPal

Tags: eBay + China + Tom.com + Tom Group + PayPal + Eachnet + Alibaba + Taobao

LuBo
Posted by LuBo 1 year 9 months ago

Tom.com is going to announce its takeover of eBay's China division and its PayPal service, the 21st Century Business Herald reported today, citing a well-informed source.

Tom Group is the distributor of Skype, eBay's online telephone service in China.

According to the previous agreement between eBay and Eachnet, eBay will sell its shares to the company before withdrawing from the Chinese market.

In March 2003, eBay bought one third of Eachnet's stake by paying US$30 million, while Eachnet accounted for over 90 percent of China's C2C...

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eBay’s China Syndrome

Tags: eBay + China + Meg Whitman + Taobao + Alibaba + Tencent

Kevom
Posted by Kevom 1 year 11 months ago; via gigaom.com/2006/07/24/eba...

EBay customers are upset over San Jose, Calif.-based auction giant’s decision to stop charging users in China transaction fees, mostly because of intensified competition from Taobao (Alibaba) and Tencent, at a time when they are being hit by price hikes as high as 400%.

During a recent earnings conference call, eBay CEO Meg Whitman said, ” What I can tell you is that while I think we are behind a tad in China, we have been steadily improving our performance over the last 12 months.”

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