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Buy it again

6 October 2008 By Jeff Segal

The auctioneer is buying online payment system Bill Me Later for $945m. Investors are still burned by Ebay’s purchase of internet telephony firm Skype. Luckily this is more like its savvy 2002 Paypal deal. It may even help Ebay weather economic hard times.

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