Last week Yahoo and eBay announced a broad partnership. What’s next? Yesterday a report of Microsoft considering a bid to buy eBay. Keith Regan from E-Commerce Times reports

“Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is considering making a bid to buy eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) , according to a published report, a move that could dramatically alter an e-commerce , Web portal and search space already in a state of flux.”

But why eBay…

“The Post reported that Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates favored eBay over Yahoo as a takeover target because of the technology that eBay would bring to the table, including its PayPal online payment system and its Skype VoIP subsidiary.”

Ok, guess that makes sense.

Read the full post at E-Commerce Times.

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