> What is ebay thinking?
Impressive back-end tech (the recommendation engine) that can now process millions and millions of items on eBay to help increase sales (something like a quarter of Amazon's sales come from recommendations).
Impressive back-end tech (the recommendation engine) that can now process millions and millions of items on eBay to help increase sales (something like a quarter of Amazon's sales come from recommendations).
Netflix had their own and paid a million dollars as prize payout for an absolutely state of the art system.
If it really was just a tech acquisition they massively overpaid.
At scale it is. More here:
http://www.quora.com/Hunch/Is-Hunch-actually-doing-anything-... (this one got a vote from one of the founders)
Obviously eBay must see other reasons for the acquisition than just the tech itself.
Also, if it's also in large part a talent acquisition then they're going to paying more than 80 million since they're going to need to pay for some new pairs of golden handcuffs to keep the talent around.