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Forbes Column: eBay’s Bounce-Back Opportunity

Tuesday, January 22, 2008 | No comments

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Meg Whitman is finally leaving eBay.

My Forbes column, eBay’s Bounce-Back Opportunity, discusses what the successor needs to pay attention to,
whether it is John Donahoe or otherwise.

We have also discussed eBay’s strategy at length in Web 3.0 and eBay and eBay vs Amazon.

Today, the determining factor in the eBay vs Amazon debate is Jeff Bezos. But what if eBay got itself a really good CEO?

This segment is part 4 in a running series
Jump to part: Connecting With Your Intimate Bot, The Gap in Google's Defenses, A Recession-Proof Corner of the Tech Sector, eBay's Bounce-Back Opportunity, How To Dig Out Yahoo's Treasures, The Microsoft-Yahoo! Battle Plan, What Microsoft Should Do While Yahoo! Dithers, The Next VMWare, The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur, The Coming Death of Indian Outsourcing , India - Cash Rich, Product Poor, How to Save the World's Back Office, Latin America's eCommerce Leader, The Next Indo-China War, The Real VCs of Silicon Valley, Fund Envy, Bootstrap Yourself, The Coming Convergence, Lighting The Way In India, Hydro-Alchemy, How Amazon Could Change Publishing, A Technological Fix For Education, How Technology Can Save Retailers, Mobile Microfinance, How To Heat Up Solar, How Chip Toolmakers Can Survive, Kill The Business Trip

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