（速報） ネットオークション世界最大手の米eBayが、ショッピング検索 Shopping.com を買収した。買収金額は6億2,000万ドル。
EBay Agrees to Acquire Shopping.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111766137860748552,00.html
***A Message from Bill Cobb***
June 01, 2005 | 03:00PM PST/PT
To Our Community:
I'm excited to let you know that eBay plans to acquire Shopping.com (www.shopping.com), a leader in online comparison shopping and consumer reviews.
Many of you have been evolving your businesses on the Internet and we want to continue to help you succeed. We also recognize that more eBay sellers are starting to have success with in-season products. This acquisition will give you, our sellers, a new sales channel and access to a new set of buyers. Shopping on Shopping.com will be enhanced by the addition of eBay's listings to the product selection already available on the site.
Shopping.com also provides consumer-generated product and merchant reviews on Epinions (www.epinions.com). We've been hearing from eBay buyers that product reviews would help you make better buying decisions. Epinions is complementary to eBay's community-driven marketplace; there are currently more than a million consumer product reviews available to Epinions and Shopping.com users.
As you may know, the acquisition is subject to regulatory and Shopping.com shareholder approvals. We expect our acquisition of Shopping.com to close in the third quarter of 2005. We will work with the Shopping.com team to refine plans as the deal closes. We'll make sure to keep you informed. Stay tuned!
Sincerely,
Bill Cobb
President, eBay North America
